Collapsing Trailer Jack-Legs on Transported Trailers

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by Big Texas Transport, Aug 18, 2023.

  1. JonJon78

    JonJon78 Road Train Member

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    The only other options I can thing would be, take a 2"strap and gut wrap the dolly so it doesn't go down, or nail your own dunnage down on the deck and then extract the legs onto them prior to take off for your trip...

    Honestly shipper should be on top of this not you.
     
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  3. Big Texas Transport

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    Good points. I had thought about tightening 6" or 8" hose clamps around those pull pins too. To prevent them from vibrating out during transport.
     
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  4. lester

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    How the heck would the pull pins have vibrated out and allowed the legs to drop? They are spring loaded and the weight of the trailer and tension of the chains or straps would also be holding them down. Never had a pin magically pull out hauling one behind the pickup
     
  5. Cattleman84

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    Now my curiosity is peeked... I may have to go dig one out of the junk pile and perform a "smoke wrench autopsy" to examine the inner construction and pin geometry...
     
  6. Big Texas Transport

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    It doesn't seem logical. But it happened five times and left my load unstable AF. Just out of the same curiosity a few others have expressed here, I may ask the manufacturer to weigh in.
     
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  7. Big Texas Transport

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    I'd be interested in what you find. There are different manufacturers of those particular legs, of course.
     
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  8. ducnut

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    IMO, you’re way overthinking this. You’ve learned what these trailers can do and you know, NOW, you need to set them on dunnage. I wouldn’t do anything else, especially regarding typing up stuff for for the company. Worry about you and move on, because you’ll find no one else seems to care. Sounds terrible, but, that’s where the industry is at.
     
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  9. Big Texas Transport

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    I get that, and I'm already there. I mainly wanted to know if there is already guidance or directive that I should have known to use dunnage right away. And should the shipper have known.

    I can't quote FMCSA regs like a preacher can quote scripture, but I'm fairly certain for this load (under 10K lbs.) it just says to restrain at the front and rear to prevent lateral, forward, rearward, and vertical movement using a minimum of two tiedowns. But nothing about the features of the carried load.
     
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  10. AModelCat

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    That'd make me nervous to trust that brand of jack. Drop the trailer with 80-100 square bales on and the leg just drops for no reason.
     
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  11. Cattleman84

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    If I can find one I will post some pictures... Not sure if we have any left. Alot of the junk pile has been hauled to scrap over the last couple years.
     
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