hey drew, that was the intent of my query, if white can pull that amount of weight, albeit only forty miles and no problems, that answers truss's q' about the weight he was talking about,(27,500) and my known weight which will run upwards of 28,000, truck and fiver, i'm very prone to taking care of my tranny, but **** can happen, and murphy follows me like the plague.

my other q', otr trucks, is that over the road, and isb trucks what is that.

 

D.O.T would have loved you that day..

 

wow, really, seriously... wow.

 

My trailer has farm tags--that might have kept DOT off my rear??????????????????????????????

 

well my best is
truck 9800
trailer 3200
structure of steel beams 11000
24kbls
and it was really smooth but i didnty tryed 50k like white did :P
o yeah i forgot,last year i move my father in law trailer for its 12'wheelers for about 1/4 miles no more but whit a Caterpilar excavator loaded on it,
i dunno but near 35k whit around 7k of trailer
i strapped it the beasty bumper whit big chain...had to put boom behind else the rear bumper was touching ground due to longbed :P
engine was sotck back then so i was near flooring it to make this move

no way id try this for 40miles lol

 

yeah otr is over the road or on the road trucks, and that basically refers to semi's. And ISB is what your 5.9 Cummins is. Cummins uses that system to identify their engines. Next size up from the ISB is the ISC which is an 8.3L. Then you have the ISL at 8.9L or 10L, ISM at 10.8L, and the ISX at 14.9L. And of course as the displacement goes up, so do the power ratings-the ISX has up to 565hp and 1850lb/ft of torque!

 

hey jr, thanks to you, i just keep learning all the time, take care.

 

no problem bro

 

heaviest I have towed is a 5klb +scissor lift and trailer.

previous owner towed? ..unknown....

 

Dunno where yall live or what your local laws are, but here in CA, you gotta have a commercial licence for a GCVW of over 26k lbs. With that said...Our service truck (01 3500 ctd cab n chassis) weighs in at 11k lbs with all my supplies loaded in it (I'm an equipment mechanic), our trailer weighs in at 2500k lbs and the excavator I hauled weighs in at 12k lbs for a grand total of 24,500 lbs. barely under weight. My 2500 CTD hasn't towed anything yet (got it a month ago) but my old 2500 V8 gasser towed the same excavator on the same trailer at a hole 15 mph goin uphill in first gear, damn gas engines