Schneider

For me I use an empty coolant can to place under the 5th wheel plate to force it the opposite way then drop air bags and move forward and trailer pops right back over.

Quick fix but at Schneider it was something that should never need to be done if you did your back their way.

 

When you back up near the trailer and get out to check and make sure the trailer skid plate is lower than the fifth wheel hinge before you back under it, how do you high hook?

I know it sounds like I'm being a smart ###, but I can't even imagine backing under a trailer without getting out first and assessing things. Keep in mind, I don't know everything either.

 

I wish you good fortune ahead. It's just a glitch. Time to call on @Chinatown he's the job guru.

 

Schneider has a stick up their butt about high hooking…….. someone lost a trailer and killed some one and they got sued over it……..

I’ve sent the pin over the fifth wheel a couple of times in 40 years ….. never any damage and got the pin back behind the fifth wheel by myself…….

 

You didn't "high hook", you "side hooked ", which amounts to the same thing. It sounds like when you went back the first time, you weren't aligned and the king pin went to the drivers side of the 5th wheel. The way you avoid this is when you were checking your height, step underneath and make a line with the center hole on the frame and the center of the locking jaws. The kingpin should be on that line. I've lost track of the number of guys I've had who think they're lined up while the truck is at a 15 degree angle to the trailer. It doesn't look like much when you're 5th wheel is still in front of the trailer, but you will miss the kingpin.

The incidents aren't the big problem. You not reporting them is. Schneider will work with you on most things, unless they feel you aren't being honest.

 

Yeah, Don almost lost the company on that one.