Zipties to lock chassis pins.

Lol,well i use pink and yellow zipties,so when dot gets along side of me he can easily see the job is done allready,i figure it like this you have to twist da locks anyway once the operator drops it on yo back,mite as well do it and CYA! Sometimes DOT will be sitting on the exit at the ports,where u come in at and boy boy boy,GLAD IT AINT ME LOL

 

I seldom use zipties. We use our own chassis and there are a select few manufacturers whose pins or turnlocks will bounce out if you don't have then secured. But we are phasing them out of the pool. Aside from those most of our chassis turnlocks are secured by a spring loaded catch. Legal? Dunno. I haven't been on the backside of a scale house in a long long time to find out.

 

Hi Ebola, I couldn't remember, but I thought those turn pins had a spring loaded catch, and on occasion, those springs were broke, and like striker sez, a little piece of wire held it down. I mean, pretty basic stuff. Again, this is what we've come to in the trucking industry.

 

Who do you pull for? If u don't mind me asking

 

Are those the trucks with the white or silver KW on the door?

 

If I was going to stay with the container biz, I was going to buy a spread axle, aluminum chassis, and just do container lifts ( they still had "Z"-vans then). I would have had to get a different tractor, as well, as the old Pete just wasn't cutting it. Rather than do all that, I pulled the plug, altogether, and lived happily ever after. (company jobs, although, I still miss that ol' Pete

 

YES!!!! I've been wondering how long it would take them to do this!!! If they do....WOW!!!!!

I know Adrian Carriers has there own 40ft chassis and I've seen plenty of those 20-40ft extendable...man this would cut down in wasted time by quite a bit!!!!