Where can you drop a trailer and leave it?

And if you do drop your trailer to scamper about, always use a king pin lock for some added insurance against the trailer being stolen.

Come to think of it... I should have done that with the last (only) trailer that was swiped from me.
Delivering a load at night at a Target store in SLC and I'm low on hours. They tell me to drop it in the dock and pull away, park over on the side. In the morning the paperwork will be in the trailer.
When I got up the trailer, and paperwork, were gone.

It turned out to be another Swift driver looking for an empty. Took it from the dock, when he/she could see that it was mine. Since it was assigned to me the DM must have done some fancy footwork to get it reassigned.
He got burned in the end though. Had to go through the Swift terminal, maybe for fuel or something, and they inspect every trailer as it comes in. The trailer had a cracked brake lining and was red flagged. I found it there when I went in to find a new empty.
Some people are such jerks.

But the king pin lock would have prevented it from happening in the first place.

 

#### good idea

 

Certain support of specific wood cut to minimum thick, width and length plus numbers of them under the gear will take care of that.

I had a trailer do that, punch through black top once. Fortuntaely I was monitoring the drop and got back under it before one leg has managed to complete it's softspot square hole.

What I should have done is swing by lowes and got a nice bag of black to pound that into the hole. Convert all that time wasting irrevelant yelling and spittle into a groveling thank you.

Trailer stays with you unless you gain permission to drop in a designated spot within a friendly truckstop with gatekeeper security who has the same list of dropped trailers as well. It's relatively rare.

 

The word I think you wanted to use was extenuating but I understood what you were saying. Please don't feel picked on here. It's just almost everyday someone makes a comment like there is a one size fits all approach and solution to problems all of us Truckers have encountered or will. Some walmarts can't allow CMVs because of local laws. One such Walmart unless something has changed is the one near Washington Courthouse Ohio. Some Walmarts can't allow it because they have erected height barriers. See my point?

 

All trailers (at least where I work) have GPS inside.

I have a delivery to Miami next week. I wish I could drop trailer somewhere and bobtail to South Beach. Lol

 

I have followed that discussion and I think he ended up leasing a truck while the battle raged with the insurance company.

 

Do not drop your trailer at a Walmart unless you specifically speak with a store manager.

We will tow it if left unattended.

If you get permission make sure to drop it on concrete, out of the way so you do not screw up the privilege for everybody else.

 

The ONLY time I've dropped loaded trailers mid trip somwhere other than a customer or terminal is if I was at a truckstop getting a tractor repair and they required it to work on the truck.

 

Well it depends on a couple of things do you have permission by your company to leave a trailer unattended? If your dropping it at a truck fuel stop you'll also need permission by the management there. Best place obviously if your hauling for a mega is at one of their depots. Although you'd still need permission, the other option is why not just leave you truck and trailer and go hire a taxi or walk if its not to far, catch a bus or other form of public transport.