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Holland | Check 5th Wheel
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vongrimmenstein
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If I tugged on the lead trailer after hooking, & I stayed hooked, I never looked @ the jaws of the 5th wheel. I did check the pull handle & make sure it was retracted all the way. in 20 years I never had an incident when I followed my procedure.
You were lucky. I had one come apart even after I looked at the jaws and the handle. You never know with any mechanical device.
You're right on "track"
vongrimmenstein
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Our former mechanic Bob can more once told me that if you yank on it and you stay hook and you check to see The lever has completely retracted then you've done your job for the pre trip and should have no expectation that the 5th will fail. If the lead trailer should come detached from the 5th wheel that's a mechanical failure not a driver failure. I know of 2 incidents when this happened at my 17 years at 050 and both times they sent the 5th wheel to Fort Smith for inspection and both times they found excessive wear. I don't remember the outcome but I don't think the driver was held responsible
vongrimmenstein
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I can say that Bob Our mechanic always check the 5th wheels and lube them if necessary especially on the city trackers where he had access to him all the time period. Not only was he a good mechanic but he was very safety minded and that always gave me a relief that my tractor was kept in pretty good shape. I know he saved the company a lot of money but now days I understand all the repairs light bulbs minor stuff that Bob did all the time is now being done by outside vendors at a much greater cost. Von
Well then don't switch me over to a new direction.
We had a line tractor that dropped half-dozen trailers before 5th wheel was rebuilt.
They later retracted some warning letters.
You mean those bastards, retracted the letters?
Anything man made is made to fail, just look at all us truck drivers straight failure
that's what you call... forked freightCan't blame this one the bad 5th wheel maintenance , as it stayed hooked !!
What did he lose, a hat, a pair of gloves, what , tell us!!!!
A big ole truck driver tale.
Speak fur yourself, I once kudent spel truk driver, now I is won.
And got a free set of heated mirrors for the misunderstanding
With fur around them? Like my 62 Chevy had?
He had to turn around & go back 2 million miles.
Driver's runaway trailer ends up in interstate median
The trailer of a semi-truck ended up in the median of an Indiana interstate after it became disconnected earlier this morning.cdllife.com
