Dry van trailer off slide rails

Wow, I dragged a lot of wagons, even rail vans, and I don't think I've ever seen one jump the holes like that. Those side clamps are supposed to prevent that. Must have been one heck of a bump,,like bounced over RR tracks empty?

 

Wait. Push the rails out? The cleats need to come in. Those rails help keep the tandems aligned. I hope they didn't bend those rails.

 

in all my 48 years, i ain't never seen that either.

i HAVE seen dummies slide the tandems, and drive off, with out locking the pins though.

 

A Come-Along is used to pull things together. Looks like the guy in orange is using a hydraulic porta power which pushes apart what it is placed between.

 

Saw the aftermath of a guy who went down the road with the tandem pins in; he hit his brakes HARD, the tandems slid ALL THE WAY BACK, hit the stop, and the front axles locked, the tandems pivoted on the locked wheels, then flipped over (pulling all the air lines out), with the trailer next crashing down on the flipped tandems onto the Mansfield bar, dragging the upside-down tandems about 1/4 mile down the highway.....

 

jesus h. christ...

i only have seen pics of say a rear-ended trailer, where the tandems are knocked out from under the trailer.

 

Yep, made a bunch of calls for that. Always because the slider handle was left out, or pins weren't locked in. First time brakes are hit hard, all the way to the back it goes, jumps and sits on the pins above the cleats.

I always supported the back of the trailer with jacks, removed the cleats, dumped the air bags, then lowered the jacks.

And installed new cleats

 

Weird how many of you have never seen this. We probably get 1 or 2 calls a month for this, not a crazy amount, but definitely not uncommon for us.