the maoster:
Never heard of that happening ever! I always leave the legs half an inch or so off the floor, pull clear of the pin a few inches and then lower the unit air suspension…
I bet those who come along with wagons that have fifth wheels higher than your unit must love you when they have to stand there winding up the legs in low gear so they can get under it.
switchlogic:
Personally I lift suspension and put them all way down. But then I started out driving a truck without any run up ramps
Hope you don’t drive a Merc and whoever is picking it up is driving a DAF because if you do that they can’t hook up to it without having to wind the legs down as it’ll be too high. That’s assuming they can do so assuming the handle isn’t stowed in a position where with all the weight on the legs they can’t actually pull it out to use it.
So along with daft lad who leaves the legs half an inch off the floor it’s no wonder there’s so many of us who end up having to needlessly struggle and so many trailer legs are knackered.
You’d think that dropping a trailer was a simple thing to do but it seems that some here who profess the most to be professionals clearly don’t have a clue. So once again it’s down to an agency driver to teach the permanent monkeys how to do the job properly. Wind the legs all the way down to the ground, pull forward slightly, lower the air suspension fully, pull out slowly. That way you’re not bending the legs when they have the weight of the trailer they support suddenly dumped on them and they’re not getting bent when whoever comes along picks it up because they’re not able to lift the trailer up high enough to lift them off the ground when hooking up.
I see the Ego has landed
Conor:
the maoster:
Never heard of that happening ever! I always leave the legs half an inch or so off the floor, pull clear of the pin a few inches and then lower the unit air suspension…I bet those who come along with wagons that have fifth wheels higher than your unit must love you when they have to stand there winding up the legs in low gear so they can get under it.
Oh my God, just when I think that your stupidity has reached a peak you come out with another gem like this ^^^ . I know you tell all about your epic adventures of traversing the infamous A66 badlands, but rubbish such as that makes me actually doubt that you do drive a lorry.
Conor:
the maoster:
Never heard of that happening ever! I always leave the legs half an inch or so off the floor, pull clear of the pin a few inches and then lower the unit air suspension…I bet those who come along with wagons that have fifth wheels higher than your unit must love you when they have to stand there winding up the legs in low gear so they can get under it.
Oh, dear. Here’s a little pointer - Next time you’ve carefully arranged your Lidl carrier bag contents on the bunk, have a little look at that remote control widget alongside the driver’s seat. You’ll notice that it has controls to both raise and lower the suspension. Press those buttons while observing the rear of the unit. You’ll find that the thing moves several inches both up and down. Then stop and think for a moment just how many of those inches of travel are needed to adjust for a trailer dropped 1/2 an inch or an inch higher or lower than normal running height…
thehairyarsedtrucker:
Could I point out that over the past few years a small minority of drivers are in the habit of raising the suspension to the top before dropping the trailer, Ive had to get the shuntter to pull the trailer out so I could wind the legs down to hook up. SO PLEASE STOP RAISING SUSPENSION BEFORE DROPPING TRAILERS its not big and its not clever.
I drove for a German company who had a standard procedure, lower the trailer suspension and lift the unit, wind down the legs fully, chock the wheels and pull away, it didn’t make sense to me but they paid my salary, as long as everyone does it the same way, it works.
Wheel Nut:
I drove for a German company who had a standard procedure, lower the trailer suspension and lift the unit, wind down the legs fully, chock the wheels and pull away, it didn’t make sense to me but they paid my salary, as long as everyone does it the same way, it works.
I can see the logic in lowering the trailer suspension before lowering the legs and uncoupling (avoids the situation where the trailer sits down at the rear - with a corresponding lifting at the kingpin - if air leaks lose pressure while parked). But I don’t see any logic in dropping it with the unit suspension first.
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