Can someone plz explain to me about sliding tandems

Be a lever on driver side by tires then get back in truck only push parking in then back up or pull forward depending on were you need to move it ..toward truck will more on trailer more back less on trailer and more on drives

 

I want to find the individuals who trained the poster (in school and OTJT) and beat the crap out of all of them. SMH.

Or did you not take notes to refer back to during times like this?

 

There are plenty of YouTube videos if your a visual learner

 

Op its best to ask other drivers at the place you weigh the load so that driver can help you.It doesn't sound like you're ready to go solo.

 

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That's just wrong Kyle.

 

I don't know what got into me today, the beast got out of the cage lol. I better go to bed.

 

I'm aghast.

If he is simply asking which direction to move them, that's fine. We all have brain fsrts.

If he's asking how to physically do it, then all i can do is shake my head.
Not only should it have been covered in school, it should have been explained on the very 1st load he and his trainer picked up.

This is trucking 101.

If the OP went to CDL school and had a trainer for any amount of time, then this explains enormously why we have thousands of "professional " drivers out here that do asinine crap...... like thinking its perfectly ok to pull over on the side of the road for any reason other than an emergency (doing your break isn't an emergency), clogging up the fuel island for reasons other than fueling, not using 4 ways when backing.....i could go on for days.

 

Please don't go on for days.

 

you do not have enough truck to get legal again. That load needs to be split up.

There is a set of pins back there which is pulled by a what I call a widow maker handle. It is a very unbelievably dangerous operation. Split your head like a ripe melon it will...

You would also have a set of machined pins to place into the hole ahead of the ones you want to stop at. Each hole adds weight, or takes away weight of your trailer tandems

Im not going to get explictly into trailer tandem school here. Sliding them can damage you, your truck, your cargo in a number of interesting ways that usually get you fired. So it has to be done with a LOT OF CARE. NOT YEEHAW... Lots of Care, very little to no Yeehaw. Follow me so far?

Each hole in those rails back there range from around 250 pounds to 750 if not more points transfer from your tandem to drives and vice versa. You need to look up your owners manual for that trailer to learn specifically what poundage you are moving per hole.

You need a set of childrens schoolboard chalk. So that when the tandem is sliding and reach those particular chalk marks, you go ahead and trip the widow-maker bar shut and GET OUT of there. Don't you be stupidly standing over those pins stooping to see closely if it did go into the holes... or out of them into your brain. CLANK! What a waste. One of the things, a great weakness I have is for human behavior when expressed in body language that should be corrected to save the live of same. I find it disabling funny and cannot get off the floor for laughing until it kills me soemtimes when it's natural or comes off correctly. (Im a deaf man, and literally body language is...)

Have a trainer teach you how to slide the #### things.

Remember this first rule above all other rules.... Thy driveshaft is too cheaply bought for thee. Thine is the easiest to break when pulling tandems with them. The fault lies with the Trucking Company's Officers in charge of buying, leasing, ordering and spec'cing trucks. They think a Spicer 1250 pound torque shaft will do just as good when 2000 pounds of torque is being applied to them from a 750 magnum engine. SNAP. The classic echoing sound of failure in scalehouses across all these United States. Let failure ring as the whole thing clangs to the pavement.