Teamster251
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Well T251 I never slid my trailer sideways to back in a dock on dry pavement.
I only did it on snow covered parking lots.
I've only been a driver trainer since August of this year.
I was only posting about the old days when you could depend on your trailer brakes locking up.
Before I leave my terminals yard,in snowy weather I pull down the chicken stick to see how my trailer will respond in a slide.
This years first snow fall was when I discovered the new UPS freight trailer I have on my route slides,and free wheels.
This was my first encounter with these anti-lock brakes.
As a rule I gear down,not using the brakes very much,during my route activities.
I don't like how these brakes respond,when I need to have brakes in an emergency I can see my trailer going out of control with this braking system.
Thats why I posted this on the truckingboards to find out what my options were.
I see by your responce that I'm going to have to put up with these brakes,if I like it or not,just to keep my job at UPS Freight.
With this information you've just posted T251 I can only pray to God that I will never need to depend on these brakes,no matter what the road conditions are.
Thank you to all that tryed to help me on this thread.
If you work for any UPS division,you've got to do it their way,or pack it in,and hire on else where.
Why would you want trailer brakes to lock up, skidding tires do not stop you faster or give you more control.
"free wheeeling" as you called it on your ABS trailer is exactly what it is suppose to do on snow covered pavemnet if you spike the trolly. The brakes are actually working only they are working better than if they were skidding, causing lost of control. ie sliding side ways.
And by the way what happens when you do your Joey chitwood stunt in a snow covered parking lot and the snow is covering an iced parking lot. Seems you'd have to have little speed to get it going to make your stunt slide. Maybe you've been lucky all these years. It's diffeently not a professional act. It's an unsafe act.
Modern technology is for the betterment of modern life. Improvements to the indusrty happen daily. Learning to adapt to these changes makes you a better person to do the job, do the job safely, do the job correctly.
Adapt to the changes, don't changes the adaptions.
T251