sandman2234 said:
There are a lot of trailer still out there with springs, but just as many with air bags, so maybe that is what they were talking about?
David from jax
You might be right, as i think i've read it in the magazine of the Dutch organisation of trailer and bodyworks builders.
Indeed 99.9% of the European trailers is air suspension. The advantages of smoother ride, constant ride height regardless the load, and because its all integrated in the ABS and EBS/ESP systems that come standard on most full size trailers.
For us it saves a couple of hours assembly time when installing air suspension with EBS/ESP and a brake force adjuster sensing the bellow pressure, instead of a leafs, and a spring loaded arm that senses the ride height to adjust the brake pressure to the actual axle load.
The system itself is a bit more expensive, but EBS/ESP has less connections to make and is installed in half the time than a normal ABS system.
I am in the small drivers license trailer business: We had only 1 request for leaf springs this year, which was for a field drainage company who pulled a trailer full of tiles behind the tracked drainlaying machine through knee deep mud...
Anyways, we're hi-jacking the thread, so lets get back to the road grader