Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

My guess would be, none. Without a spring on that side it would throw off your axle weights because there isn't any pressure on that position, and pulling on a DOT scale, at least one would notice. And with the front axle doing most of the work carrying the load, there would be tire issues...plus I look at my trailers when I pick them up and every morning before I take off (you wouldn't believe how often a wheel seal leak doesn't show when the seal is hot, but in the morning when it cool, there will be a nice streak of oil down the back of the tire.) Plus, the equalizer bogey is all jacked up to the front...not a hard thing to miss if you even glance at it. Left KC this a.m. and all was normal, somewhere between there and the rest area one of the MO ski jumps finished off a weak or cracked spring. Plus, there isn't damage to the tire. With that little clearance, rubbing on the back side of the frame rail (like going against a knife edge) it wouldn't take much to cut the tread...and, the frame rail isn't that polished and bright.

 

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I sincerely believe the claims department is setting this load up for an epic fail. The plan is, the towing company is picking up an empty trailer from a Mack/Volvo dealer east of Edwardsville, IL (what a reefer trailer is doing at a truck dealer I haven't a clue). They're bringing it to me in Foristell, MO where I swap my loaded trailer for the empty. Then, according to the Risk Claims department, they are going to chain up the axle on the trailer with the broken spring, which makes no sense to me because it is already up to where the tires are almost dragging the crossmember...but if they remove those tires and run on one axle on that side, that is putting 1/2 of the 33,200 lb load on a single set of duals on that side of the trailer, which exceeds the weight limit of a set of duals by over 4000 lbs. Then, they are supposed to drag that compromised trailer all the way to the other side of St. Louis, to a customer in Dupo, IL to reload it onto the empty I will be pulling. That's a lot of weight going a long way...I can only see this ending in a bad way. Unless they have some sort of way to raise the axle with the broken spring up and blocking it in to give the tires clearance so they keep the tandems on...but then it rides on something solid instead of springs...I really don't see this working any other way but putting a new set of springs under it here at the T/A...

 

Somehow. The empty trailer's location and the customer who will be transferring the freight are on the same side of St. Louis, maybe 20 miles away from each other. They're bringing me an empty 60 miles, then I'm driving it 60 miles to the transfer customer. Seriously, by the time we do all this dicking around and transloading the freight, I won't have the hours to make it to the delivery tomorrow, so it'll deliver Thursday...if they fixed it here, I would take off as soon as they had me fixed and deliver it 1st thing Friday. They're doing all this extra b.s. to save less than 24 hours on a load (that was loaded 7 hours late)