{"id":18949,"date":"2025-02-24T01:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/dropped-a-trailer-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T01:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:04:03","slug":"dropped-a-trailer-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/dropped-a-trailer-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropped a trailer | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"201\">\n<aside>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<p>Sounds like another &#8220;high hooker&#8221; to me. Did you check the 5th wheel before moving? 5th wheels rarely, if ever fail, and yes, you could be on the hook with this one. I probably wouldn&#8217;t have said anything, but like you say, cameras are everywhere. Have to wait and see, and make sure you check that 5th wheel. Typically, a high hook, where the pin rides over the jaws, won&#8217;t come loose until you turn. Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p> I checked gap and release lever, I only got half way in to check the kingpin. I used to be super anal with checking however got laxed. I learned my lesson, that&#8217;s for sure. I&#8217;m thinking of resigning before it goes to corporate review. Been here for 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>When I worked for my previous company several guys dropped them at the DC, but local management wouldn&#8217;t report them, of course when a couple guys had it happen just outside the gate it was auto termination.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/dropped-a-trailer.2521182\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like another &#8220;high hooker&#8221; to me. Did you check the 5th wheel before moving? 5th wheels rarely, if ever fail, and yes, you could be on the hook with this one. I probably wouldn&#8217;t have said anything, but like you say, cameras are everywhere. Have to wait and see, and make sure you check&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}