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Originally Posted by yougotto
the reason i bring this up is that i've worked with a lot of truck drivers, and watched drivers of 30 years experience take 45 minutes to hook their truck up on what seemed level ground, it was even paved. the air dump weren't enough to level the truck and he had to use ply wood, which took extremely long. it seems if you could manipulate the fifth wheel more you could save more time on uneven surfaces
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Don't know what their problem was. If the ground was relatively level, a newbie should be able to "hit the pin" in one or two tries.
Interesting thought process, though. And like others, I applaud your trying to think outside the box. However, it seems that the parts needed for your solution would be scrunched into a small space, and possibly not tough enough for the job.
How about this? Not having given much thought to this.... you currently have a function that raises or lowers your "drive" suspension. How hard would it be to make that operation an "independant" one for each END of the axle? i.e. would it be easier to modify the drive suspensions to be able to lower just ONE side instead of the whole thing at once? Drop just ONE side of the suspension at a time, and to "intermittent" levels instead of just UP or DOWN. This would allow you to level the fifth wheel plate, (to that of the trailer platform,) without all the additional parts and problems of fifth wheel "levelers."
Besides, I don't know about "plywood" but I carry 2X4's and 4X8's to "step up" my drives when needed to reach a "high" trailer. If I used them on just ONE side of the drives, I've accomplished the same thing.
If you want to make my life easier, invent a small motor that raises and lowers the landing gear for me! :lol:
Good luck. And if you get rich.... remember how nice I was to ya!! :lol:
