In-cab 5th wheel release

Hey highballin- they (the landing gear) ain't completely automatic! You still have to get out and work the control (on the front of the pup).

 

What we need is an IN CAB VALET (driver's helper) to get out and deal with the landing gear, glad hands and fifth wheel release.

Oh, and I'll take my coffee black, 2 sugars, thanks!

 

Isn't that called your wife????

Mark

 

Hey wallbanger Big Don has something there about the Valet but not the wife she would tell you thats not my job tell you to go get scr_ _ _ _d get mad if you did.LOL.

 

HaHA! Ain't that the truth!

I thought that's what kids and co-drivers were for!

 

You beat me to it!

 

In the Canadian oilfield they call that a Swamper. He usually rides with crane trucks (pickers) so he can run chain and just do everything the crane operator needs him to do. The driver/crane operator gets to sleep in the sleeper, and the swamper sleeps on the passenger seat!

 

The same here, I was always told it was illegal. You would need a lot of safety devices to make sure you didn't hit it by accident.

 

next time I am at work I will snap a photo of one of these nightmares and post the photo...


we were all like you guys and a little taken back by such a "DO NOT TOUCH" button right on the dash!

 

Latanea, that sounds like the last truck I drove for central trans. Like I had said, it was a daycab that had been used as a switcher, so between the seats it had a pedestal with a PTO ON/OFF switch, a handle to run the 5th wheel up/down, and a 5th wheel release button (a big red flat knob, right about where the inside armrest would be!LOL!). Well, on that truck there was NO SAFETY to deactivate it (while driving).

How did I find that out? I was bobtailing, and when I got it up to about 30 mph, I hit the switch and I heard the air release activate! Needless to say, when I was in that truck, I was always careful about where I was trying to rest my right arm!