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Well let me lay it on you hero im a 44 year veteran of trucking. I've done that many many times. I haul with my kenworth. So go tell someone who is ignorant.

The diesel pickups have a factory B5 rating at 500k A semi has a B10 rating at 1 million miles

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@@thomaswilson8634 good luck with that B5 rating pulling heavy weight all the time with that “ENGINE” ! LOL. Keep believing all the manufacturer’s ratings and you’ll be disappointed there Mr. tough guy expert !!

@@BigTruckRVLife Sounds like you are wanting to be the smart ass. I simply stated a industry fact.

@@thomaswilson8634 industry facts are baloney!! Obviously you have zero experience doing anything practical if you believe in anything written by big companies as standards!! I was in business for 32 years, had over 400 employees, owned hundreds of tractors and trailers, pickups, and all kinds of excavation equipment. I was directly involved (hands dirty) in the maintenance, repairs, and overhauling of all of it before selling the two companies and retiring at the age of 57. It irritates someone like me when a person like you starts spewing out supposed industry standards that are not reality!! Keep believing all that written stuff about equipment and you’ll be pretty disappointed when you own and work on hundreds of pieces of equipment!! Enjoying my very comfortable retirement here!!! Good luck and ✌️.

Not to burst your bubble but I was a truck driver for 36 years and I stand by what I say! It is clearly too much truck for this set up! I’m not saying he shouldn’t use a MDT at all! He has one too many axles and only needs one drive axle which will save on the total length! This truck will outlast the Ram or any diesel pickup! Believe me there are ways to make your MDT suck pickups up the tailpipe but that’s not his real problem and that’s what I’m trying to help him with! I wouldn’t even consider a twin screw for this job! Knowing the terrain I was only suggesting that he get on the flat hard ground before hooking everything together! Damage to a 5th wheel is not cheap! Then we get to brakes, the air brakes could be a problem at anytime that hard braking is required because the truck has a much better braking system than the trailer or trailers and can cause a catastrophe because of their efficiency compared to electric or hydraulic brakes! The trick about going downhill is to keep your speed down with the engine and trans and not have to use your brakes only sparingly! The MDT is better for that because of the engine compression too! All that being said it’s too much truck for this job!

44 year trucker here just retired. Keep doing what ur doing. Im retired now last month and will be pulling my drv mobile suites with my kenworth with a razor behind it.

36 years . Interesting. You must be kinda slow in the head or your elevator doesn't go all the way up. 44 years here trucking. He is doing it the right way same as I do. Quit getting on these channels and try to influence people when you obviously do not know what you are talking about. Just saying.

Thank you!! Hope you’re doing well!

A semi will stop the trailer coming down a hill if the trailer brakes fail, the Ram will not.

Yes it was!

When we had this setup we ran a suspension gooseneck ball, we did not use the commercial fifth wheel.

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thank you!!!

So glad you found us! We do some odds and ends stuff to make a little money but mostly just traveling to enjoy ourselves while we're young!

I believe we were in Arizona

HP is torque X rpm. So no he doesn’t have twice the torque. He probably has twice the gears though.

I saw a rig similar to yours there about a month ago and they had plenty of room. If you plan on doing laundry there, it will take a while. Only about half of their machines work.

no issues at all. made it ourselves though. we had like 40 bucks into it

Nailed it

right?!?

This truck was a C15 single turbo, rated at 475… witch was fine for the weight, yeah I always wish I had more power. Contemplated turning it up. The BIG BIG downfall of this truck was it was only a 10 speed. So you could never be in the right gear well climbing is what it felt like.

And yes singled is what we wanted. But we didn’t end up having the truck long enough

definitely hesitant to put them out now lol

😉 agreed

A semi will stop the trailer coming down a hill if the trailer brakes fail, the Ram will not.

We did end up going back to a truck chassis, the cat needed to be turned up for sure. And it needed a 13 or 18 speed, 10 speed was not cutting it