Gene Green wrote:

Another party to this discussion made the point that testing the truck alone and testing trucks with a car might yield different results.

Sure, and different cars with a specific truck might yield different results; but what we are evaluating is truck vs. truck (or more usually, wheelset vs. wheelset in a particular sideframe. Why not directly compare them? Seems sensible to me.

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