trailer off tracking

That's definitely dog tracking, off tracking or crabbing (that's a bit old and Low Country Southeast - because crabs walk sideways. Ever hear an older driver from the Low Country talking about his trailer crabbing, he's sayin' it's off tracking) then. Take it to a shop, though, instead of cranking a loaded trailer. Just a couple quick points on that and I'll bow out:

We get paid to deliver freight; not shake it. The term Freightshaker is just funning at Freightliner and not to be taken seriously. The roads do enough shaking for us without us slinging the trailer around. It's a bad day when you have a damage claim and they find out it was because of a hard steering maneuver because a LOT of these modern ECM's have gyros and steering component sensors in them that monitor the rig for stability and hard steering at certain speeds as well as hard brakes. These days, the ECM can pretty much tell the company what size underwear the driver wares and if it has skid marks or not. Just sayin' . . . be mindful of the ECM data you create and why.

If cranking it does fix it: SOMETHING IS LOOSE! The alignment components are designed and engineered to remain stationary outside mechanical adjustment so if you can move something back, that was moved before, it's moving when it shouldn't be and needs to be repaired before it moves the wrong way at the wrong time and someone has a REALLY bad day because it causes an . . . say it with me . . . ACCIDENT.

Be cool all. Peace out.

 

I thought all signs went over one way then the other. Oh wait. My bad. I'm thinking of sines, not signs.