Rear end delete

[kryten]

(04-23-2017 )flonly Wrote:  Has anyone on here ever heard of someone delete a rear axle ?Going from tandam with power divider to a single axle with no power divider?I mainly pull doubles that are less than 55000 in gross weight.They are similar to fed ex trailers.When I hook up i have like 5 foot inbetween truck and first trailer so i drag some air.I also thought my rolling resistance would go down with 4 less tires.This is something i have thought about for a while but would wait till i need tres .The savings in buying 4 tires shoul cover a lot of the work cost.Anyone have any thoughts?thanks

I knew a guy years ago who was on a dedicated run where most of his loads were well below 30000lb. What he did to gain a bit of an advantage was just single his drive tires. Still has 4 drive tires but on the two axles. True he did still have the extra drag of the extra diff but he did gain a bit on the fuel economy side from less rolling resistance. The bonus was when the carrier lost that contract all he had to do was reinstall the other 4 tires and he's ready for max weight again.