Drop and hook

Drop and Hook is Lyke a Boax of Chocklates

 

Or the trailer is too high/low. I love cranking a trailer loaded to max gross. Hooray. Oh, and I especially love when the hook part is still in a door. All the hassles of a live load with all of the hassles of a drop and hook (see scottied67's post).

 

Yeah this one really burns me. I can't fathom why it is so hard for so many people to properly set the landing gear. It's one of the easiest textbook procedures and somehow we will NEVER agree on how to do it correctly (remember "how to make a right turn"? Lol). some guys apparently think the nose of the trailer should be down at about axle height and the rest of us say crank landing gear to the ground and then just keep on cranking till your arm falls off.

 

No easier way to start a fight among truck drivers than discussing "how to do x", although asking how "how many miles to Y" or "which way to Z" are close.

 

Missing wheel, missing door, marker lights out, somebody forgot their lock, airline broken, missing cage key, accident damage left for you to take the blame for, tandems frozen into 4" of solid ice, full of disgusting meat juice, full of two week old rotting meat at a Tyson plant. Good times!!!

 

This trailer... it knows what it is, and it doesn't disguise it.

 

Riding THE HIGHWAY TO HELL!!!
Love me some AC/DC....

 

I go out for six weeks and may swap trailers once. The one I am currently hooked to, I picked up about 3 weeks ago when the reefer unit died on the last one I had. I pulled this one out of the shop from its 90 day service. Everything works, I know everything works, Breaks were measured, along with stroke, rubber is good, why would I want to drop it?

 

Hogging that good Trailer. Not a team perch at all....lol