to all end dump haulers...

Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by leo319, Jan 25, 2012.

  1. NightWind

    NightWind Road Train Member

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    The springs are another way albeit a rough way to stop the privet action the 5th wheel.
     
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    Fruehauf was sued over their design when a young man with a tandem axle trailer and pickup backed next to a frameless end dump ( Fruehauf) at a landfill. The driver of the pickup was killed and his parents proved that that design of trailer was more vulnerable to turning over. Never mind the fact that the young man backed in next to the end dump which turned over and killed him.
     
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    At least it’s easy to put a radio in a 379.

    In a 579, not so much. :confused:


    I might not be too far behind you. I hate heat.
     
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    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    We've always had a rule that the driver keeps at least two trailer lengths away from any other vehicle or from people on the ground.
    A few years ago we were dumping shot rock on a road wash-out. The foreman on the job didn't want any dead time for the trucks...paid by the hour...so he was dumping four or five trucks at a time, all lined up within a couple of feet of each other.
    Our drivers refused to do it and called me at the office. I went to the job site and the foreman threatened to sign my trucks out. I told him not to bother because I was pulling the trucks off the job. There was the usual and expected amount of yelling but I had the trucks go home anyway.
    Two days later, with four trucks dumping side by side one of them went over and took the other three with it. Kinda like dominoes but a lot noisier. Nobody got seriously hurt but all four trailers were dinged up.
    The contractor's insurance company raised hell and the foreman got demoted.
     
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    OK at least we'll both know someone there if we both go LOL
     
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    Kudos to you
    I refuse to dump with anyone near me either on the ground or in another truck. I've gotten cussed out more than once over it but it's my rule so everyone goes home even if the trailer goes over. What's 5 minutes verses maybe not going home at all.
     
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    There are only two trailers to pull: an end dump and a cattle /livestock trailer end of story.
     
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    I had someone raise hell at me once for standing up a 30’ steel body next to another truck at a paved mulch yard.

    This was of course back in younger and stupider days when I was unfamiliar with dump trailer etiquette.
     
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    I hear you.
     
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    They guy that trained me would do it but I saw a trailer go over on another truck cab and it took 3 hours to get him out (Unharmed but scared). I decided that day I'd never allow it around me even if I had to move.
     
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