Air bag suspension replaced: Check Your Tandems
Hazard Triangle Placement: Check your tandems
What is wrong with this picture? answer: This disabled truck driver has placed his emergency triangles in the wrong position. Click here The triangles are too close together to warn approaching vehicles. Below is a more fit distance of triangle placement: 10, 100, and 200 feet. Even this diagram is misleading, or incomplete. Many…
Check Your Tandems: Why can’t I slide my tandems here?
Why do so many shipping and receiving yards care if you slide your tandem wheels? When driving a big truck with trailer into a shipping/receiving yard, in my trucking tenure I estimated that about a third of them required you to slide your trailer’s tandem wheels all the way to the doors. This was usually…
Cebu City: Siomai and Friends Fries [chp 6]
impressions of an American in the Philippines My wife and I took an Inter-City van from Toledo to Cebu City. We walked to a waterside terminal. Several vans were parked, with locals sitting inside, waiting for departure. A woman stepped in my path, trying to sell me bottled water and sugar water. I bought two waters…
Check your tandems | Trucker Logs: Slip seat
Part memoir, part tall tale, part instructional manual: Chris DeBrie’s “Check Your Tandems” is from the perspective of a truck driver as he moves from newbie “greenhorn” to seasoned professional. What is “slip seat trucking”? It is for the tractor trailer driver who does not own a truck. This variety of driver is known as a…