yes, Last month the air line on my rear trailer pop off in the middle of rush hour doing about 68 mph. All I saw was smoke in my mirrors and cars locking them up as well. Managed to drag my set a long way to the shoulder luckily without hitting anybody only to to find my trailer tires exposing the steel belts....My advice, don't panic and change your underwear when you get home....Good luck and get some sleep.
yes, Last month the air line on my rear trailer pop off in the middle of rush hour doing about 68 mph. All I saw was smoke in my mirrors and cars locking them up as well. Managed to drag my set a long way to the shoulder luckily without hitting anybody only to to find my trailer tires exposing the steel belts....My advice, don't panic and change your underwear when you get home....Good luck and get some sleep.
68? Whats the truck speed limit in Fl?
I am only using this as an example of what can happen when your airlines are not completely secure. When you hook up your airlines, the fit is usually pretty secure, but SOMETIMES , the fit is loose and if so, the probability of them coming off is greater . What you can do is take a hammer and lightly bang the groove (lack of better word) on the trailer glad hand and move it slightly so that the gladhand is snugly in place and hence your airline will stay coupled. If you do it right, the airline will come off when you take it off and you did a favor for anyone else driving that trailer in the future. Also, when you cut a sharp turn in the yard after hooking up.. When you straighten out, take a look at your glad hands of airlines . Have they moved at all? If they did, ,its hammer time. Two Slight tap is all that is needed sometimes. My method, not ups's , but never had a glad hand come off during a trip. But that is for the future, if you are training to take a road test, let us know, because you can't driver a feeder if you can't pass the road test (which can be arbitrary depending on who in the dmv is grading you)
I'm off to train next week any advice or good stories about your experience in feeders...
Don't worry...you will suck shifting/downshifting and backing. We all did our first time, even driving manuel and clutch vehicles all my life....it's all about shifting in the RPM sweetspot barely depressing the clutch, it will get better....
68? Whats the truck speed limit in Fl?
Let us know if they have you learn the definition of a "Defensive Driver". I seem to remember it starting out like, "A defensive driver does not allow the lack of experience...." I went to feeder school back in 1974 and we had to learn that along with the 5 Seeing Habits.