You can plan your route down to the Tee and still face an issue like this. Truckers don't always know what the roads look like ahead of them especially if they've never been there. Roads can have detours or something and you may have to alter your route at the last minute. An atlas can't serve you on city streets and even a Rand McNally GPS will send you on some roads that trucks aren't supposed to be on. It's just a computer and it does make mistakes! Some of these comments are pure ignorance!
+thirstyy thristyy How does someone move in on a street like this then? Because that truck says it's a moving truck, or at least it did at one time. And I know that typically the no truck signs don't apply to trucks delivering or picking up from a location on that street/in that neighbourhood.
The driver was most likely in this city he was not familiar with. I cut the guy some slack. When you drive OTR; you end up in unfamiliar places. So easy to throw criticisms and call the driver "stupid" from your computer. Until your sorry butt has been in that situation and your trying to get a tractor-trailer through unfamiliar streets reading directions given to you by a 19 year old who drives a ford focus then STFU.
you so right My first Yr Solo OTR I had to drive through downtown Cincinnati streets just like that luckily didn't get stuck though nervous as hell the whole time made it though baby. Had to drive on long island to a Michael's store holy shit it was a nightmare but an adventure. People really don't know what its like to drive a truck but they love to tell others how to.
This happened to me once with my car hauler in san diego CA It feels like shit to be in this kind of trouble while lots of people are angry at you and try to make your day worse because they think you did it on purpose. Thank God I had the help of a very nice and humble american guy from georgia who was in town as a tourist,He did all he could to help me and he he even had a few verbal fights with a few ass holes to defend me and make them see that it was an accident. We couldn't get it out by ourselves even tho we tried for like 3 hrs. Finally the tow truck I had called since the first minute i was stuck got there and he winched me oit in 10 seconds.
I worked at a car dealership around Atlantic City for years. We had a steep driveway and the car hauler dudes would grind it bad at the hump. The ass end of the trailers would grind on the way out too. I would shoot the drivers a thumbs up and they'd be grinning from ear to ear.
This is a common problem for movers in San Fran , you will experience it at least once , once you learn your way around to the top on streets that don’t crown so sharply onto a Plateau you’ll be good to go
Good to see the keyboard Warrior showing some sympathy especially for mother Truckers put each other down and act like they were never new to trucking their lives
Being a household driver myself, I've been there. Our trailers are incredibly low to the ground so we can pack and stack furniture and boxes to the ceiling. We go in apartment complexes, downtown cities, neighborhoods, everywhere a truck shouldn't be. Everything is an obstacle. Even some railroad crossings can get us caught if not careful. Those boxes underneath house our ramps to walk in the doors or load cars. It happens. I just wanted to clarify what kind of truck this was for all the ignorant comments who have no idea what they are talking about. $500-$800 and he'll be free and on to the next job.
it's like they had a paino In the front or something, that load looks heavy just for a move,coming from a mover....& the company will pay for the fine,that's why every driver is insured so they won't pay dues like this,well that's up here in Boston Ma,who know how it goes around your area
This is why they make shuttle trucks. Also the agency is supposed to send out someone to survey the area to make sure it's ok to maneuver and park a truck and trailor. Bad planning IMO.
So I wonder how do household movers deliver in San Francisco since many streets are like this? Do people just not move to San Francisco or do they have to haul their furniture up the hills on dollies?
I also work for a moving company i was in the same situation in Wisconsin I poured a jug of laundry detergent between the black top and my belly box and was able to back out of it 😆 true story
I did a similar stunt with a moving van at a golf course only I was moving fast enough the trailer belly slid over the top of the little bridge I was going over. helped to there was maybe only a few tons of furniture for the golf clubs bar. Was the first and last time I hauled anything that low before. I agree though, we always seem to have these issues within sight of the delivery or pickup and no broker or dispatcher ever seem to think we need this crucial information.
Take the rod off the suspension leveling valve, lift it all the way up. Once the bags fully inflate, back up. If the trailer is air ride, do the same to it. I have had to do it once doing a residential delivery.
Stop when you feel yourself getting hung up. Put it in direct drive and back off a little. Anyone who operates a low trailer (with belly boxes) should know enough to pull out your decking beams and plywood (or blocking) and run your drives, then your rear tandems up on to them. Repeat as needed till you're on level ground. Since you called the wrecker you might as well drop the trailer (use blocks under the landing gear) pull your tractor out let the wrecker hook on to the trailer kingpin then follow him to the closest "flat spot with a coffee shop." Don't get hung up on railroad tracks. Leave the truck and call an UBER.
