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    Braking

    I know the rear slid....I'm not sure whether it was both axles or just one. The abs light does come on and go out at start up. I hear several series of "clicks" when you first turn on the key that I had always thought was the abs testing itself, but I may be wrong about that. As far as using the transmission to slow down, I do that as much as possible, but being a 2007 truck, it is pre I-shift. I have the Eaton 10 speed ultra shift. Makes it a bit harder.
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    Braking

    I just had the rears adjusted. My brakecontroller sores not use air at all...it is totally electric. How do I check the abs?
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    Braking

    I have something I wanted to ask about...i have tried searching and I have not found it, or I'm not searching the right terms...i have a 2007 Volvo 730, still tandem. We tow a 42 foot fiver. Yesterday we had a scary situation. We were driving along an interstate with about 4 lanes of travel. I was in the second lane from right. We were probably going 45mph as there was traffic. Suddenly the Lange I was in came to a dead stop. I jumped on the brakes. The tandem locked up but the fronts did not. Thankfully, no one was beside me, so I was able to steer to the slow lane to avoid a collision. Since then I have been wondering if my brakes are working as expected? I have a direct link for the controller. I have the understanding that the Brakes are proportional, so I have the trailer air supply lines capped and always run with the red octagon on dash pushed in. Am I doing something wrong? Did I not step hard enough? Should I leave the red octagon out? It worried me because one of the big reasons I went hdt was for panic stops and now I'm second guessing that.... Thanks inn advance!
  4. Headed a little south and set up camp outside Williamsburg, Virginia
  5. Maiden voyage.... spent the weekend in Brunswick, GA, now at Stone Mountain just East of Atlanta for the rest of this week!
  6. Thanks for all the advice on this! After many phone discussions yesterday will several very nice folks at Penn DOT, it appears that titling as a private truck is the best option.... it can be titled as an RV once the rear frame is covered, even if it is just with a flat deck, but there would still be a lot of gray areas with what I can and can't tow. She said some people title as rv and then tow large 5ers and this is kinda like playing with fire.... if is a truck title, much less restrictions unless it falls into the federal commercial category, which 5ers do not. So hopefully we can put this you rest now!
  7. Unfortunately my local dmv told me there was no such thing as a non- commercial class A license for PA.... which I now possess.... so I am less than confident in their knowledge....
  8. I have fulfilled all the requirements posted on the PA website for rv....4 items (fridge, microwave, etc...), had the enhanced inspection, passed that, sent all the paperwork in, came back twice for discrepancies on the gvwr, got that all sorted out, now came back and they say that at least 50% of the trucks length has to be living quarters.... this is not on the website or anywhere I have ever seen....
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    PA registration

    Hi everyone! Looking for some help... has anyone here registered the hdt as rv in PA.... I'm having some difficulty with the red tape and was looking for some advice.... Thanks in advance!
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