Should I scale it

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by ibcalm19, Jul 15, 2019.

  1. RoadRooster

    RoadRooster Road Train Member

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    I suspect he cut somebody off on they highway and they pulled his his 5th wheel while he was at the buffet...just based on location and landing gear looks to be retracted. Or did a relay and forgot to do a tug test.
     
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  3. Espressolane

    Espressolane Road Train Member

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    Bet if you got a fork lift in the right spot to lift it, when it gets leveled, it could be zip tied together. Should be fine.
     
  4. SteveScott

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    Looks like somebody already tried it on that trailer. I swear, I look at some trailers that pass me on the highway and wonder how they are rolling at all. Saw a reefer a couple weeks ago missing the rear bumper and the casings that cover the reefer were all gone with the engine fully exposed to the elements. The trailerframe was solid rust, and there was a bolt seal on it, so it was under a load. If I were a shipper I would tell the guy to go away.
     
  5. Ridlingdj

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    I know what you mean I was sitting in a fuel Island one day stuck in the middle and couldn't tell what was wrong with that bumper on the truck in front of me for a fee minutes till I released that the dot bumper got ripped off and he replaced it with wood that he painted black and added tape to
     
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  6. FoolsErrand

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    The landing gear would lay over backwards if it fell off the hitch. That trailer failed when the passenger roof seem unzipped. Normally the rivets that hold the crossmember flanges to the side skirt extrusion rust and let go, which turns it to a belly dump. But that is a definite roof fail to me, looking from here.

    Im betting its got a load of brick inside. Or a forklift.. Something stupid.
     
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  7. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    I think shes a lil heavy there fellers
     
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  8. this is what happens when you own an older trailer and you ask some people do you know how to check your cross members under the trailer most give that deer-in-the-headlights look??
    Frozen and paralyzed like they don't know what you're talkin about..
     
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  9. FlaSwampRat

    FlaSwampRat Road Train Member

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    Maybe so but with the new modifications it's only like 8k on the tandems lol. I was always told 12 34 34, nobody never said nuffin about a extra contact point to me lol.
     
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  10. starmac

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    May have been heavy, but may have just been loaded stupid too.
     
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