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Tag axles

Are dual wheels usually required on tag axles for proper coach loading and stability? I have seen passenger and tour coaches with single wheels on the tags. Maybe they are designed to be operated that way. How about FTs?
Royce & Denise, MC #17410
'01 U320 4220 ISM450 Build #5895 SOLD
Toad: '10 Honda CR-V

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert

Re: Tag axles

Reply #1 –
Tags on FTs have single wheels.  The drive axles are duals.  Tags are on 42' coaches and also generally when there's a BR slide on a 38' and longer and are there for CCC (weight capacity).
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!  - John C. Bogle

2000 U320 36' non-slide / WildEBeest Rescue
2003 U320

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Reply #2 –
The tag axle is there to add additional weight-carrying capacity. A single tire on each side is sufficient to add the needed capacity. Therefore, dual tires are not required.
David and Carolyn Osborn
1995 U320C SE 40' Build 4726 Feb 1995
FMCA 147762
Motorcade 17186

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Reply #3 –
Didn't the old Bluebird Wanderlodges have a dually tag?
Steve & Ginny Hill
96 U295 36'/Wrangler
Tampa

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Reply #4 –
We considered a 'Bird, and looked at a couple of PTs. None of them had a dually tag. I'll ask Randy, though, just to make sure.

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Reply #5 –
Some of the barth motorhomes had dually tag axles as they were very heavy and were running 16 inch tires
previous 1984 35 ft ORED 250 HP 3208 Cat       
previous 1998 40 ft U295 CAI 325 hp Cummins
previous 2003 40 Ft u320 build #6140 450 Cummins M11.                                                         
1999 Mazda Miata
Ron, Nancy, Tipper the cat, Max The dog
1997 U 270 36 ft build number 5174 8.3 Cummins

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Reply #6 –
Just heard back, and there might have been a very customized one made with a dually tag, but the "standard" 'Birds with tags are single wheels.

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Reply #7 –
We have a tag on our 43. Some coaches had steerable tags. Some have liftable, which I have.

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Reply #8 –
             This steerable tag axle is in big usage on heavy dump trucks . This has been on going and in use in trucks for many years . Not something new .The first time I noticed them was in 1971 on a truck hauling gravel to my farm . I thought that was a pretty neat thing . Newell is the first coach maker to use them that I am aware of . They are a lot more expensive and weigh a bunch more . I will take my lifting tag over a steerable tag any day of the week .I can see a city bus using them as they make right angle turns all day long .          Brad Metzger
Brad Metzger
2010 Phenix 45'