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Most of the "false hooks" I've seen occurred on ice and snow. I looked up the force needed to latch the 5th wheel and on a low coefficient of friction surface like ice and snow with an empty or lightly loaded trailer the required force may not be achievable, and I've caught those false hooks a couple times during pre-trip inspection or earlier. But when I drove spotting tractor in the yard for UPS and USPS, neither required a visual inspection to confirm the trailer was hooked

So how many hundred million $$$ did Ford spend to develop and tool up this fossil?

Looks better than new!

If that truck had proper "west coast" mirrors with spot mirrors there's no way you could see the whole mirror, especially on the right side. Just another reason pickup cabs don't cut it on real trucks...

Kind of a shame to spend the billions to develop and tool up your own powertrain and then not offer it in the North American market...

Impressive million unit a year market, too bad Mack never gained a foothold their.

Is that Class 8 size trucks, or are they including lighter trucks?

It's notable that after several years of making Ethisphere's list of most ethical companies, Ford didn't make the list in 2018.

The Bronco had superior off road performance to the Jeep and had options Jeep didn't even offer like a V8 engine.

Being this is a swap, I suspect the shops are just high balling the price so you won't be shocked if a lot of fabrication is needed and the labor hours take off. Oftentimes with older trucks like yours it's cheaper and a whole lot less headaches to simply sell the old truck and buy another one with the components you need.

Given that Ford is going to have only one body on frame platform in the future and the F series clearly has dibs on it, what is Ford going to slap a Ranger label on in 2022 or so and hopefully sell us? A scrunched F150? A hacked off Explorer? A Rancheroized C-Max/Kuga/Escape?

As a Ranger owner and Ford shareholder I want the new Ranger to succeed, but I think it's about to bomb in the market. It's late getting into production and dealers tell me the Rangers that Ford's website says they have in stock haven't even arrived yet. Ford social media is abuzz about the oil change procedure, which includes removing a front wheel to get at the filter. Motor Trend panned the Ranger they tested for poor ride. The EPA doesn't even have MPG ratings posted for the Ranger yet, holding up sales even if the aforementioned problems get fixed. And if those Rangers Ford says are at the dealers ever actually show up and get released for sale, every one within a hundred miles of me is a crew cab with the tiny joke of a bed and lists for over $40K! Even loyal Ford fans won't pay that for a not yet ready for prime time Ranger when the friendly local GM, Nissan, and Toyota dealers are stocked with a broad selection of compact pickups for thousands less!

Back around 2007 when the U.S. Postal Service was damn near giving away their used MR tandem tractors with the Allison autos I was tempted to build something like those Scanias- Stretch the frame in back and add a steerable tag axle to up the legal GVW from 46K to 54K pounds, would have made a great dump/plow truck for urban applications.

As long as the front axle assembly has the capacity to handle a plow, no problem. MN DOT had some tandem MR dump trucks with plows assigned to the Minneapolis-St.Paul metro area, I suspect the better visibility was an advantage in the cities. Following similar logic, NYC has informed the truck makers that it wants better visibility in it's future truck purchases and they may switch to cabovers.

If Romania can get a Ford truck with tandem axles, why can't we?

Mack lost a lot of OTR fleet sales when deregulation put a lot of the LTL carriers out of business. Then Volvo decided that Mack shouldn't compete with their own product... It's amazing that anyone buys a Mack for OTR anymore.

Looks like it has a V8. Mack dealer in Minneapolis had a 6 axle 2007 MR sit there forever, they get a lot of trucks in for Schwing whose factory is nearby. Was tri-drive with 3 steering axles and the 3rd of the rear driven axles had a power divider, perhaps the plan was to add a powered rear steering axle?

Finally got the bandwidth to watch the video, looks more like "road lope" like you see in short wheelbase farm tractors, wheel loaders, etc.. With all Volvo's gee whiz tech you'd think they'd solve that, but maybe they're saving active suspension for a couple years from now?

The Postal Service's drivers had few complaints about the MC tractor's ride, but when they switched to MRs in the 90s they quickly had nearly a hundred workers comp injuries due to the "bucking bronco" ride. Mack swapped the front springs for something softer but that never totally solved the problem. I suspect the 3/8" MR frame was simply too stiff for the application and the low profile drivers seat simply didn't have enough travel. Sad that after two decades Volvo still hasn't fixed the MR's ride problems...

Take note... A 13.6 meter trailer plus swing radius is 14 meters x 2= 28 meters + a fraction of a meter for dolly articulation, etc.. Volvo is proposing a 32 meter overall length which leaves nearly 4 meters for the cab vs. the current 2.5 meter allowance... A conventional cab with a short sleeper will fit in 4 meters. Perhaps we're seeing Volvo's long term planning here?

Heavily democratic district that she won by a landslide- Link to 2018 election results.

The biggest problem the X12 has is that it's a worthy competitor to the proprietary 11-13 liter engines, and the truck makers of course prefer to promote their own engines.

The same at slower RPMs, redline should be around 1800 RPM vs. 2100 and peak torque at 1020 vs. 1200. It won't be any faster than your 350, but will be easier to drive.

This truck had a pattern like the old overdrive transmissions where the overdrive top gear was to the right and forward. Sounds like it may have been the BDSL 2152 which I believe was an overdrive coupled to a 2 speed axle?

Other than the transmission, a decent truck- The engine had great torque and it rode pretty decent for steel spring rear suspension . But the transmission was for real and it turned off a lot of drivers with the weird pattern though as you said, it shifted easily.