Got swapped onto me. Unless I’m trying to find the best trailer, I had only been inspecting after getting under them or checking the height if it felt off. Road breakdown said it can wait until after delivery; is it a violation to roll with it?
Other driver dropped it loaded and took off with my good one.
Landing gear
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If not, make somebody fix it.
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That crack looks to be a bit old. I would run with it, my last few years of driving I remember yanking many trailers with bent and cracked landing gear. I may be wrong, but I don't think this is part of the CVSA OOS criteria.
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You better check with the delivery customer and make sure they’re not like Wally World and make you drop the trailer in the door and pull your truck out from under it.
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IMO, you did the right thing, notifying your road service department. They said run with it. Run with it unless you want to lose a days pay messing with getting it repaired.
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Not really a hard fix. Easy to get to and just a bead weld after some persuasion.
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I had notified after hours dispatch; I then mentioned it to my day dispatcher and he wants me to keep rolling and pickup my next preplan. I told him that breakdown explicitly told me not to drop it until at a shop… he said they would make other arrangements if needed.
It’s all on the Qualcomm so I hope it covers my ###.
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Some drop and hook shippers and receivers inspect landing gear before accepting a trailer. Hopefully your next stop is not one of those.
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