Check out my trailer, lol. Never even seen one like it before.

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I know, it was preloaded at DOW in Hayward, CA. When I found it I was like WTH is all this crap. It also has more lights on it than a Christmas tree. It has these two red lights hanging off the bumper really low to the ground. They seem kinda gimmicky at first but I tell you backing into the hole this morning was the easiest back ever. Those lights really give you an easy reference and help you judge how far you are from the line. I like them.

 

Well I found an issue. Took off from Lake Havasu Loves and the first bump I hit absolutely destroyed the inside of my truck, stuff went everywhere including things that have never fallen. I knew immediately something was wrong, bad wrong and I figured something had gone wrong with the suspension.

But since the skirts go all the way around there is no access to under the trailer. Finally, I found an angle where I could inspect the airbags and sure enough they don't have air. Hmmmm, now what could have changed to cause this because it wasn't a problem last night? Well I don't know but I saw a valve under the trailer axles but again no way to get in. Finally, and you can see this from the pic, I climbed the ladder and kinda jumped in between the skirt and trailer and then duck walked all the way back and flipped that valve. Air bags start to inflate problem solved. I zip tied the valve. Problem solved.

Now they designed this in a way where you can see all of your lines and stuff from outside the skirt, you can even see the very bottoms of your airbags but can't tell if they are inflated. Basically I am going to have to call Safety because this isn't going to work.

A. PTI is not as thorough.
B. I assume nobody wants me jumping into that little space and duck walking back.
C. Access in needed. How am I going to break loose frozen brakes, zip tie brake lines that come loose etc? All things that us truckers fix regularly.
D. Any maintenance in general, particularly road side, is going to be dangerous and difficult.