This isn't for ever body. Some of us should know when to quite

That Landstar is doing it wrong

 

Took me a few times to properly Hook when learning the "Proper Technique" with Single Wide Wheels, since I was "lining Up" as with Tandem Wheels NORMAL SETUP.
Had to Get Out & LOOK to equal No Dropped Trailer (with Legs down)!!

NEVER dropped any trailer on any Road!!

 

I didn't hook to one in a cat 1 hurricane. I hit the red valve and the trailer almost rolled down hill into a cannel. I stopped on the edge of my frame rails. Takes a while to crank up 44k in a can.

 

When I first started driving I had a 45K load and my 5th wheel was not working correctly. It needed to be rebuilt and I did not know any better I guess. Did a tug pull and all was good, Until it wasn't. Lucky it fell off onto the frame and never went all the way to the ground. It took for ever to get that #### trailer all the way jacked up on slow row. Never again will that happen, I do a pull test and look before and after hooking up.

 

Happened to me when I was drop/hook 10-12 trailers a day. I was just being a bone head

 

I've dropped one trailer and my most experienced driver (both of us over 30 yrs.) has dropped one. Both were in -20F temps. Mine was a flat that I actually hooked into, pulled it out of a twisty farm road, made two 90 deg turns on the main road, pulled into my parking lot, did a U turn and it fell off when I pulled back onto the highway. I yanked out both airlines, so I had to cage the brakes to get it back into the parking lot once I cranked it up. My driver who dropped one made a complete U turn at the shipper and it dropped as he geared up through their parking lot. It was fully loaded with 40K lbs of beer, so it ripped the landing gear right out of the bottom of the aluminum frame/floor and totaled the trailer. I didn't fire him as he has an otherwise perfect record AND not a single can of beer was damaged. We transloaded into another trailer and got the load delivered on time and unfrozen. Both of us had visually checked the locking mechanism on the plate, but obviously they hadn't latched with the frozen grease in there. We now do much more aggressive tug tests, and brake tests.

 

I saw this the other day. Poor dude. I’ve been in this industry over a decade and spent 2 years as a spotter moving well over 250 trailers a week with a day cab and never had this happen to me.

I do remember few years ago a daycab with milk in a reefer pulled out of the dairy plant and the trailer slid right off the 5th wheel and rolled into the ditch. There was a hazmat crew there for like 2 days picking it all up. I didn’t know milk was dangerous to the environment.

 

That would have been on cdl life for sure.

 

Never dropped one all the way, but just to the end of the truck frame, during my first year. I’ve checked my hook ever since, and have found two where even though it sounded as if the hook was good, the jaws were only half closed. Checking saved my generous bacon twice.

 

I wood guess because of the Reefer FUEL "if leaking or leaked", and maybe polluted Air "leaks" from Tires from 12 Gauge Over/Under Inflation. Some Milk can be hazardous to health when unrefrigerated for some specified timeline as verified through the Milkmen or Milkwomen service agreements.
Maybe Super Charged Electrical Gremlins escaping faulting wire insulations resulting in free energy tech checks, but such requires an alternating service fee.