One with no trailer. When you go to a truck stop, a lot of them have "bobtail parking" areas. They don't want you to park the tractor itself in a place a tractor with a trailer can fit, so they'll take the real short areas and designate them "bobtail parking" zones.
A bobtail can be driven with a Class B CDL, but if you're driving tractor-trailers for a living, you'd have a Class A CDL, anyhow.
A 'bobtail' is a colloquial term for the cab/tractor of a semi-truck. Therefore, the sign "No Bobtail Parking", for example, indicates no parking of semi cabs allowed.
That would vary,but a hiway tractor with a sleeper would average about 17000-19000lbs.
A bobtail truck is a truck that is not carrying anything. It has no trailer or chassis connected. It is usually the tractor part of a semi truck without the trailer. It can also refer to a truck where all of the axles are connected to the same chassis.
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A sleeper berth equipped three axle bobtail tractor typically weighs between 16,000 and 18,000 lbs.
bobtail means no transmission.
You could get by driving just a bobtail with a Class B CDL, but it's going to raise a lot of questions if ever you should be pulled over by a Motor Carrier Enforcement official. You could even pull a trailer, so long as the weight rating of the trailer was under 10,000 lbs.
Yes a bobtail has air brakes.
Yes, the purebred American Bobtail can have a lilac coat.
Yes, a purebred American Bobtail does have hazel eyes.
Yes, the purebred American bobtail can have a chocolate coat.