For everyone that does this.....

It's a chassis .. probably took all his might to get those pads up just that high.

 

Meh tractor airbags are not inflated. When aired up, should get just enough clearance to just clear most of the Rail Road tracks.

 

Laziness or negligence usually comes with an unforeseen ‘stupid tax’ attached.

 

-OR- the guy who wouldn't crawl in to crank the legs and dragged it out of the line one the dirt.

Had a port driver do just that while standing there with 6 lawyers and an accident recon person...the empty can reveberates a sound that makes everyone look!

 

Never hauled intermodal have you? Chassis landing gear is frequently bent and some have never been or greased/serviced since the chassis was built in 1979, yeah, it probably took all the drivers might/energy to crank that gear that much. I've had chassis where the gear was stripped, you'd get a few cranks in low, then a few cranks in high, then a few in low, and in between it's slip a tooth and you're grabbing for air to keep from falling over.

 

That did change some when the steamship lines stopped providing chassis. Once I convinced our owner to stop leasing refurbs an stick with new long term leases [had close to 700 at one point] we saw little landing gear problems and our roving maintenance vendor did grease them correctly!