@maledettoGT If you have boggie (3rd axle) rear axle you can take a higer load, more tonns, and when needed you can raise the boggie axle for better traction. If the wheight on the axle is to high you have a switch to force the axle up and then get more wheigt on the drive wheels.
I don't know about that. I assumed that they usually used 6x2 because they savings in cost, complexity and economy during the 99% of the time when you're not driving in deep snow (and without a load!). Weight can only do so much for traction, and having a second set of driving wheels ALWAYS helps, even if one set does 75% of the work. An AWD car has most weight on the front, but having the rear wheels driving makes a HUGE difference in snow traction. But I'm no trucker.
Huh? What makes you say that? There chains are hooked to reinforced points on the truck, and they weren't shocking the tow cable. It seems to me that there was just too much weight, snow, and poor traction. The truck may have been left the reinforced road and become bogged in soft earth.
Last I knew it only took a couple minutes to put on chains. And the school buses and fire trucks around here are all equipped with automatic tire chains. Even with conventional chains, you don't need winter tires. Just chains, and only if it looks like you might need them. I guess you'd just have to add up the costs of the chains and the lost income from missing a day(s) of work and decide whether it makes sense for you.
That's because we get it so rarely, it makes more economic and time saving sense to just have a day off work and suffer a few hours stuck in traffic (or staying overnight at the first hotel you can find) than to bother spending hundreds of pounds buying winter/studded tyres and/or snow chains, not to mention the time to fit the tyres or time to keep fitting and removing the chains when moving between snowbound and cleared roads If we were 50cm deep for 2 solid months or more itd make more sense
Pusher, usch. Can't tell how much I hate that stuff, was to the russian border in Finland some days ago. Nearly slicks with a pusher, It's quite good roads there, just some centimetres of snow, enough to have problem in every fucking hill. Was in Norway to Ål the same day as the first snow came in October this year with the same truck. Remember how I heard on the radio about snow in Bergen closing in to Oslo and having a bad feeling going back empty to Sweden with that truck
@B757204 well, i'm not british but i will guess that teh tires in england and generally driving knowlegde is a bit different then here. but thats just a guess...
@mrnjutto Sorry to say that but I have been driving exactly this 'fucking pusher' and it wasn't all THAT bad to get along. After all it went on the tiniest side-roads to load on farms summer and winter and did well for quite a few years.....And on this farm where the movie was made even a boggie would have gotten stuck that day.
hmhh yes cause chains are immensely expensive first of all.. (no their not..) and you have to fit them on snow tires (not true), and you will go bankrupt trying to fit them during the 10 minute time lapse it takes.. (probably not). there is no other alternative to regular snow chains, yes(mita snow chains.. can drive with them on cleared roads) it is also such a thing as all season tires which are usable all seasons.. Duhh
Telefonkatalogen Yes it is, when I was younger and fitter (thinner) and I could drive to the snow, put on chains, drive to the chalet. Ski. Come home and not have to deal with it. Putting on boots, taking off boots, drying rooms etc etc . Exhausting.
