Originally Posted By: dustyroads
Not familiar with the Chinese trucks but I'm assuming they're heavily loaded up front. Here, we have twin steers with heavy haul trucks in some applications but I've never seen a Chinese truck.
Yea that's the word! Twin steer. I commonly saw Chinese semi trucks as twin steer up front, but still a single axle in the back. Alot of times I would even see standard single rear axle + single front axle trucks hauling seemingly the same if not more weight with this setup vs a typical North American truck with twin rear axles. That's why I'm wondering if maybe North American trucks are just over-designed due to our safety regulations or how we rate our vehicles?
Not familiar with the Chinese trucks but I'm assuming they're heavily loaded up front. Here, we have twin steers with heavy haul trucks in some applications but I've never seen a Chinese truck.
Yea that's the word! Twin steer. I commonly saw Chinese semi trucks as twin steer up front, but still a single axle in the back. Alot of times I would even see standard single rear axle + single front axle trucks hauling seemingly the same if not more weight with this setup vs a typical North American truck with twin rear axles. That's why I'm wondering if maybe North American trucks are just over-designed due to our safety regulations or how we rate our vehicles?