Big Mistake To Karma Bite!
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So I've been with my trainer for 2 weeks now. Good guy, very knowledgeable, most of the time not hard to live with. Today however he was nit picking the hell out of everything I was doing. Right down to the order of which I connected the trailer. As someone you may remember I was team driving for another company before switching companies around new years. The first company taught me to check the connection between the 5th wheel and king pin before doing any other connecting type stuff. This guy wants me to connect the air and electric line, then check the king pin. Neither are wrong.... just 2 ways to do the same thing.
So I was extremely flustered today... and forgot to hit the tandem release arm after sliding the wheels.... well driving down the road for a few miles and I thought we were in a wreck. ... the tandems hit the stop bar so hard. The trainer was sitting on the bottom bunk and flew onto the floor.
Bottom line, I need to be more careful... while nothing major happened today... that's not to say next time I'll be a lucky. All that said, I'm still laughing at the image of my trainer flopping around on the floor like a fish.
I pointed out that if he was nicer tomorrow is let him stay in bed :) hopefully revenge isn't as funny. ....
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".