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RandyA

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This truck was blocking an exit for a NC rest stop today.  I snapped the pics as I swung around him to get out.  I could not tell if the problem was a shifted load, broken trailer pin or hitch failure.  Maybe someone can tell?

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Kinda looks like a sheared king pin or pin mount failure.     A friend had his flat loose the king pin plate, it is more common than you might think.

Steve

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Well,

 

At least with flat beds it is pretty common.    They don't all fail to destruction but a lot of trailers have the plate replaced.

 

Steve

2005 Peterbilt 387-112 Baby Cat 9 speed U-shift

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Dirt and stuff get on top of the 5th wheel plate and it rusts from the top down. It happens on grain trailers too. You have to get up in the slopes and wash it out a couple times a year.

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It appears the sliding hitch base is raised up away from the frame rail.  

Upon further inspection, the fifth wheel plate isn't near the middle of the sliding plate, and it isn't hooked to the trailer either.

 

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No matter what, the guy was in a lot of hurt.  Think about it....... he was leaving a parking spot in a rest area.  End slot so he had to make a sharp turn.  BEFORE he pulled into the rest stop he was most likely booking up I-95 North at 70 mph.  I hate to think of the mayhem he would have created if the trailer had come lose while traveling.

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Randy, Nancy and Oscar

"The Great White" - 2004 Volvo VNL670, D12, 10-speed, converted to single axle pulling a Keystone Cambridge 5th wheel, 40', 4 slides and about 19,000# with empty tanks.

ARS - WB4BZX, Electrical Engineer, Master Electrician, D.Ed., Professor Emeritus - Happily Retired!

 

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Where he's at, drop the landing gear, get re-aligned, reconnect, move on. Probably took longer to get the flares out, than to get squared away. Blocking traffic like that will only bring unfriendly eyes. 

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I had someone pull the arm an unlock my fifth wheel once.  I pulled out straight, trailer slide off fifth wheel.  By a stroke of good luck, I happened to be looking back in mirrors and saw it happening and stopped short keeping the trailer on the truck frame.  It was a bear cranking landing gear down and raising the trailer enough to get back under it.  Never again did I leave anyplace I stopped without checking for locked fifth wheel.  Even when towing our 35' fiver, I checked.

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That one is kinda hard with the trailer all twisted over. If you can get both legs on the ground, the air suspension is your friend. Dump the bags, wedge the truck as far back as possible, inflate, crank down, repeat.

I’ve had to pick a few up. Would get a few on mornings when it was -30/-35F out. The grease was stiff enough that it would fool the drivers when they did a tug test, but the hitch was not latched. The trailer would pull across the yard just fine, but when they made the turn onto the highway, the grease would break loose and the trailer would slide off. Thankfully we had a big old Cat that was capable of lifting a loaded trailer. But still not something you want to be doing in the middle of the state highway.

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