Sliding(In Motion) Fifth Wheel

Sorry, i was a bit busy with work and Thanksgiving with family. I'll answer some questions I saw without going back through and quoting them individually.

First, there's mostly only one guy that drives this truck and he's been told if it affects his driving in any way it gets pulled off immediately. We only have two Internationals, which this is on one, and every driver avoids them like the plague. Most of us will wait for another truck to come in.

To the person that asked the manufacturer, it's Jost.

Someone else pointed out it changes at different speeds. I think it's 55 mph that it gets the closest and want to say it starts moving at 45 mph. I might be off on those numbers though.

I know a lot of people threw weight around as being a problem. For one, we generally pull no more than 15,000 pounds and even that is heavy. We do have loads that gross out but I don't think he does them much. As someone said, scales wouldn't be too much of an issue other than PrePass due to the speeds the system changes. With our low weights I doubt that would even be a problem.

To whoever was talking about the ride, we're talking about daycabs. There is no nice ride.

Most the things you guys are saying about it are the same thing all of us bring up. It's a test unit and was given to us. I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with it. I guess we'll see what happens this winter.

 

So I drove this truck yesterday. I was pretty surprised that there was no feeling or sound when it happens. Just a light on the dash lights up.

I will say I didn't like it on off ramps. If the ramp is the right speed it will start retracting back while you're in the curve of the ramp. I think that is enough for me to not want it.