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FedEx Freight | Trailer p29501 too high in the rear

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Pulled this trailer the other day and found that the rear height was 14 feet 1 inch. Don't know if this was a factory glitch or a mechanic over adjusted the air ride on the trailer. I spotted this at a customers dock where I back in daily and noticed the trailer was very close to the roofs overhang. I used the customers tape measure and sure enough the rear of the trailer is too high. I know what you guys are thinking I parked on the wheel chock nope flat level surface. Crawled underneath and saw the air bags were as big as beach balls and the air system adjustment was fully implemented. Had vendor make the proper adjustments and re-measure rear height 13-6. Good to go. Luckily I did'nt take out any overhead objects. Lesson learned take a good look at the air ride to make sure its not over-inflated. I'm no mechanic but was able to tell something was wrong by the size of them bags.
 
These new air ride pups usually. Drop when you cut air supply off this must have been a glitch however driving down the road over 14 ft would suck especially since a ton of viaducks are 14 even or a shade over.
 
A few years ago there was a group of pups that were 14 feet also. We showed the shop they adjusted the ones we had in our yard and all shops were notified to check all pups in a certain number range.
 
There is a few of these new pups that air up, but when you drop it at a dock, they wont let air out of the bags for some reason. I got one last week that I was supposed to leave a head-load on, that I couldn't get inside the trailer it was so high at the dock. The hostler had to hook to the trailer and raise it up all the way to try to lower the rear end while I stripped out the trailer. The underneath of the forklift kept getting hung up on the dock plate when trying to back out of the trailer. they took it to the shop to try to figure out what the problem is with them, haven't heard anymore about them though.
 
rodedawg said:
There is a few of these new pups that air up, but when you drop it at a dock, they wont let air out of the bags for some reason. I got one last week that I was supposed to leave a head-load on, that I couldn't get inside the trailer it was so high at the dock. The hostler had to hook to the trailer and raise it up all the way to try to lower the rear end while I stripped out the trailer. The underneath of the forklift kept getting hung up on the dock plate when trying to back out of the trailer. they took it to the shop to try to figure out what the problem is with them, haven't heard anymore about them though.
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I backed out of a high trailer one time and caught the dock plate.
Me and the lift came out, but the skid was left sitting on the back of the trailer with my forks still under it....bummer.
 
Phantom 309 said:
I backed out of a high trailer one time and caught the dock plate.
Me and the lift came out, but the skid was left sitting on the back of the trailer with my forks still under it....bummer.
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It wasn't a newer Nissan lift was it? I use to share my lift with the I/B supervisor and we must have ripped the blades off atleast 4 times each until I talked them into leaving the side shift off. Since then, no problems.
 
Demolitionman said:
It wasn't a newer Nissan lift was it? I use to share my lift with the I/B supervisor and we must have ripped the blades off atleast 4 times each until I talked them into leaving the side shift off. Since then, no problems.
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Naw it was a old Ty-yo-ta with wore out tires. Lift low+trailer high=ripped off forks....:biglaugh:
 
If you hit anything with that trailer being over height fedex would give you a "preventable" on your record, and if this happened as a road driver, they would likely give you a critical.
 
Well, let's all drive slow, with our 4-ways on under all overpasses. With the warning device in our tractors that goes off everytime you encounter a bridge anyway, it will makes it easy to remember, and there will be no excuse for hitting one. Now if they would have one that will go off when you encounter a railroad crossing, reminding us too that we have hazmat aboard, or there is a train at the crossing before we hit it.

No matter what you do, it's always preventable.. Only the management here is perfect.
 
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