Screwed by bad yard spotter?

Probably the right call.
With those close quarters it would be easy to do some damage. Best to leave the damage for the yard dog.

 

You put the wood on top of the 5th wheel, dump air bags and back under trailer. Lift air bags and hook up red air line and ease forward enough to crank handle, raise legs a little, dump air and drop trailer and pull forward enough to take the wood out. Hook as usual. Put the wood back on the flatbed you took it from lol

 

Scottie and Baha both have viable solutions to this, outside of waiting for the yard dog to come. Of course, Baha's solution requires not trailer on the other side of the trailer and might not work if it's dropped so high the kingping doesn't touch the 5th wheel at all. But I've done it before when chassis/container or trailers were dropped too close to it's neighbor to crank the landing gear. Just don't slam it as this maneuver will put stress on the landing gear in general.

And Scottie's trick will work as long as the kingpin plate isn't completely slathered with fresh grease and assuming you have some wood. You'd be surprised just how far you can move without actually having the kingpin locked... I speak from experience... lol

 

Speaking as a yard dog, are you sure that the yard dog left the trailer too high, and not the driver that dropped the trailer there in the first place? My facility has a driver on duty 24 hours so we pull them out for drivers all the time.

Smart move not moving that other companies trailer. If something is wrong with that trailer and you dont know about it, guess who gets the blame?

 

Being careful what I say, I have had some terrible experiences with yard dogs. Some clearly have a gripe about road drivers, and boast to their other yard dog buddies, how rough they can make it for the road driver. Parking trailers tight, is SOP. A few inches here and there, they get another wagon in the line up. But to be down right belligerent about it, like hiding when it comes to dragging a trailer out of a mudhole. I have a friend, who got into an argument with a yard spotter at the RR facility in Neenah, Wis. The trailer was dropped TIGHT agin 2 others, in a mudhole. My friend asked politely, could he shag the wagon for him. The guy just laughed. My friend turned around, and roundhoused him in the jaw, the guy went flying to the ground, my friend was banned from the facility.THAT, my friends, was trucking like I remember it!!

 

Shoot I'd probably get hit a few times if it was still like that and I'd still rather it be like that. I've met a few jerk that need to loose a few teeth but nowadays the police get involved and jail time and it's just not worth it.

 

Could have just lowered it a half crank at a time until it was low enough to hook, hook it, then lower it enough not to drag on the ground while you pull it out. Once it's out crank it freely. Had to do it plenty of times in big city lots.

 

Nah just do what every other company driver and yard jockey does. Drag it and bend the legs so bad the next guy throws his back out cranking them up.

 

Now I'm going have to get a couple of short 4x4's. I pick up all the time at Tyson in Center, Tx when coming off hometime. They love dropping trailers way to close and usually too high.

 

It takes a lot of wood to raise that tractor up. A lot.

Wood between the 5th wheel and trailer is just waiting to roll out of that greasy 5th wheel and plate. When that trailer slides off, it make a nice mark in the trailer it is next to, so enjoy your preventable.

If the trailers are close together sometimes you can walk you trailer over a couple of inches needed to make things work by backing up into the kingpin off to one side and using the apron of the 5th wheel to move things over. Do it a couple of times you can easily move a trailer a foot or two.

Not in this case though. From that picture things look too tight and too high. I would have emailed that photo along with a trailer damage claim to dispatch after putting in a message saying I will be late for delivery. Let someone else worry about that preventable and wait for yard jockey.