GameCockFan
Well-Known Member
This. Never checked. Never knew it. I've never been to the rail yard either. Occasionally pull a 28 ft on a chassis.
Feeder Drivers, Beware of 53' Containers
- Thread starter cachsux
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This. Never checked. Never knew it. I've never been to the rail yard either. Occasionally pull a 28 ft on a chassis.
cachsux
Wah
Fairly straight retainer meets pin handle at the front. Has a ziptie. Everything looks good,right?
A closer look above and here shows that the retainer mounting point is just a chunk of threaded rod that has been welded ,poorly, to a pin guide sleeve that's in bad condition itself.
The other side stands out a little better. A piece of threaded rod welded to the pin guide sleeve. Better yet notice the nut that is a completely different size, so large it just spins on the rod. The master trailer mechanic kept it from falling off by placing a weld blob on the rod.
Here's a better view. Who wants to hedge their safety against this kind of maintenance.Don't look just at the retainers. Look at what the chassis looks like around it. Redtag!
I send him one almost every night. Last night it was an OWZ, tho.
cachsux
Wah
It doesn't take a lot to begin to be able to spot them at a glance. Been avg about 5-6 redtags a day,
cachsux
Wah
Are they responsible to pretrip just like any other driver? Yes. Do they? If they're like the ones who shuttle trailers in crosstown work here, HELL NO.
cachsux
Wah
We'll just call this "What were they thinking?"
Driver secured the front pin retainer with a ziptie. Didn't look close enough to see retainer is cracked and hanging by a thread. Cracks rusty too so that means it's been circulating in the system for a while.
Here is a front retainer so bent out of shape that the pin handle is pulled so far back to meet it that the pin is only 1/2" at best in the container.
A shot from underneath.
A shot from above also showing the container is not up against the front of the chassis.
An average 53' container is easily in the 50-60 thousand pound range. Do you really want it retained like this?
Driver secured the front pin retainer with a ziptie. Didn't look close enough to see retainer is cracked and hanging by a thread. Cracks rusty too so that means it's been circulating in the system for a while. Here is a front retainer so bent out of shape that the pin handle is pulled so far back to meet it that the pin is only 1/2" at best in the container. A shot from underneath. A shot from above also showing the container is not up against the front of the chassis.An average 53' container is easily in the 50-60 thousand pound range. Do you really want it retained like this?
Tonight's load. BOTH front pins were like this. Not only all the way out, but tiewrapped that way. This means the trailer already came over the road like this.
P.S. we still haven't heard of the problems Cach had with the trailers falling off. This is huge, something bad will happen....
P.S. we still haven't heard of the problems Cach had with the trailers falling off. This is huge, something bad will happen....
TxRoadDawg
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Dam, scary thing to think about is how many trailers are like this on road everyday not in our system........
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
It amazes me how few drivers do a proper pre and post trip inspection. I irritate the mechanics I deal with, if for no other reason than they see me all of the time. When they sigh when I come back to the shop, I just tell them, "Don't blame me, blame all of the other drivers who don't do what I do." At least twice a week I go to the shop to change safety pins for the dolly because I will not zip tie a used-up pin. And the list goes on. One of my pet peeves is drivers who just ignore tires low on air. This happens all of the time. Most likely, it's because they get a little pressure about on-property times and won't man up and say screw on-property if it means they have to rush a pre or post trip. Nothing worse than a lazy driver passing his problem on to the next driver.
Having said all of that, the 6XXXXX rail boxes I see are in good shape. We're only 500 miles down the road from you cahsux. But as many rush-rush drivers that we have, it probably is only a matter of time before someone screws the pooch with one of these junkers.
lazydriver
Well-Known Member
Get with your supervisor to train you on what to look for about these chassis. Hopefully they will be knowledgeable about it. I have refused last year several times pulling these trailers because of chassis problems. I called the dispatched told them the problem and asked for a different trailer. Sometimes the piggy packers get lazy and don't release all the pins on the chassis and when the pull the box off they end up bending the pins. Afterwards they become difficult to engage completely. The shop steward said to me to get your sup to train you properly. I initialed the letter and wrote on it that I had not been trained on how to secure these chassis.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Old thread,,I know !!
but I had one last nite going to rail with no front zip ties,and needed a fork truck to close the doors which a 20 LB sledge couldn't do ....Upper rods bent....then on top of that it was 100 % full ,,felt like trailer was driving me !
These things got to be overweight on a single screw tractor !! My tractor mud flaps were scraping the ground !!
I HATE THESE DAM THINGS !!!!
but I had one last nite going to rail with no front zip ties,and needed a fork truck to close the doors which a 20 LB sledge couldn't do ....Upper rods bent....then on top of that it was 100 % full ,,felt like trailer was driving me !
These things got to be overweight on a single screw tractor !! My tractor mud flaps were scraping the ground !!
I HATE THESE DAM THINGS !!!!
MaceFremonti
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On my new run I have the pleasure of doing strictly railyard runs two days out of the week. Literally everyone of these that I pull has an issue - no lights, no registration, broken pins, no pins, container sitting ON front pins.....the list is endless.
Akin to pulling doubles we should get "container pay"!
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Akin to pulling doubles we should get "container pay"!
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Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
The UPS 600 series seem like they have the better chassis,,but the CSXU and the UMXU trailers are just an accident waiting to happen, I really thing that they should only be pulled with a twin screw, I agree with the extra pay on these thing,,lol
