Shunt Trucks And The Blindfolds We Wear

Continuous run 24hr a day these trucks are expensive and extremely overworking at some locations.

I have heard the sayings of private propertythese truck are not regulated anywhere for safety requirements.

I can says that they are Continuously use way over their rated capacity and not 1 person seems to care about the safety of the worker or the damage to the trucks, broken- axle bolts, broken lower trailing arm bushings transmissions etc.

Anyone else wonder why you can't carry over 40000 on drives of a trademark truck, but a shunt truck is required to move trailer with upwards of 45,000lbs on the single drive axle and not 1 person gives a thought?

I can says that they are Continuously use way over their rated capacity and not 1 person seems to care about the safety of the worker or the damage to the trucks, broken- axle bolts, broken lower trailing arm bushings transmissions etc.

Depends on where you work. I drove them at two different companies and they were properly maintained. If something was out of service we wrote it up and it was downed until it was fixed.

Anyone else wonder why you can't carry over 40000 on drives of a trademark truck, but a shunt truck is required to move trailer with upwards of 45,000lbs on the single drive axle and not 1 person gives a thought?

Again...depends on where you work. I doubt I ever pulled anywhere close to that on the drive axle. I didn't ever pull it over a scale but if tandems don't typically exceed 34000 lbs why would there somehow be around 45000 lbs on the drive axle of the hostler? Of course I realize that hostlers are often pulling trailers with the tandems all the way to the rear which shifts more weight to the drive axle, but hostlers are also much lighter trucks than the full size sleeper trucks that typically pull the trailers once they leave the yard.

Really though, to answer your question...it's being driven at low speeds in a private yard away from other vehicles and the trucks and tires are over-engineered to be able to handle more weight than they're rated for.