Super Dumper

[Vikki Nagindas]

ASuper Dump is a dump truck equipped with a Strong Arm™ trailing axle, which allows the truck to transform on demand, significantly stretching its overall axle length so that it can carry substantially more weight in compliance with bridge laws (legal vehicle weight limits).

A Super Dump has four to seven total axles, and is capable of legal payloads ranging from 19-26 Tons. Super Dumps carry payloads equal to trailers and transfers, while maintaining the maneuverability and quick turnaround time of a standard tandem dump truck. The unique combination of huge payload & quickness is what makes the Super Dump the most productive and profitable dump truck on the road.

According to the federal bridge formula (and most state weight laws as well), a vehicle's allowable weight is increased by adding more axles and/or adding more overall axle length (the distance from the first to the last axle on the truck). Well the Strong Arm trailing axle does both: When the Strong Arm is deployed, it adds an axle plus 11-13 feet to the overall axle length, and thereby increases its allowable weight by as much as 14,000 lbs (7 tons).

Super Dumps can haul more paylaod than any other straight dump truck. And of course, when you can carry more payload each trip, your revenue and profits increase significantly. When you invest in a Super Dump instead of a typical straight dump truck (including tandems, tri-axles, quads, and quints), the additional payload hauled each trip results in the Super Dump paying for itself - in additional revenue alone - many times over.

Productivity and profitability aren't functions of payload alone, however. After all, transfers, pup trailers, and long end dump trailers carry large payloads like Super Dumps. But those dump trucks are tedious, cumbersome, and time-consuming; such that the additional payload they haul compared to typical straight dump trucks is almost completely squandered by their inefficiency and slowness. This is where the Super Dump truly stands apart from all others: it hauls the payloads of dump trailers and transfers, while being just as agile and quick as simple straight trucks.When at the dump site, and whenever the dump body is empty, the Strong Arm stows above the dump body, completely out of the way for dumping operations, and without hindering the truck's maneuverability. While a trailer or transfer can haul 26 Tons of payload to the job site, when it arrives at the site it's STILL a trailer or transfer, and the task of backing up and dumping (twice, for a transfer or pup) can be painfully time-consuming. Meanwhile, a Super Dump (carrying the same 26-Ton payload) arrives at the job site, stows all of its auxiliary axles including the Strong Arm, and gets in, gets dumped, and heads back to the loading site as quickly as any short straight dump truck. For short- and mid-range jobs, which are typical for dump trucks, a Super Dump will usually LAP trailers, pups, or transfers, delivering an additional load each day. At 26 Tons per load, that means a lot in terms of revenue and profitability. And the shorter the distance, the more the Super Dump's efficiency shows, as it can lap the trailers and transfers several times in one day.

The Super Dump is more profitable than any other straight dump truck because it hauls significantly more payload each trip, and it's more profitable than dump trailers, pup trailers, and transfers because its superior maneuverability and quickness results in additional loads delivered to the job site.

Strong Industries originally manufactured trailing axles only, retro-fitting the attachment hardware for installation on dump bodies of every size and shape, from just about every dump body manufracturer. This process gave us a unique opportunity to analyze all the different body designs, from the perspective of what works well for general dump truck performance, as well as what works well for Super Dump performance. After all, a Super Dump is all about maximizing payload, and the vast majority of dump bodies waste payload with materials and designs that are far heavier than they need to be.

So we ultimately decided to manufacture our own dump bodies as well, taking the best of the designs and features we'd encountered, and creating all-new designs that are the perfect balance of durability and body weight. From the shape of the bed to the shape of the tailgate, the exact type of high-strength steel to use in each and every component, and the precise placement of the body on the truck chassis for the optimum weight distribution: Maximum payload with maximum performance has always been our mantra, and the Strong Industries dump bed reflects this in every way. It's now been over 20 years since we started building the dump bodies, and with each new model we've designed, we've improved the durability while maintaining maximum payload.

Our newest Super Dump body will last longer than any we've ever built, while our customers continue to benefit from the combination of huge payload and quick turnaroud that makes the Super Dump the most profitable dump truck on the road.

Version 3.8 supports bootable backups for Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, is Apple silicon native, lets you ignore "missing drive" errors during scheduled copies, and also improves Smart Wake, which ensures your backups happen whether your Mac is awake or asleep...and won't turn on your screen if your Mac is already awake.This new version also improves Smart Delete, an awesome new capability that minimizes the possibility of disk full errors while maintaining safety with no speed penalty, native Notification Center support, a Finder extension to quickly run copies, and other improvements. SuperDuper can even create and copy from snapshots, which means with an APFS backup drive, you can restore today's Smart Update, yesterday's, etc! It's super cool.

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SuperDuper comes preconfigured, ready to perform all the most common copying and cloning tasks. We've pored over the Apple documentation so you don't have to. Every step of the process carefully follows all Apple recommended policies and procedures.

Whether you're making a full backup to a disk image, using Smart Update to update an existing backup, or making a complex clone to test a software update, the process couldn't be simpler: select the source drive, the destination and the appropriate script. Click Copy Now, and SuperDuper does the rest.

Most companies would cherry-pick their feedback, and include selected quotes from happy customers. Sure, we could point you to our 4.5 5 star review from Macworld, or many other raves. We could even point you to our back-to-back 2005 and 2006 Eddy Awards!

Regular backups aren't always the best way to recover for the risk takers out there who jump on every software update. Unless you take specific steps, fully restoring a backup restores everything on the drive, overwriting both the system and user files. If that's what you want to do, great. But it usually isn't, because everything you've done since the backup would be lost!

Note also that USB drives do not allow booting Power PC based Macintoshes under any version of macOS: this is not a SuperDuper! limitation, but one of the OS. If you would like to boot from a backup stored on an external drive, and have a Power PC based Mac, please purchase a Mac compatible FireWire drive for Power PC Macs. Intel Mac users can boot from USB 2, USB 3, Thunderbolt or FireWire drives.

Check out our white paper that describes how SuperDuper can be used to test multiple versions of an operating system (or anything else that requires system isolation). This methodology is great for ADC members and other "seed" sites!

BTW, if we find it I am happy to have testers when the Super 6 is implemented. I support a list of synths by now. Have a look at GitHub - christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm: The KnobKraft Orm - The free modern cross-platform MIDI Sysex Librarian if you llike.

@Spyes Oh, given that they have documented all NRPN messages to change the individual synth parameters, reverse engineering the format could be done rather easily, if there is no funky encoding/compression involved. But it seems to me the UDO super 6 does not use sysex at all, but rather the USB drive mode to expose the data as files to the computer. So the whole request patch/send patch cycle a Librarian software would like to do is not possible.

And from my experience with Roland devices that do this - you cannot just update the data on the drive while e.g. playing as you can with sysex, but have to switch the synth into a special mode and then have to switch out of it again before resuming playing. Not near the same smooth experience as sending sysex via MIDI.

Like all MAXX-D Trailers, the DSX super heavy-duty dump model is Texas-made and is finished with our industry-leading powder coating process. Six different steps all work together to give your dump trailer a premium powder-coated steel surface with unmatched durability.

Invented more than 30 years ago, Super Dumps, or super 10 dump trucks, maximize not just the gross weight they can carry, but also the payload and profitability as well. Super Dumps haul more material in the least amount of time. This means increased revenue over the lifetime of the vehicle.

For a regular tandem dump truck, having 3 axles and spanning 22 ft, the limit for the gross weight is 52,500 lbs. If you add a pusher axle, it now has 4 axles, even though the overall span remains 22 feet. And commensurately, the allowance has also increased to 56,500 lbs.

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