The only dump valves that i have operated was for the drive axels and when i used to drag 3 axel trailers so the third most forward axel on the trailer would not be active under light or empty loads.... Having said that i have seen flats with standard spread axels with the dump for the forward axel. I just have never drove or should i say pulled one.
Maverick .... from a wife's perspective
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No pics of the motor. There isn't much to see anyway. I have a 2007 Winnebago Tour motor home. There is a pic of it in my photo album. It is a 40-foot diesel pusher. When you open the engine compartment in the back, you don't see much. Just the place to check and fill the oil, coolant, and a little indicator for the air filter. You can see the air filter canister on the left side but you have to get to it from underneath. RC says it's easy to get to. As I understand it, if major engine work needs to be done, the mechanics remove the bedroom mattress and the board it sits on to get to the engine from that direction. Otherwise you work from the bottom.
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Redcoat spent the night at the consignee. Oh yeah, I found out that he picked up the load of channel in Cayce, SC. When he arrived, he went ahead and removed all the chains and then tossed the tarps back over the load and held them in place with just a few bungees. It looked a mess but it gave him a head start for the morning.
He is learning as he goes. He knows there is a certain way to fold the canvas tarps but he kind of rushed through it last night and they weren't exactly right. The consequences of this is that if they aren't folded just so, it's difficult to put them into the storage box. He managed to get them in and the door closed but now he knows that next time he needs to make sure the job is done neatly to make it easier to get them into the box.
Redcoat is always very self-critical of his backing skills so he was proud of himself this morning that he got a perfect 45-degree angle to the shed on the first try. Then they opened the doors and he had to back straight into the shed so that took away the enjoyment of his great backing job as now he had to back the rest of the way into the shed and that took him a couple of tries.
There were a couple other Mav drivers there. One had been with the company 17 years and the other 14 years. They told RC that he would probably get shingles and that it would be an all-day affair and good luck on getting home this weekend.
They were right. RC got his dispatch to pick up a load of shingles in Frederick, MD and take them to Hickory Hills, IL for delivery on Monday. The good news is he can drop off the tire with the nail in it at the yard in Gary. The other drivers told him to make sure the shipper doesn't load him full up because of the extra weight of the tire. He also thinks that maybe this load won't have to be tarped so that will be nice.
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Tell him if he ever decides to cut thru the woods coming out of there not to take 40 in PA unless it is daylight and not raining....
My wife and I cut thru there one night and she kept saying I wish it was light so I could get some good pics. I told her I don't think you would want to see this in the daylight. A heavy load of shingles is not the way to go when you can't see past the hood on that road... There is some steep drops and curves on that bad boy....
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Got a kick out of Mrs. RC post about the other Mav drivers telling Redcoat
he was gonna get shingles, I thought of the medical condition when I first read it, lol ..
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The specialized division does have dump valves on the flatbeds ,they dump both axles at the same time,it is not used for turning, they are dumped when you get parked in position to unload, the glass is very top heavy and dumping the bags keeps the the rocking to a minimum. You also have to keep cranking down the landing gear as the load gets lighter. the weight really shifts from side to side when unloading . you dont want to forget to dump em. (or stand next to the trailer when unloading.) the new double drops dump automatically when you pull the trailer brake.sarge26044 Thanks this. -
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