Popping sounds while making shrap turns

I think Swaan has it. If you've got diffs locked in its gonna want to go straight and its going to fight when you try to turn. Its no different than trying to make a tight turn on pavement with 4wd engaged on a pickup truck.

 

My guess is he engaged his diffs to climb over this curb and never took the locks out.

All that popin noise is his front spring hangers begging for mercy.

I'd fire that driver in about 10 min if he worked for me

Oh , and fifth wheel location has nothing to do with it.. other then he probley pulled that switch while engaging his diff locks.

 

No one should ever engage diff locks for curbs. Come on the #### thing is 4 inches high.

Now... if it is a foot high curb.. sure the interlocks go in after a pause just before the drives touch the #### thing at a angle. The consideration is two...

First the one axle will angle up and rub the trailer frame potentially trapping everything.
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Second the axle will raise up and the internal axle that transmit power loses contact with the center housing diff and you are stranded.

and third I wont attempt a one foot curb, Ive already had some damage in the past from those #### things. And no one is gonna be firing me provided I hit the dealership with parts and labor out of my wallet first. Ooh nice mudflaps thank you sir. Where did you get them? Huh? I don't know. Didnt you put em on he he he.

 

Yeah well they never said how high the curb is did they..
Ive seen some funky #### by some real "special" drivers.

 

My worst concrete night mare was coming out of a shipper. They said go out this gate and only this gate. They were hostile with me eariler for something I forgot why. Bad shippers. Kicked me out empty.

That gate turned out to be a strip of pavement that went vertical 8% down to a two lane road. The two lane was off a cliff also. SO there is NO chance whatsoever of making a left or right without going over cliff. Ergo reasony why I was told to leave by this gate.

I sit there and examine the battle situation. T the top of he T is the two lane road.

Right below that T is a 4 foot deep 3 foot wide concrete drainage way. Sort of a fancy ditch all the way along the right side of that stupid cliffside road. By now I got a crowd gathering at the gate pointing and laughing...

I forced the tractor into the opposing lane of that two lane road in a right turn. I deliberately closed my eyes, my ears, my mind to the destruction fixing to happen to my trailer. The thing came down onto the ditch, bounced across and slammed onto the two laner after I applied big time power viciously on that 550 detriot. I had a 100 plus mph super truck in that time. I poured black/brown from my clutch plates forcing the trailer across. KABOOMM....

Aint never heard a word from the company anywhere about that blessed trailer. Not a nail or wood out of place, all wheels intact and tires in place. It did bent my catwalk. I had to have the company shop replace it.

They were talking about that for weeks. What the &^%$ did you do to that &*() catwalk? (The lip of the 5th wheel plate nose of the trailer bit down against the catwalk and tractor frame violently as the back end boucnced.... but they don't know that.

 

Holy,, that sounds like some serious Dukes of hazzard kinda stuff right there.
Braaaaap!!!

 

I believe it. Lots of special drivers down your way.