And if you do drop your trailer to scamper about, always use a king pin lock for some added insurance against the trailer being stolen.
Come to think of it... I should have done that with the last (only) trailer that was swiped from me.
Delivering a load at night at a Target store in SLC and I'm low on hours. They tell me to drop it in the dock and pull away, park over on the side. In the morning the paperwork will be in the trailer.
When I got up the trailer, and paperwork, were gone.
It turned out to be another Swift driver looking for an empty. Took it from the dock, when he/she could see that it was mine. Since it was assigned to me the DM must have done some fancy footwork to get it reassigned.
He got burned in the end though. Had to go through the Swift terminal, maybe for fuel or something, and they inspect every trailer as it comes in. The trailer had a cracked brake lining and was red flagged. I found it there when I went in to find a new empty.
Some people are such jerks.
But the king pin lock would have prevented it from happening in the first place.
Where can you drop a trailer and leave it?
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Certain support of specific wood cut to minimum thick, width and length plus numbers of them under the gear will take care of that.
I had a trailer do that, punch through black top once. Fortuntaely I was monitoring the drop and got back under it before one leg has managed to complete it's softspot square hole.
What I should have done is swing by lowes and got a nice bag of black to pound that into the hole. Convert all that time wasting irrevelant yelling and spittle into a groveling thank you.
Trailer stays with you unless you gain permission to drop in a designated spot within a friendly truckstop with gatekeeper security who has the same list of dropped trailers as well. It's relatively rare. -
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1) You kinda covered it in your parenthesis, not all trailers have GPS,
2) Even if they did, a GPS device doesn't prevent someone from stealing it. Those devices only make it easier to find after the fact,
3) A knowledgeable thief will be able to disable the GPS tracker
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We will tow it if left unattended.
If you get permission make sure to drop it on concrete, out of the way so you do not screw up the privilege for everybody else. -
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