My $.02.
You brought the tension and therefore you need to resolve it. Brian (Sydwayz) merely posted a pic and stated his opinion that DRW was a better tow vehicle. Apparently in other threads you've stated that you think SRW are just as good (or better?). You called him out in this thread, only then did he tell you to "take a pill". Re-read all his posts before yours and take a second look at the order of info posted here. If anything nearly everyone BUT Brian made jokes about SRW trucks. The burden of resolution is on you.

BTW: I know Brian and believe both of you want what you feel is best for others. You guys would have no problem sitting at the bar for a drink or 2.

I dropped the Xanax comment to relieve some perceived offense. But I didn't get cross or use four letter words with anyone.

First pair of beers is on me. --o--

Thanks man! I know its all good and sorry you took the blunt of my fustration that many others on lots of threads have given me.

I have posted some pics of my truck pulling heavy here.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/t...installed.html
Not to start a new debate on DRW vs SRW. Just sharing cool pics.

That's funny as hell!

Everyone just needs to relax about the SRW vs DRW, thank God we live in a country where you can make enough money to be able to choose either of them. In some countries all they have is the rim to ride on, no tire!

There are so many of the Freightliner sport chassis running around now pulling boats, horse trailers, race cars, etc and many are SRW Super Singles - how do you DRW'ers feel about those?

I can give my thoughts but would like to hear how you all view them because I believe the carrying capcity of those is greater than that of your dually so.....?

Dude, you pull some nice cars.


The freightliner is a whole different animal.

As for this constant DRW ver. SRW, I don't get it. As a engineer I look at it simply if you are talking Light duty PICKUP trucks, the rating for both conventional and 5th/ goose neck is higher for the DRW,,,, currently.

If you are using one of these type of trucks as a primary tow vehicle, would you not use the one rated to pull/haul the most? Will this change, seems like it may judging from the comments on commercial truck direction, but right now if you want to buy a pickup rated to tow the most from any of the big three it will be a DRW. Does that mean everyone needs one, of course not.

Tow at your rated load or under, what ever type of truck (SRW, DRW) no big deal.

Man, the next thread will have to be my dad can beat up your dad!

It would have never happened in a Ford.

BTW Brian is a D***

I'll allow it as long as I still get to hang out with your wife!

I dont know why you chimed in.......your always complaining about your Ford. How was Fl, by the way?

Thank god that little spat is over!

I will answer with NO you would not use the one rated for more. You know over the road legal limit is 80,000lbs and to do that you need a twin screw tractor and a tamden axle trailer, right?

Case in point my old company hauled clothing, very light loads hardly over 65,000 gross ever. We had both single and twin axle sleeper cabs and the for lack of a better word "roadability" of the single axle was far greater than that of the twin screw because without enough weight on all those tires they had very little traction. People on here mention a dually is bad in rain, bad in snow and they have to put extra weight in it. Think about that you need to add weight to compress the tires to allow them to displace the rain covered road and allow water to be channeled into the rain grooves of the tires. Without the weight the tires skim above the water and do not displace it.

If single axle was soo good then why did we have both? Because we hauled 100% clothing to the West Coast and 25% clothing going back East. The non-clothing backhauls were usally very heavy nuts, fruits in reefers and we had to be able to get the trucks back East so we compermised with more twin screw trucks to get faster backhauls.

I will tell you when you look across the thousands of vehicles we had that tire wear on the tractors although good because 50% of the miles were light it was very choppy, lots of irregular edge wear and the trailers were really bad all of this according to Goodyear and Michilen can be traced back to not enough weight to compress the sidewalls the way they were designed to be.

Yes, you can let some air out but when a driver hooks to a trailer he loads it and goes. Our operation was the highest mileage per year fleet operation in the US, we were given trucks, engines, trans, rears, u-joints, etc, etc every month to test - the trucks averaged 240,000 miles per year and for a fleet that is insane!

So again, if not going to be using the added capcity of a DRW then you are not getting out it what you can and are actually putting yourself at more risk most of the time than the safety you feel you gain by the DRW preventing whatever you think will happen because of a blowout or something.

I will make anyone an offer that lives near NJ, you call my cell 732-718-2711 if you have stability problems with your trailer and I will help you get to the root cause, most will be balance more than anything.

Joe Gere