Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?*
*No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
You’d be perfectly ok to run anywhere you pleased with your axle lifted if as you say it didn’t put you overweight on the other axles. However with most (note I said most) modern lift axles they’ll automatically drop with weight on them, which would probably stop you running anywhere tbh.
I’d drive it back to the yard sod the next services!
switchlogic:
I’d drive it back to the yard sod the next services!
■■■■ right, once run from kent to norfolk with a 2nd steer, the type that didnt lift strapped up, the workshop(back in norfolk) told me which air pipes to bypass to keep the air bags deflated, jacked and strapped either side. norfolk pronto and dont spare the horses, being a 290 there werent many to spare. empty I’ll add. Cant remember what the issue was, but must’ve been more than a puncture 
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!
It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me 
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
Blimey, maybe you should have let him answer your question before tearing him apart.
switchlogic:
I’d drive it back to the yard sod the next services!
+1. I’ve spent many hours waiting for Tyre Fitters & Mechanics when I was on landfills, limp back to base if possible.
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
I sometimes run with the mid lift down, usually if I have a few motorway miles to do. Smoother ride I find. Off the motorway I have it lifted.
I lift my axel asap, can’t stand it being down if there isn’t much weight on it. It spins up if there is the slightest bit of moisture on the road. Also I like to get the fuel economy as high as poss, running at 32 tonne yesterday I managed 13.2 to the gallon over 400k of A roads and B roads
FarnboroughBoy11 wrote:
lankyphil wrote:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
Blimey, maybe you should have let him answer your question before tearing him apart.
Hey I hope your not interfering with a ongoing CSI trucknet investigation
Trial by fire
Unless you’re loaded and the sensors won’t allow it then just lift it and carry on.
Even if it put the drive axle overweight briefly it would make more sense to get the tyre changed at a services or in a decent lay-by than on the hard shoulder, if you weren’t chancing being overweight then I’d run back to the yard or the tyre place with it up.
A transport company would be happy for you to do that, a logistics company would have you sitting at the side of the road.
I run with the mid axle up all of the time, when weight and other factors allow.
If your running solo, I also find it’s a lot easier to get the truck sideways when you boot it… 
Ken.
FarnboroughBoy11:
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
^^^^^ I Agree ^^^^^^
switchlogic:
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
Blimey, maybe you should have let him answer your question before tearing him apart.
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
happysack:
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
I sometimes run with the mid lift down, usually if I have a few motorway miles to do. Smoother ride I find. Off the motorway I have it lifted.
I can’t agree 
FarnboroughBoy11:
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
Now you’ve done it FB 
Somewhere in Leatherhead, a frustrated old man still living with his mum in a room plastered with pictures of Convoy and a shrine to Scargill has just felt a tingling in his groin. I fear this thread will soon be 47 pages of [zb] and google links explaining why the lift axle is all Thatchers fault
FarnboroughBoy11:
switchlogic:
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
Blimey, maybe you should have let him answer your question before tearing him apart.
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
The tag or mid axle on a 6x2 doesn’t always lift sometimes it’s an extra option that hasn’t been specced to save money on the original cost of the unit.
billybigrig:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
That’s a new keyboard you owe me!
Own Account Driver:
FarnboroughBoy11:
switchlogic:
FarnboroughBoy11:
lankyphil:
Out of curiosity, Say you have a blowout or puncture on the motorway. you pull over and find it’s on a lifting axle. Would you be allowed to run to the nearest services with the axle raised if it didn’t put you over your axle weights?**No fuel related bonuses here so run with midlift down all the time before someone comments…
Why do you run with the mid lift down all the time■■?
Talk about throwing money down the drain.
You must spin up your drive wheels all the time when it’s wet.
And not to mention giving other trucks a false impression that you are heavy when you’re not.
My gaffer would give me a disciplinary if I came back into the yard empty with the mid lift down and quite rightly so. Ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous!!!It’s the most unprofessional sight on the road when you see a tractor unit running solo along the motorway with his mid lift down. I don’t know why but its that sort of thing that really bugs me
Blimey, maybe you should have let him answer your question before tearing him apart.
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
The tag or mid axle on a 6x2 doesn’t always lift sometimes it’s an extra option that hasn’t been specced to save money on the original cost of the unit.
If that is the case then I personally think that’s dangerous, it doesnt take much for the drive wheels to spin up on a greasy road with no weight on, let alone empty with the mid lift down.
billybigrig:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I wasn’t meaning to tear anyone apart, I was just saying its pointless and defies the whole point of the invention of the mid lift. Might as well just run double drives.
Had to think about that one for a sec!!