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Help! Trailer sitting on locking pins

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by SABTLLC, Jun 12, 2018.

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  1. Jun 12, 2018 #1
    SABTLLC

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    Does any one know how to get the doggone trailer back on the frigging locking pins??? Our driver just sent us two pictures and the dang trailer is sitting ABOVE the doggone locking pins. How in the heck am I supposed to tell him how to have that fixed while on the road...
     

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  3. Jun 12, 2018 #2
    mr truckdriver

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    Is it loaded or empty. Either way need to pick up the trailer from the back to take the weight off the pins so they will retract.
     
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    razor1983

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    What the hell? How did he manage to do that?
     
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    Chinatown

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    Did he try a sledge hammer?
     
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    baha

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    If its loaded you must jack up trailer or call a tow truck and beat the pins in, or if empty get a big hammer to beat pins in till it drops down
     
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    Snailexpress

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    If trailer is empty slide carefully tandems all the way back. Carefully!!!!! Not to slide the tandems out of under trailer.
    Forklift or two jacks under DOT bumper to lift trailer tail and retract pins.
     
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    STexan

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  11. Jun 12, 2018 #9
    plankton

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    He some kinda sissy or something? Tell him to pull that handle like he's got a pair!
     
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  12. Jun 12, 2018 #10
    STexan

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    Maybe a sledgehammer and somebody holding a piece of steel or pipe. These wil have to be beaten back inside. Just make sure to use something that's bigger than the hole so it doesn't end up being bound inside after the trailer pin pushes through.

    You're not going to be able to use the springs and linkage and handle to "pull them" into the retracted position
     
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