Tandem placement and turning radius

Because frankly it’s mind blowing that someone with your experience has been asking these kinds of questions.

When you have weight on your bags the air system is pumping air to the bags to keep your truck at ride height. When you remove the weight (in this case your trailer) the air is still going to the bags to keep it at ride height only now you’ve removed the weight within a couple seconds. And that causes the bags to extend because the leveling valve can’t exhaust the air that quickly when it’s trying to get the truck back down to ride height.

 

Could of fooled me

 

There are probably tons of videos on YouTube. Search how semi truck air systems work, how air leveling valves work, truck electrical systems. Anything you’re curious about if you’re interested in learning.

 

For many of us we learned the old way, from someone who let us ride along and learn the ropes and then letting us drive. If you don’t know this stuff it’s nothing against you, it reaffirms that companies are sending drivers out without the proper knowledge. And since you didn’t know differently you were comfortable as a trainer. It creates this endless cycle and we as an industry end up with who knows how many drivers that are in the same boat as you. You have the willingness to learn and you want to learn, but how many don’t and go through every day not knowing what they don’t know? Many of us will help if you truly want help.

 

Learning as much as you can about the truck will benefit you. Simply being able to describe what is wrong when you have a problem will save you time and make your life easier.

 

That is trolling. Any attempt on your part to justify it or claim that you didn't realize it was trolling will not end well. Just so you know.

 

I reckon I'll take that in to consideration when I write my autobiography