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It would need a compressed air brake system for the trailer, wouldn't it?



Not at this size. Electronic brakes are king when you’re sub-fifth-wheel.


As far as I know, at these trailor weights you have to seperatly brake the trailer itself, which you use compressed air connected to the trailer at the moment. I would guess unless you can brake the trailer electrically as well you would still need it. not sure how many traileros with electric brakes there are.


With the exception of rental trailers and boat trailers electric brakes are literally the standard until you get into trailers big enough that any vehicle you'd tow them with will have air brakes. Electric drum brakes are literally the standard. For the sizes of trailers a truck like this would be expected to tow you would have to go out of your way to find a trailer that does not use electric brakes (once again, boat and rental excepted).


Which is my point, in order to pull "near infinite loads" you most likely reach trailers that require air brakes. e.G. my Range Rover is allowed to tow up to 6.5 tons with the air brake system installed (which it isn't anymore because I never ever need it). And at these loads, the towing vehicle's brakes are much less relevant than the trailer ones.


When he said "near infinite loads" I was thinking more like the Toyota space shuttle stunt which is just something for the internet cheerleaders to jerk off to and doesn't actually say anything about the vehicle's real world performance.

Nobody is realistically thinking this truck can pull more than ~15-20k (and even then it would be a short distance and no hills type of trip because of cooling limitations) with the acceleration/braking distance/handling we expect in this day and age for vehicles towing things on public roads.




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