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Red & Yellow knobs pull out for a reason...

That will entail a lot of paperwork......

One would expect that happen to a Swift driver, not a TMC driver.....:hellno:

I like the way you slipped the last in there.........

I only pull the red one when dropping my trailer...If the tractor breaks are set...yellow knob pulled...you should''nt go anyhere when being loaded or emptied ,and if you do it's the fault of who is loading or unloading you because if they can push the tk/trlr with all 3 tractor axles set they're going to move you with the trailer breaks set ...

I've been pushed by loaders b4 getting hay loaded in a dry van first shove I thought it was immagination 2nd I realized I was sliding ,so i set trlr breaks...And it made no differece...I had amost a full load of hay when that front end loader was packing the last few bails ,so he was pushing about 70k lbs ...I've had guys push me from dock with a regular lift getting loaded with loose dirt under me with the first pallet on b/c I was on loose sand and no weight in the trailer yet for grip,And the loader thought he was at Talladega ...

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Originally Posted by BigDiesel (Post 424146)

That will entail a lot of paperwork......

One would expect that happen to a Swift driver, not a TMC driver.....:hellno:

Maybe his trainer was in the bunk at the time.:whistle:

I'm thinking neither knobs got pulled ...or that dock was lower than trailer and the putz driving the tractor off tried to climb the lip with no ramp and shoved the trk/trlr away from dock in the process.

I would have been interesting to watch them get the tractor off of the trailer. Or were they trying to load it? :roll3:

I the one pic where it shows tire tracks, and I think it's supposed to illustrate a tire rolled ,but a tire with weight on it will ofter still roll through the set breaks when shoved with a sufficent force ,and those tire marks almost look like it was pushed with the breaks set ?

If the brakes were set, where is the dirt that's susposed to be piled infront of the tires?

The trailer is lower than the dock, since it's a step deck. The MFWD was not engaged in the tractor. Since the trailer was lower than the dock, the front tires on the tractor would have to "climb" the dock. Since the MFWD was not engaged, the rear tires pushed on the trailer, while not pushing the front tires upward. It inturn rolled the trailer away from the dock. Note the perfect tire indetation made into the uneven gravel surface as the tire rolled over it.

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Originally Posted by jorlee (Post 424160)

If there is heavy wt on the tires they will have sufficient...GRIP...to hold past the breaks when pushed hard ,and will roll ,and this pic looks like a set of tires were rolled with the breaks on because the tire marks look like they were rolled under heavy resistance ,and no there would'nt be a huge pile of sand if rolled like this ...Really would'nt be a pile if they skidded either...I think the dock workers F-D...UP...unloading the tractor .