really prime?

If I owned or was leasing that truck (many prime drivers are lease), and knew that trailer packed to the celieng and heavy, or perhaps top-heavy, I would have disconnected no questions asked, as fast as possible. Let the wrecker deal with the trailer,...Not worth risking both. Either case,...connected or not,...wrecker was likely needed. They did the right thing i think. Less risk is better than more risk any day of the week.

 

He should have stayed hooked up to it and backed out of it.The landing gear leg closest to the lean will be the closest to the ground.If you crank the legs down then that one will hit the ground first.Keep cranking and that one gear will start to lift the tandoms off of the ground on that side.With the rear tandoms off the ground and the front cornor of the trailer off of the tractors tandoms,he can now back back on to the road and try the turn again.Depending on how far he has to back up to get back onto solid ground he may have to stop and lower the landing gear some more.The leg on the ground will be draging on the ground at first.I've helped drives with this before that had 36k on the trailer.

I've helped a Swift driver and on O/O when they droped their trailer tandoms.The Swift driver was ####ing bricks when he say his trailer tires three feet in the air.

 

All of Prime's accidents seem to happen at low speeds. Even the ones on the interstate

 

After they wreck,

do they still get their fuel bonus ??

 

He couldn't find a flatbedder with a chain willing to help?

Totally dumb move unhooking trailer there.

My guess is he was looking around for an easy spot to park and forgot he was driving a truck.

 

Unless it all drains out of the tanks..

 

Job Opening at prime

 

Probably the typical reason you hear anymore: "I forgot I had a trailer."

 

If that driver is a member here,

would he admit to doing that ?

 

Good thing some of you guys never make mistakes.


Looks to me that he didn't suspect the approach nor the departure angle to be a problem.

If he had enough traction to disconnect, I'm wondering why he couldn't get that trailer to move.