66dc75

66DC75, on the subject of single axle tractors, before the steel industry went offshore in the early 80's, there were guys hauling big coils out of Homestead, and the other Pittsburgh mills with single axle gas jobs and 2 or 3 axle spread trailers. One Chevy I knew of was a 427 with a 5 and 2 speed axle.A tractor like this weighed 10000 lb or less and could legally haul a 50000 single coil! Any single over 40000 lb was automatically a permit load anyway. Most of these ran local,mill to mill and sometimes as far as Cleveland. These loads paid outrageously high rates,and many otr drivers in their high dollar Pete's and KW's were unaware of what these dudes were earning!,and made fun of their cheap little gas jobs that only lasted 100000miles! Of course they just took the abuse and went to the bank!!