Do you pull doubles/triples? How are dollies taken care of in winter?

Something to cost to build, then cost to maintain, and cost to fix when 10 drivers a day want to leave marks on the load bearings beams.

All for a couple snow storms a year? It would be far cheaper to pay you hourly a maintenance rate to make the dolly safe and operable.

 

Spent 12 years at FedEx Ground and never saw con gears put under any type of awning or cover of any kind, and that goes for every where else I have worked, unfortunately it's just one of those things you deal with in the winter, when I worked up north I would grab my front box first and then throw the dolly on, if brakes were froze which wasn't often, I would hook up the dolly airlines to the trailer in a tag configuration and charge the trailer brakes but leave the tractor brakes set, maybe run some air line anti freeze through the lines, then open the trailer air valves and let the dolly air system charge up, it worked pretty much every time and the dolly wheels would roll, finish hooking up the dolly to the trailer and then go hook to my second trailer that way.

 

And DT is spot on, unless things have changed, like FXF, FXG was not open to any suggestions either, I lost count of how many nights we tried to convince our dispatch not to send us with triples because we knew there would be chain controls going east, but oh no we need to run triples, sure enough controls would go up, and the next day there would be FXG trailers along with a dolly, dropped at various chain up areas,truck stops and rest areas around Winnemucca, Golconda and the bottom of Emigrant along the I 80.