Sliding Axle Jumped The Rail/Pins

I wouldn't leave the property with it. It's not your Trailer simple...If the tandems come out your done if the kill someone your really done . Let them spend some money and keep yourself and the public safe....

 

Petro has some carbon stainless steel stoppers you can purchase. 4 30 pound gigantic pinstoppers you can put into a hole and slide. When the slide reaches the stainless carbon pins it will get stopped. Throw the widowmaker and jiggle. And that is that. Make sure you count the stoppers and have them secured in the box or under the bunk Those things go through cars next to you easily.

 

I've been to a lot of places with a goat, and I've never seen it done before. The most they do is open the doors and put a jack stand under the front. Other than that, they don't seem to like getting off the truck.

 

If for any reason you need to move a trailer that you can't lock the pins in place and secure the tandems from moving leave the blue line unhooked so you don't lose the tandems.. also I would never take a trailer like that on a public road

 

I have seen this very same thing and it was driver error!
A guy loaded bottled water up in PA...was going down 81 and came up on stopped traffic.
He hit the brakes and BAM!...The tandems slid all the way back and jumped up off the rail!.

I got his attention and he went about a half of a mile to find a spot to pull off the highway.
He admitted that he slid the tandems after getting loaded but just listened for them to lock....never actually looked.

I helped him get it back down and the pins locked and off he went!.....No way in hell I would have pulled it after that until the guides were replaced.They were bent really bad!

 

Bet he dropped that trailer ASAP and never said a word about it.

 

Let me ask you this.

First off listening for the lock indicates a failure to get out of that #### cab and jiggle that widowmaker to lock it. It's going to be either in a hole or half of one and a little pull will make a lock clear to even the most hard of hearing it's locked. Hell I can hear em lock. Why did he not get out? Did he say?

Anyone sliding tandem and then punching off brakes and heading out on the road is absolutely going to lose that set in a interesting way. That I don't want as a driver.

 

He never said why he did not look to verify they locked.....It was an air release system on the pins so maybe he just was too dang lazy to walk back and look! Either way that was a bone head move!
Those air release systems are nice but I would never trust they were locked without looking!

 

Drivers are lazy. Ain't nothing anyone can do about it.

Lazy drivers are EVERYWHERE. I see it all the time at home.

 

Well snowwy, all I can say is that you need to get all those lazy drivers out of your home!