Hauling heavy loads wear and tear

[mj9770]

I’m new on here but I have had several trucks running a lot heavier than what your talking. We are 64,000 lbs empty. 140,000 loaded. Or more. In some pretty rough off road terrain north of Hinton Ab. I had an 08 with a CM871 that a friend of mine bought off me. Has 21,000 hours never been touched. Also had a 2012 with a cm2250 that was demandated from what I’m finding out now a not so good source. It had 15,000 hours when I sold it and no trouble. Either I’m lucky or heavy loads run properly doesn’t hurt them. And like the other guys said. Don’t run them low. I tell my drivers to down shift above 1400 rpm. It doesn’t hurt them to run high rpm. You do more damage down low. I just sold a 2013 I had and it had 3.58 gears that in my opinion were a little quick for what I do but run in 17th gear it cruised along 62 mph at right around 1600 rpm just perfect. And got darn good fuel mileage doing it. Although I did swap the 2250 for a cm 570 signature 600.... but that signature loved running there.