Yep, I know a little about overloaded trucks- - - - - -my grandfather was hauling beer from Milwaukee and St. Louis to Nashville on 33 and 34 Chevy tractor-trailer rigs after Prohibition was repealed, as well as running a fleet of coal and ice delivery trucks, and a few dump trucks on runway construction jobs during WW II. The beer haulers had mechanical brakes on the tractors, and NO brakes on the trailers! One particular hill in Kentucky was a favorite spot for the local sheriff to set up his portable truck scales. If a truck had to go down to granny gear to make the hill he would stop it at the top and weigh it for an overload. The 33 model rig would out-pull the 34, so it got the overload. They sent the legally-loaded rig struggling up the hill first, pulling hard, and while it was getting weighed, the overload sailed by in second gear! BTW, this was long before the days of auxiliary transmissions- - - -they did it all with crash box 4-speeds and really low-ratio rear end gears!
Jerry
Last edited by Hotrod Lincoln; 04/11/2011 9:35 PM.
