Cascadia drivers...

Wow, you even have instructions with yours lol

 

Ok, then make sure brakes are set, pull button out, you will hear jaws open, push in yellow button, ease out from under trailer and once clear push jaw button back in. Make sure to dolly legs down first, LOL.

 

oh you meant the jaws,,thought you were talking 5th wheel slide. Dash lock on jaws just seems a bad idea considering. All I have ever had are manual and some are double locked with a manual pull on both sides of 5th wheel

 

None at all, it’s a fail safe in case the switch malfunctions. Might want to have an extended hook depending on how short the handle is. My cascadia gets me dirty if I don’t use one.

 

It's not electric. It's pneumatic. Same system that unlocks the 5th wheel slider pins, it just releases the jaws instead.

That said, yes you can manually pull the lever to release, but you are also pulling against that pneumatic piston so it can feel like there is still pressure on the kingping. But your not fighting the kingpin, you are fighting that cylinder.