In Cab Release Fifth Wheel Lock??

Well, sure, but .... but what if someone hijacks your truck, uses a rag with ether to take the fight out of you, and takes command of the vehicle and releases the trailer as you're both going down the Santa Monica Freeway at high speed? Then you'll be sorry for ever wanting that in-cab release.

 

lol, a perfect scene from any movie with a truck in it, right?

 

The ones i used on my road test at arnold wern't like that. Yes if working properly, it has to be in park, but things can go wrong. It's a lot less likley with a mechanical lever then an air system. Also they had no handle to use it manually.

 

So it hurts your back to do a little pull put messing with landing gear didn't. I have had some preloaded junk trailer I've had to lower and that hurt more then. Little tug. I get more back pain tugging on my third leg then the 5th wheel.

 

I like having this feature in ny truck. Never get grease on my clothes.

 

I only have the switch to release the 5th wheel pins, to let me slide the 5th wheel back or forward to adjust my weight.
I've ever only used it twice with this truck.
With the Volvo it is simple. Set the switch and it is good to go. With the ProStar, however, I had to keep it pressed in manually to keep it engaged.

A switch to let me release the jaws would be nice, though.
It would save me the time and effort of backing in to the trailer, re-setting the brakes, and getting out again to pull it.
Granted, it takes only an extra minute. But I'm lazy and don't want the extra work.

 

Why?

And really. Someone is going to hijack your truck, knock you out, and then send the trailer (with perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars of stuff) into limbo?
???
That makes a lot of sense if the person wants to joy ride in a bobtail for a few hours, I guess.

I doubt it has ever happened since trucks were invented.
But, I guess it could.

So I guess that is reason enough not to have in-cab 5th wheel releases.

This poster sounds too much like someone that said, 'we need to pass this bill, so that we can see what's in it'.

 

Hollywood doesn't need a reason, I'm assuming since cars have like 10 gears in movies trucks will have 30 as well and I bet you'll see a Pete ride a wheelie for a long time and then drift a corner and the nos will blow the floor plans and the mad Scientists will have to rebuild it.

 

According to Hollywood, you can release the jaws on the fifth wheel when the power unit is half hanging off a cliff, and the only thing keeping it from going over is the trailer its attached to.

Quick... name the movie!

And yet I've never gotten grease on my clothes from releasing a fifth wheel while not having this feature. How ever did I manage that?

 

You Sir Are One Bad Mother lol