MaceFremonti
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All of our new 274... tractors are for these. They are "fake" twin screws and have a single screw with a tag axle. We call them training wheels...lol.
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Feeder Drivers, Beware of 53' Containers
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cachsux
Wah
The vast majority of all the pics on here are of UPSU 600's. Their chassis' are every bit as poorly maintained as the others.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
wow that is bad
outta hours
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Oh crap....The feeling you get when one of these pops up on the IVIS for your outbound leg. Always hoping for a nice triple Z instead.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
It's not that big of a deal. In your own hand, big kahunas feel the same as small kahunas. Either one, you get used to the feeling. Unless they're not your kahunas. If that's the case, you're asking the wrong question on the wrong forum.
It's a whole different set of circumstances. In feeders, slow and steady wins our race. In PC, management cares far less about safety, because the consequences are far less serious. Safety, in feeders, is completely up to the driver. You'll find their "talks" about performance can easily be broken with a simple question or two by you towards their "logic".
Remember how freaky you felt driving a package car felt the first time you drove it? Feeders is the same thing. If you can respect the job, the equipment and the situations, it really isn't much different from any other job. The equipment is different, the situations are different, but everything is adaptable.
Snow in feeders looks the same as snow in a sedan. One more time: slow and steady ALWAYS wins the race.
MaceFremonti
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I think these all were recently sent to CACH and retired....
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pickup
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I have had this situation before, the tandems of the trailer were all the way back to the rear, shifting all the weight to front, causing the mud flaps to rub and the trailer doors wouldn't close because all that leverage caused the chassis and the container to bend slightly. I moved the tandems and most of the problem was solved, doors closed, mud flaps weren't rubbing. Probably was still overweight.
MoarTape
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The fstz chassis pups or the fstz long boxes? See the pups everyday. Haven't seen the long boxes in a month or so though.
MaceFremonti
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Long boxes
The welds would break from all the pounding they take. There has to be a little give, the locks for the front pins get bent just from them putting the container on. (The guy in the machine basically does it by feel.) Sometimes they miss and put the container resting on the pins.
Look at the pins on the dolly lifters on the shifters. Some have been rewelded a bunch of times, and they don't get half the stress the container pins take.
