Today my co driver broke the air bags on the trailer?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by dahookup29, Jul 9, 2013.

  1. dahookup29

    dahookup29 Bobtail Member

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    The air bags on the tractor trailer are broken, all four of them. The white bag or whatever inside the air bag came out n rip. The aig bags are still there but wont hold air cause of that. Whats the down time needed to get this fix? Gonna have to call roadside tomorrow
     
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  3. SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    How did he do that?
     
  4. Flatbedn

    Flatbedn Road Train Member

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    Couple ours labor but why wait to call roadside tommorow?
     
  5. trips74

    trips74 Medium Load Member

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    yeah shouldnt take long to swap those out if ur not tired and your roadside actually works nights i would get started now especially if you at a ta or a petro.
     
  6. dahookup29

    dahookup29 Bobtail Member

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    Need to drop 2 pallets off tomorrow 6am est.... It happen when sliding tandems, some how the back of the trailer lifted up when he try to move them forward
     
  7. dcedlr

    dcedlr Light Load Member

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    lmao, always blame the co-driver... like the poor guy busted all the air bags. only way that could happen is if its a flatbed and he raised the trailer and forgot to level it out and air kept pumping into them while he was driving down the road and hitting bumps and stuff.
     
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  8. dcedlr

    dcedlr Light Load Member

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    someone forgot to set the brake on the trailer and release the one in the tractor it seems. however, I don't see how that could hurt the airbags.
     
  9. Flatbedn

    Flatbedn Road Train Member

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    Were the pins not released? Do you guys drive for crst?
     
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  10. Flatbedn

    Flatbedn Road Train Member

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    If he forgot to set the trailer it wouldn't have lifted ripping the air bags.
     
  11. dahookup29

    dahookup29 Bobtail Member

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    No flatbed, it actually happen when he was leaving the dock buddy
     
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