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RGN dragging the ground

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by Bdog, Dec 17, 2015.

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  1. Dec 17, 2015 #1
    Bdog

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    I have never pulled a RGN but I have been around them several times.

    I was parked on the side of a flat road this morning and a guy with a RGN hauling a dozer drove by going 70 mph and the bottom of the trailer was scraping the ground continuously as he went by. I heard a racket in the distance and looked up and saw it.I know they are low and often scrape going over bumps and such but this was constant. Is there some adjustment on the neck he had wrong or did he have other problems?
     
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  3. Dec 17, 2015 #2
    TripleSix

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    Other problems.

    1. Worn out and heavy loaded trailer.
    2. Possible spring ride suspension.
    3. Uninflated airbags.
    4. Frozen leveling valve.
     
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  4. Dec 17, 2015 #3
    Mudguppy

    Mudguppy Degenerate Immoralist

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    ^^^^This^^^^^

    Most newer RGNs if you look closely, have an "upward" bow in the middle. This is so when you are hauling extremely heavy, instead of a "flat" trailer getting a "downward" bow in it, it will more or less level out.

    The company I worked at last had one old POS RGN that had been abused and ragged on for years (before I even worked there...) that had gotten to the point where it had such a "downward" bow in it, even empty, that most of the tractors they had to haul it had to have the gooseneck set all the way up on the top notch just to get it of the ground. Made for real bad stress on the fifth wheels and some extra "maintenance" expenses....I refused to run that trailer because it was in such bad shape, even though the Pete I was driving had a higher sitting frame and tall rubber. Heck, sometimes with it loaded, the poor schleps that they actually did get to haul it would have to stop, crank the pony motor, and jack the neck up way past the last notch to get over anything as high as a small speedbump! Sad but true. One of the many reasons I moved on......
     
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  5. Dec 17, 2015 #4
    rank

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    5. D-9 dozer on a 35 ton trailer? :)
     
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  7. Dec 17, 2015 #5
    johndeere4020

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    5. Lazy
    6. Ignorant
     
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  8. Dec 17, 2015 #6
    Rontonio

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    7. Broken beam(s) (XL) and just hasn't come apart yet
     
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    Straight Stacks

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    8. Is Enough
     
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  10. Dec 18, 2015 #8
    RGN

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    9. Ladies dancing
     
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  11. Dec 18, 2015 #9
    Onetime47

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    If my memory serves me right I believe it's 10 Lords A leaping?
     
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  12. Dec 18, 2015 #10
    Rock 'n Roll Relocater

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    Welp...may as well finish it up....
    11 pipers piping.....
     
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