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Thought you might be interested in this heavy trip across the border into Canada for Kylfitzy in the States.
We made it most of the way across SK today. They detoured us around most of the major towns on gravel (snowy) grid roads. All but one was basically straight, flat, and boring. The last one about cost me a set of shorts.
642 was a different story. There were a couple of sweeping turns with high banking that I was able to ride the high side with no problem. Keep in mind this load is 17’ tall with half the weight in the top two feet. Banked turns make me pucker. After the sweepers the road banked way down to a skinny bridge and a left curve then “straight” up. About time I’m to the bottom and committed my pilot car says “that’s a funny place to park a trailer”. Off to the right and about 100’ off the road was a pressure vessel on a platform trailer.
Best I can tell they spun out going up the hill and slid back down, or they came off to fast and couldn’t make the turn. I’m not sure which would ride would suck more. They lucky kept it upright but the hitch from one of the trucks was mangled up in the ditch.
I had no idea how steep that hill was and kept dropping gears (well my auto did) and topped the hill at 9mph and never spun once. I’m glad I have 46k on my drives. Started the trip at 13/44 but SK would only give us 12,200 on the steers so I had to slide my 5th wheel back. We need some wider front tires on this truck.
Might chain up on the next trip depending on how the road conditions are. I’d sure ####ing hate to slide down that hill backwards!
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I’m not understanding that, the platform is on a pintle. 
That’s interesting. A pintle is a bolt or pin used to secure something in place that turns round it. For example on a boat it’s the bolt round which the rudder turns. In transport it’s the pin in the tow hitch on the front of a lorry. In Nottingham it was called a pinkle and was a children’s word for p enis when I was growing up. This is probably because it comes from an old word for a pig’s p enis (I read that somewhere a million years ago). Hope that helps!
@les_sylphides Interesting mate, but doesn’t really help in why the turntable needed to be moved. 
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I know why it needed to be moved, in order to take some weight off the steers, but as to how it works I can only surmise.
Those ballast weights are on a steel pallet which has a striker plate underneath with a kingpin. The reason it appears to be so close to the chassis is because it does not need to be moved, indeed must not move. It may be also that there is a connection to the chassis once in the correct fore and aft position, to make sure it doesn’t.
Possibly 5th wheel is on hydraulic slider so the fore and aft can be adjusted?
Or a mechanical slider, as I have seen here. I would have thought the combination would have been set to comply in all jurisdictions, when loading.
I missed where he brought it from but remember in the USA and then Canada, the rules change from State to State and Province.
This is the same bloke, Kylefitzy, I featured a few days ago. With another heavy load to the same destination in Canada, he couldn’t make the hill and some kind of army truck pulled him up the grade. I’ll print what he said after the picture.
Anyway I got towed up a hill today by a bed truck. They were working a wrecked platform trailer at the bottom of the hill and they were towing everyone up after a b-train spun out and almost slid down backwards yesterday. The Canadians are too good to us!
Then one of the others made a comment:
that truck is a beast ! I bet if that operator found the right gear, he could yank the empire state building off the ground… lol
It is obviously a Kenworth and I reckon probably an 8x8, especially as he towed him up the hill at 10 mph without a load on the platform whereas Kylfitzy said the last time when he made it on his own he could only make 9 mph with a run at it.
Kenworth C510 8x8, I reckon.
Our friend Kylefritzy again, just in case anyone feels that it is a bit chilly in Europe. 
Got sent up to Kansas to move @supersnackbar favorite 60’ trailer. Got to the shipper at 0730 and it was -2 outside. The door was frozen to the ground and they tried to open it. So around 4pm once it was finally fixed I backed the trailer inside to be loaded tomorrow morning. Sounds like a detention day to me!
sounds like I’ll be meeting another driver and taking an 80’ steerable trailer to the left coast for some warm weather therapy. Or maybe I will just bring the cold weather with me.
Bear in mind that the -2 he talks about is F, that is in fact 34 degrees below freezing. A whole day wasted just getting a frozen warehouse door open. And later he said that that 80 foot steerable trailer is not self steering it requires a man at the back operating the controls, and he will be on his own. 
Can you imagine running backwards and forwards several times if you get to a corner. 
Also the detention day he mentions is I think some lower form of pay bearing in mind that he is paid by the mile, not the hour, as many are over there.