tandem sliding

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    kevinjones03 Bobtail Member

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    im prolly gonna get laughed at for this, but ive pulled tankers all of my truck driving career(10 years), had my first opportunity to pull my first 53'reefer 2 weeks ago. i had to slide the tandems back because the dock i backed into, the trailer was sitting to high with the wheels so far forward. my question is, are there some trucks and trailers equipped with in-cab controls to unlock the pin to slide the tandems, or are they all manual.
     
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    are there some trucks equipped with in cab controls to slide tandems? or is it all manual?
     
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    We wish !!!!!
     
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    all are manual, although some are air operated, but still from the trailer, you think they make it easy on us.....lol, same thing with landing gear, that could be run off air too, to crank the legs.............but hey, why, they got a body in the trk......lol
     
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    landing gear on some are air............
     
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    Would be easy to do if you had the air assist slider, although it's probably the only excercise most of these guys get so let them do it manually. (or just buy a spread and be done with it :yes2557:)
     
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    Why are you asking the same question in two places? The answers will be the same.
     
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    I don't need to worry about sliding anything with my reefer:biggrin_25525:

    If everything was air operated as suggested above, drivers would get absolutely zero exercise. It's bad enough the way it is, regarding exercise!
     
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    I've seen a few trailers with air assist tandems. Walk back, pull a button, and supposedly the pins will retract so the tandems will slide. Kinda nice when it works. But I guess that sometimes it doesn't worklike it's supposed to, so the driver still gets the joy of hammering on the pins, and rocking the truck, and all that other neat stuff to get the pins to loosen and retract so the tandems can slide. I used to slide the tandems on a loaded trailer back and forth whether I needed to or not. Makes the tandems easier to work with next time, or for the next driver.
     
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    If you ever get one that's air release on the trl the trl brakes must be set and each hole is 500 to. 750 lb per hole sliding it back puts more wt on drives and sliding up takes it off drives and yes got a chuckle on this one
     
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