double B semitrailers?

[puca]

hi, i didnt saw any picture with double B semitrailers and so on... will there we any? lots of american truks uses these combination.
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2007/dibujove0.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dibujove0.jpg)

[bigbubba467]

hi, i didnt saw any picture with double B semitrailers and so on... will there we any? lots of american truks uses these combination.
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2007/dibujove0.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dibujove0.jpg)

I believe i know this answer but i can be wrong. There is no double,triples/quad trucks. Unless they make a patch with these trailers then i would believe no. If i am wrong evgeny will know.

[fellowpigeon]

yes i think you are right i think i remember reading somewhere about that, that they wont be included in the final game.

[GinXeng]

America dont use those kind of doubles they use A's.

[bigbubba467]

America dont use those kind of doubles they use A's.
That must be only USA because i see quite a few in canada. I even passed one this morning coming it to work.

bigbubba467

[puca]

America dont use those kind of doubles they use A's.
are you sure? and the logging trucks? they uses two semitrailes, somethimes the last one with a dolly or not?
It is a pity, only with simple semitrailers... :(

[GinXeng]

Nope we dont have that kind here.

[KENWORTH]

there is some double trailer logging trucks in usa i seen one at the truckstop today

[GargantulaKon]

America dont use those kind of doubles they use A's.
Watkins Motor Lines, Inc. (Now Fedex LTL) used those double trailers all the time in Pennsylvania. I used to work there. I do not know if it is the same type, but they used some type of double trailer, GinXeng.

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/macneil/2004/mar/mar23/watkins_t2.jpg

[GinXeng]

Maybe you guys dont know I'm talking about, I'm not saying America dont use doubles, I am saying america dont use the kind of double that puca posted for regular loads. We use the kind like the one in the watkins picture.

[GargantulaKon]

Oh, okay then I was right that the type of double trailers are different. Got it now. :wink:

[puca]

ok, the staff said that the trucks will be the same that are circulating in that area, that incluides for the semitrailers like this?

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/macneil/2004/mar/mar23/watkins_t2.jpg[/quote]

PD: nice picture

[KENWORTH]

u mean like in this pic if so like this swift has some trucks like this

http://www.sealand.uk.com/images/double.jpg

[Flagman_20]

I think he doesn't mean that. I think he means double trailers like seen in 18WoS Haulin

[GargantulaKon]

Like this?
http://666kb.com/i/am40wy7c26zujjr70.jpg

[puca]

like this ones, is this a used combination in america?

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/9620/98850231ay8.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=98850231ay8.jpg)
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/5194/66104969pc9.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=66104969pc9.jpg)

[polarexpress17]

ok, let me ask you have you ever seen a picture of an american truck with that kind of trailer setup?

no you havn't

kthxbye

[puca]

ok, let me ask you have you ever seen a picture of an american truck with that kind of trailer setup?

no you havn't

kthxbye
american trucks with that trailer setup, yes, if it was working in america i have no idea, thats why am asking...

[Ron Falco]

in America, we use what we call a "dolly."

http://www.bdasites.com/SwampHollyShop/assets/product_images/100164_b.JPG
It's the little wheel-axle set between the 2 trailers.
(best pic I could find)

[KENWORTH]

yeah we do have trailers like that but u rarely see them abf yellow and so on

[DANE]

^^^ depends on where you spend you time in america. here in western pa, there are a ton of them. don't forget fed ex and ups

[GargantulaKon]

That would be so cool to drive a double trailer truck in real life, but I can settle for doing it virtually. :P

[digit]

That picture puca has there is of an Australian B-double. The picture has been cut off and you can't see the third axle. These trailers wont be in the game :wink:

[GargantulaKon]

Awww :( , a patch to add the feature in the future maybe? An expansion? I can hope at least.

[puca]

Its a pity if there are not doble semitrailers :(

[rcm.1982]

im a truck driver but right now im sick so i dont drive but i've seen two 53's in one truck! they are only allowed to use the turnpikes! so yes there are two 53's attached to one truck..even at my dads workplace 1 truck comes in with 2 trailers from california! i would love to drive those in the game and learn how to drive them!

[KENWORTH]

i seen 2 48's before

[puca]

Somebody knows if there will be doubles??, because it seems to have a lot there in california, and the dev said that trucks, and i suppose the trailers will be the same that are working there

[Freak Of Nature]

No there won't devs had answered this q some time ago :)

[GargantulaKon]

Maybe we can mod the game to include double trailers when the game is released.

[puca]

No there won't devs had answered this q some time ago :)
ok, thanks

Maybe we can mod the game to include double trailers when the game is released.
I hope we can!

[WBCody]

Back in the late 80's to the early 90's I used to pull doubles like the ones pictured in the Watkins pic thru California when I was transporting frieght for Sears & Roebuck. We had tight time schedules and if you traveled 65mph, you were late...even thought dispatch claimed that all the loads dispatched at 45mph. We used to supply all the Sears Catalog stores in Northern Caifornia and thought-out the Northwest States until Sears decided close down the catalog division. They feared K-Mart as their biggest competitor back then and were looking for ways to cut costs. That pretty much put me out off job. Man I hated to see that go, we made a lot money back in those days doing that.

I don't miss pulling the doubles tho.... It's a lot of work when you gotta break the set down every time you make a delivery, or worse yet, when somebody gives bad directions and you end up down a dead-end street with no turn around. It's nearly impossible to back a set in a straight line for any distance.

I had one time when making a delivery at a Boing location, I kicked off my rear trailer & con-gear in an empty parking lot whilst I was uloading the front trailer. During that time (around 5:00am and it was still dark out) shift change had come about. And when I went back to collect the second trailer I found it buried in a sea of cars. I mean these idiots even parked under the nose of the trailer and even behind it in between my dolly and the rear of the trailer itself. I mean I literaly had maybe a foot of clearnce on each end. And to make matters even more interesting, I was driving a 377 Peterbuilt Conventional with about a 250" wheelbase that pretty much spanned the width of the isle way between the parked cars when attempting to back under the trailer at a 90 degree angle. It took every bit of 45 minutes to yank that trailer out and the whole while people are zipping up & down the lane honking their horns at me and yelling obsenities because I'm blocking their right of passage. Like there isn't another isle way that they can choose?:evil: This parking lot was huge! But I did get her out of there and didn't even touch a single car in the process!

It would be interesting to see if they (a set of doubles - or even triples for that matter) handle the same way in simulation as they do out in the real world... 8)

[GargantulaKon]

It would be interesting to see if they (a set of doubles - or even triples for that matter) handle the same way in simulation as they do out in the real world... 8)

I do not think we are going to see how they handle since it is not going to be in Rig'n'Roll.

Nice story. I would imagine that doubles would be hard to drive in real life. What if you had an order in the front trailer (behind the semi)? You would have to detach the second trailer and that can get annoying. Almost as annoying as having the trailer's shipments put in backwards with the first stop's order in the back of everything else.

[digit]

Maybe we can mod the game to include double trailers when the game is released.

This will probly not be possible.