Saia?

that part on the left just needed a slight bend with some pliers, i think to keep it from vibrating loose.

 

I was kinda waiting to see what is was too..lol.. Con-way pups are set up for single axles so the landing gear is closer to the front - makes it a pain pulling sets with twinscrews.. I remember Watkins used to have those lowered on every pup against the dock. Estes has landing gear that are set back for twins too. I actually have a pic on my phone of a Con-way pup that took a nose dive but I can't figure out how to post pics from my phone here. It had a tow motor turned sideways in the nose and it went butt up when it was dropped..lol..

 

This I believe is called a Nose pin. I have never seen one of them come loose if hooked properly. There are others that use a straight bolt with cotter pin, and other strange concoctions which hold the bar up.
If it came undone I tend to believe that whomever hooked it up did not do it properly and possibly you missed it on your pretrip. Just my thoughts.

 

I didn't know what it was either lol. Like jakebrake said the same with our trailers are mostly set for single screws. The twin screws have to slide the fifth wheel back for our pups

 

Sorry for the triple post thought it didn't go thru lol

 

I run a twin screw but other terminals that pull alot of trips run alot of single and twins. I've pulled Yellow trailers and have to take off the flaps even though I move my fifth all the way back to clear. Some of our twins can't even pull a Yellow trailer had to jump in a Volvo to pull it. When ever I pull pups gotta move my fifth all the way back.

 

That's what it looked like before I left the yard. That's properly hooked. Haven't have one drop on me but twice in a year they've unhooked. We have the cotter pin ones too but more rare then these. The hanger just get worn out over time being in circulation. I learned that they drop from a senior driver who had one drop on him. We don't get written up or fired for it if they do.

 

You pull the Rocky Mountain set so doesn't surprise me you use a twin screw. Our twin screws have no problem with the flaps though. Our 755 twin screws from roadway pull the best out of them all, followed by the 785s. But our Yellow 47 units which are normally triples units singles pull the best. But the thing is it can be a Volvo, sterling, or freightliner. I've only driven the volvos and not sure what they do to them BUT THEY PULL. Only problem is a lot of them are governed at 59 due to triples guys crying they get speeding tickets too much. So they will do 59 loaded or empty

 

Gah! When I was with DATS in SLC, the first time I got to cover for the most harda$$ driver we had, I had to use his Sleeper truck with a full set of triples. The lead box was an old Condor Trailer. No one had ever told me about the landing gear being different on those than Our other sets. I hook up and get rolling. 300 miles later I get to the barn in st. George,UT and I see the mudflaps looking like spaghetti. God, that was the longest Drive home! Got yelled at by Dispatch, The MEchanics, and Him.....over mud flaps.

 

Yeah our old blue roadway volvos fit those pups easy with flaps. That's the Volvo I jumped in. The white Volvos do pull well, Ours are set at 62mph. Man 59 would kill me.