SMITTY wrote:Can one fit in your driveway? Too many variables..... driver skill being first & foremost.
With a single-axle day cab, I could snake a 53 footer in a driveway from a normal 2-lane state highway without touching any curbs or dirt.
A New-England backroad (paved cowpath) with wires 12' high, tree limbs hanging everywhere & narrow entrance (I.E. between mailbox & stonewall) to driveway is gonna be a challenge -- all depends on how ballsy the driver is & if HE owns the equipment.....or the COMPANY owns it -- there will be a big difference there in what he's willing to do!
SMITTY, how much would/could you be hauling in that 53 footer pulled by the single axle day cab? More than 20ton?
I have had 50ft box trailers backed up into my driveway, many times. To be honest, I could not tell you if the tractors were single or double axled. BUT, as many tractor trailers that have been in my driveway, I have had an equal number of drivers who refused to back into it.
We are in farm country. Low traffic. Its a County road, paved, one lane in each direction, maybe 1 or 2 feet of road to the right of white line, no curbing, bordered by 3 ft open ditch on both sides. Driveway is level with road surface, normal driveway width (12 - 15ft), no walls or obstacles other than ditch at both sides of driveway entrance. Mailbox is not close to driveway. If you hit the mailbox, you have alot more problems with the ditch you just drove into, than with the mailbox
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Only overhead obstacle is a 60ft Ash, leaning from one side of driveway, to other side. A tandem-axle dump, and a 10yard cement truck have driven under it. Unless this last wind storm made it lean more, its not an issue. (When it falls, it will be in my fireplace heating the house, NEXT winter).
Chris F.