Damage to trailer

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by wildwood, Sep 16, 2012.

  1. wildwood

    wildwood Bobtail Member

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    Any one ever heard of damage to the roof of a trailer ,caused by shippers use of those air bags to hold pallets in place. Thanks wildwood
     
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  3. snowman01

    snowman01 Road Train Member

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    Damage caused by an airbag itself? No, I've not seen airbags that tall being used and they are made from plastic lined thick paper so I don't see how they could damage a roof. Can you explain how this happened?
     
  4. rodknocker

    rodknocker Road Train Member

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    Maybe they aired it up with propane and tried to put a cigarette out with it
     
  5. Mark Kling

    Mark Kling Technology Contributor

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    Usually they are in front, back, or to the sides.. never heard of one against the roof.
     
  6. Noggin

    Noggin Road Train Member

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    only damage i've ever seen/received was because the dumb dumb loading the trailer lifted the forks too high and the mast hit the roof, or the load poked holes--whichever was higher at the time.

    As far as airbags are concerned, only thing I could think of would be inflating them to the point of splitting the rivets on the trailer walls, but even that seems ridiculous...
     
  7. wildwood

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    Not on top of plts, the bags were on the sides and the walls were bulging bad , he saw it and freaked out , they said dont worry about it , yeah right. we run a reefer with a chute , it can not work that way. no one hit the roof inside or out . no marks , of any kind.
     
  8. snowman01

    snowman01 Road Train Member

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    If the walls were bulging, and I have seen this quite a bit especially with the new ultra light trailers, how did that damage the roof?
     
  9. wildwood

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    the roof is sagging along with the chemlite insulation
     
  10. snowman01

    snowman01 Road Train Member

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    ok, gotcha
    I was scratching my head thinking of a dry van. Still, I can't say I've heard of damage to the roof. Even with the walls bulging a little. If I saw that I would probably stopped the loader and told them to air the bags up a little less.
     
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