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T800 Tandem 424
Truck 424, a newer T800 belonging to Pioneer Sand Company. This one has a Caterpillar C11, 10 speed, and 3.90 rears. It also has an electric tarp, rock tub dump body, and high lift gate. Pioneer's tandems do mostly residential and commercial deliveries of landscape products and materials. Hence, they're geared more for on-road use than for sitework. Also note the lever in the middle of the dump body for the split gate, which allows two separate commodities (or two separate mixtures of commodities) to be carried together without being mixed together. Great for when a single order contains two products, or when two small orders can be shipped together. The split gate can be a pain in the ass, though. There've been a couple times where I'd be loaded with a full load of a single product, and the gate would latch down during the loading process. A lot of the time, I'd have to dump out the back portion, bring the bed down, put the truck in motion, slam on the brakes when I had built up enough speed, get out to pull the gate open, then go back to the pile and dump again. Also, with that gate closed and product in the front compartment, one has to be extremely careful not to allow the truck to tip over.
T800 Tandem 424
Truck 424, a newer T800 belonging to Pioneer Sand Company. This one has a Caterpillar C11, 10 speed, and 3.90 rears. It also has an electric tarp, rock tub dump body, and high lift gate. Pioneer's tandems do mostly residential and commercial deliveries of landscape products and materials. Hence, they're geared more for on-road use than for sitework. Also note the lever in the middle of the dump body for the split gate, which allows two separate commodities (or two separate mixtures of commodities) to be carried together without being mixed together. Great for when a single order contains two products, or when two small orders can be shipped together. The split gate can be a pain in the ass, though. There've been a couple times where I'd be loaded with a full load of a single product, and the gate would latch down during the loading process. A lot of the time, I'd have to dump out the back portion, bring the bed down, put the truck in motion, slam on the brakes when I had built up enough speed, get out to pull the gate open, then go back to the pile and dump again. Also, with that gate closed and product in the front compartment, one has to be extremely careful not to allow the truck to tip over.