Makes it impossible to perform the required by law, daily pre trip inspection of the tires and lug nuts and hub oil seals. all that plastic, hit a deer with that baby and total it. theres a reason you see so many big trucks with the cow catcher moose guard tube bumpers installed in front of the plastic .
nothing NEEDS to be designed to make that daily inspection stuff impossible.. you KNOW there are easy ways that have been used for decades to easily remove panels. Dzus fasteners for one thing. Click locks, t handles, pop hinges.. there are a lot of easy ways to make things fast to tear apart for inspections, look at race cars. FAST disassembly because they MUST be able to quickly get those apart, and race cars are 200 mph to 400 mph. But they can easily do a semi truck for fast daily panel removal for inspections. It's not a one piece casing made of steel
I like the design, then I start to think how much fun will be change of tires or putting chain on them... soooo much fun.
ReplyDeleteMakes it impossible to perform the required by law, daily pre trip inspection of the tires and lug nuts and hub oil seals.
Deleteall that plastic, hit a deer with that baby and total it. theres a reason you see so many big trucks with the cow catcher moose guard tube bumpers installed in front of the plastic .
nothing NEEDS to be designed to make that daily inspection stuff impossible.. you KNOW there are easy ways that have been used for decades to easily remove panels. Dzus fasteners for one thing. Click locks, t handles, pop hinges.. there are a lot of easy ways to make things fast to tear apart for inspections, look at race cars. FAST disassembly because they MUST be able to quickly get those apart, and race cars are 200 mph to 400 mph. But they can easily do a semi truck for fast daily panel removal for inspections. It's not a one piece casing made of steel
DeleteHoly, moly! Very interesting from the perspective of an old heavy-duty truck salesperson. Thanks for the news.
ReplyDeleteLooks almost just like what Peterbilt made 36 years ago in 1988
ReplyDeleteI guess nothing ever really changes.
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