Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Balrog006
Conventional trucks can’t climb a 5% grade at anything more than 45mph????
Yeah, not sure what the benchmark for that is
I was passed by a tandem log truck going uphill at 75Mph easily with a big old Meow Meow under the hood, and this was the late 90's
Trucks must be different in Canada, here when you're in the hills you'd be amazed to find one going even anywhere close to 45 mph, they're the slowest things ever.
Your typical fleet-owned wheezer would be like that, but many of the O/O rigs have some pretty decent power under the hood. The log boys were known to go even further than that, because the guy that got the logs out of the bush and to the mill first, could turn around and do it again, and subsequently make more money. I saw this same truck pull one of the front wheels off the ground accelerating out of the parking lot, it was a bumble-bee yellow Western Star day cab with a 600 CAT under the hood that was "warmed over a bit" according to the owner.
Now of course that truck isn't "average" but I've seen quite a few nice looking Pete's and Kennies pulling hills at speed no problem. The O/O's tend to option them out a lot better in the power department than your typical fleet.