Re: GMC C6500 Dump Truck

Posted by Dr.EVIL on June 12, 2006 at 11:40:19 from (216.136.115.250):

In Reply to: GMC C6500 Dump Truck posted by Tweeter on June 11, 2006 at 19:23:37:

The township road commissioner I used to work for used Chevy C65's, the Chevy version of the GMC 6500. He had a '67 and I think it was a '74....There were MANY options available as far as transmissions, axle capacities, etc. As long as this truck has some of the good parts (5 spoke cast steel wheels as opposed to steel discs, or Dayton's as opposed to BUDD's) and the truck was geared correctly for the way it was used and not abused they can do a good job and hold up. The Township plowed snow with both these trucks with 14 ft angle plows or 12 ft V-plows.....and the '67 ended up under a Krause chip/sand spreader box and I weighed a load of chips once.....I was pushing 24,000# on a single axle rated 33,000# gross. The '74 dumptruck had lower numerical axle ratios and was a much better road truck but it sure paid the price in pulling power. My normal load with that truck was 16,000# net..... but I did turn in a couple scale tickets for 18,000-19,000# when the loader operator got a little carried away!

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