Posted by fixerupper on November 03, 2009 at 20:38:41 from (207.177.13.178):
The previous post about the pre-trip leads to a story about what happened to me this afternoon. I was hauling grain to town when an air bag blew out on the truck I was driving. Happened turning into the elevator so I unloaded and then bumped and banged my way back to the shop with it. At the shop there was another truck/ trailer sitting there empty and the grain cart was waiting for me so I hopped in the other truck and away I went without checking anything out. What I didn't see was the trailer was sitting on the saddle with the kingpin on top of the jaws instead of sitting down on the saddle with the jaws around the pin. Whoever hooked it up wasn't paying attention to whether it locked up or not and I was in too big of a hurry to to a pre-trip.
When I was shifting gears it felt like there was a lot of slop in the saddle jaws but this is an old spare truck that I haven't driven for a year so I just thought the jaws were worn. I went to the field, the grain cart filled me up, I hauled a load 20 miles to town and went back to the field and re-loaded. That's when another employee happened to shine the pickup lights on the truck I was driving and saw the air gap between the trailer and the saddle. Whooee! Now what do we do. The trailer's full so I slowly pulled it up on the gravel road, we dollied it down, with the dollies sinking into the road, and got the trailer down on the saddle like it should be. This must have been my lucky day. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. Jim
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