White Line
Well-Known Member
This is a issue that continues on the triple lanes and has not been addressed, two weeks ago a line driver from our domicile was pulled over on suspicion that he was drunk, a motorist called NHP to inform them that one of our triples drivers sets were whipping wildly all over the road and suspected that the driver was drunk, as it turned out he wasn't, but he did have two of these series converter gears in his set, all the trailers were hooked in the right order according to weight, with the heaviest on the front and the lightest on the rear, I also have had the same issue with these con gears and although the issue has been brought up, and supposedly safety is aware of the problem, we continue to have to use these gears for triples trailers configurations, while it is possible to find older series gears in the bull pin at our yard, that isn't always the case, as the reputation of these newer gears is well known by most the drivers now and most will use the older gears leaving the newer gears there for later shift drivers, I will however note the new gears perform flawless when in a doubles configuration, but when you spend at least 90% of the year in triples configuration on these runs (when weather is a factor we down grade to doubles) it makes the use of these series con gears almost impossible.