How much weight can a trailer door support before popping open?

Don't even try opening that door, it can kill you. You can try pulling forward and slamming the brakes, to see if that shifts it away from the doors. If that doesn't work, call your company for further instructions.

 

Dont even try to open that door???? No ####!!!!! Jjajajajajajja

 

If you have load of scrap cardboard/paper, it's doubtful you can get it to "jump back up to where it belongs". Depends on if it has two sets of locking cams per door or 1 as to how well it will "hold". Also depends on how old the trailer is and worn the cams are. Not much you can do, and getting the door to open is going to be an exercise in danger for whoever has to open it. Having a forklift push against the door (with a pallet) as the latch is undone, is the preferred method. Hopefully they have a low dock where the doors can be opened while backed to the dock.

If' it's only one cam set holding the door shut (or it looks like it's "ready to pop") and you have a ways to go yet, you might be wise to get the matter attended to and corrected before continuing and let your carrier deal with the issue. Once you message the carrier about the problem, the onus is on them but if it falls onto the hiway, you too as a driver will be held liable, too, regardless.

 

Common sense is not common. That is why "Worlds Dumbest" videos are so popular on TV.

 

When I do load swaps, that's the first thing I do before sending in a "arrival" is do a walk-around of the other to make sure nothing looks abnormal. That's a huge reason many loads want to get "dropped" is because driver 1 is trying to pass his issues on to driver 2. I'd have seen that and said "no thanks, that's your baby, you can get somebody else to take it".

 

Go to a United Rentals or Sunbelt store with your load (if close to where you are) and rent a telescoping forklift aka telehandler. Put the mast of the forklift against the doors and unlock them...then back the fork lift up. When the bales fall out then use the forklift to reposition the load and reload the bales that fell out. Much simpler and much more cost effective than hiring a wrecker.

 

Why would a company driver make that decision and suffer that expense? It is his duty to report the problem to his superiors and let them make the decisions.