Stupid LTL question

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  1. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    I was tripling back home last night when I was hit with a massive snow storm. Long story short, there is an empty trailer sitting on the side of the mountain with a con infront of it. I am lazy as hell and was wondering, is it legal/safe to hook the con to the truck, then back the con under the trailer and tow it that way? I have the airline hookup on the back of my truck and everything!

    I can see it coming "holy Christ R/R, quit being so ####### lazy and put the con on the back". The bloody thing is sitting on an incline and if I bump it, it will roll down a 5% grade.... For about two miles. Don't wanna take out a four wheeler or a school bus full of orphans.
     
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    Called chock the tires
     
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    I don't carry chocks. The company doesn't issue them.
     
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    Thought it was no good to drop a trailer with the converter hooked up under it?
     
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    It isn't underneath the trailer. The con's fifth wheel is resting against the trailer apron.
     
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    Id say if D.O.T. caught you doing that, it would cost you a lot of money. The only reason you have a pindle hook on back of your truck is to move converter dollies around. Why not hook to the Con and pull it to a safer place to hook it (i.e. somewhere flat). Then go get your trailer and swing by and pick up the dolly? Id ask the company for a couple of chocks, if they don't have them, get your own, you will need them puling doubles/triples. If you are lazy, you are not going to like trucking. Be safe.
     
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    Please post a picture if you decide to pull it like that, ive always wanted to try that
     
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    Ive had times where ive had to hook a set on an incline, and my dolly rolled away when i released it and hooked up to the trailer, had to pull it out with the dollys chains lol
     
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    Wow, I had a long answer all typed out here. For some reason, before posting it, I went back and read you original post, and realized that I had totally misread it. . .:biggrin_25513:

    Anyway, I don't know about the legality of it, but it doesn't seem to me like it would be safe. You would be taking all the weight off your drive axles and placing it on the gear, with nothing but the tow bar connecting the gear to your truck. Seems to, that as squirrelly as bobtails are as just a tractor, they would be much worse with the above configuration.

    You may be able to find rocks along the road to use as wheel chocks. You may be able to use the brake lines on the gear as wheel chocks. But since you know you will be going back for it, why not make life easy on yourself and take something with you that you can use. Blocks of wood, the head of a fork lift driver. . .you know, anything like that, that you find laying around your dock. . .:biggrin_25525:
     
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    I roll around the yard all the with a box and a gear looking for my back box and I always back and hook without disconnecting the gear form my front box.