All the trucks I drove in Scandinavia could raise the airbags both on trailer and truck and it would clear. Myself got almost stuck in Brooklyn taking the wrong turn. But dont blame the driver. Its challenging to drive in the cities.
Well first of all that's almost considered as a low-Boy trailer hight to me because it's not the average Drybox night . That's a moving van which is lower than the average drybox and the tire's are small!
he's pulling a moving trailer, so how do some of you know if he's not a block away from his destination? This is just bad luck. He didn't put the angle of the hill there, or construct the trailer.
william mosco Doubt it's bad luck. Real truckers don't have much bad luck or they become dispatchers. Rookie error. He hit it hard enough to get hung up pretty good. A driver would have felt it out slowly and stopped as soon as it scraped bottom. Wait for a cop and get some help backing out. That's how it's done.
Disconnect the air suspension levelling rods and manually adjust the valves to inflate the bags to their maximum then drive over, or back off, the high spot. $500.00 winching fee saved. P.S. : Don't forget to reconnect the levelling rods!
I absolutely hate low-hanging trailers for this very reason. That said, the trucker should have known better. Even a standard trailer's undercarriage would have come close to the ground on that hill.
WHY do so many trucks have those low bellies? I have seen a few stuck like that, on in the entrance to a truck stop about 18" higher than the road on a fair gradient
Everyone makes mistakes I'm sure that your hands and feet don't have holes in them. Sometimes we have to go to some messed up areas or miss a turn and now gotta figure a way out. So as long as you have ""NEVER" made any mistakes then you can say that.
It's the companies fault. They shouldn't be sending low trailers to any part of downtown San Fransisco. The moving companies also own bobtail trucks for this very reason. Right tool for the right job.
when I see a no truck rote sign in California , 13'6 is pretty much good 90% of the time it's for noise ordinance. as a mclane driver, nothing really matters we have 48s. you can fit them anywhere
I suppose this is NYC. What neighborhood is this with that steep incline? Murray Hill? Which street? Below 14th of course but any precisions? Thanks from a former NYer. By the way, nice Art Deco window railings behind the stuck truck.
Why driver not lifted up truck and trailer? In the EU we just rise pneumatic spring to a level high enough to manoeuver over obstacles and inconsistencies on paved surfaces.
I'm just curious, as a truck driver myself (NOT a computer nerd etc etc) why didn't the driver put his air suspension up ??? Would have saved a lot of money on the towing.
Well, driver error. Set brakes, get half inch wrench. Get under truck and take air level arm off. Push up and hold it and the truck will jack up 6 inches. Drive over hill and rehook air valve level arm. 10 min max.
Shoooot nowadays there would have been pieces of trailer throughout the whole town or the driver would have been sitting there smoking the tires down to the wire. At least this guy stopped and didn't try to tear his stuff up
If you drive for a living, and your dispatch tells you "go downtown San Fran" then you go downtown San Fran! It is absolutely horrifying in a small car, let alone a big rig. My ex and her kids insisted we visit Fishermans Wharf while pulling the 26 foot camp trailer behind my F150 4 door. Key word..."ex".
Why would anyone (trailer manufacturer) add this to the driver's list of worries? Now in addition to the normal big truck in a city problems, he has to worry about "can I make it over this little rise in the road?"
Brittany farrier I appreciate your comments, these people don't know hell about trucking, although driver has to blame himself at end trucking is one of the worst paying job in the country as I did for 5 years, no wonder truck drivers are getting out of it.
wow just looking at that hill and your trailer would of told you that was not a good idea .......but hey live and learn .....glad to see he got pulled free
Since this is a drop deck van, couldn't the driver have raised the rear of the trailer to docking height and given himself some extra clearance to possibly drive out of this? Sure he'd be over 13'6" for a bit but as long as there was clearance above he'd be alright. Just asking, I'm not a driver so pardon my ignorance if I missed something.
Myself being the tow truck operater I would have unhooked trailer from tractor and used the wheel lift on the wrecker to lift trailer and back it off the hill or even pull forward up the hill...would not have dragged the trailer at all....either way he freed the truck. I would have just done it differently...
They should have a sign saying truck s are not allowed I mean but we all make mistakes so don't judge that driver I'm pretty sure if your not a truck driver you done made some mistakes in a car
At 6:49 I thought he was going to ground the rear end backing out! Surprised they winched the truck with pedestrians strolling by. With the load on the cable, if there's any problem which causes it to snap a passer-by could be badly injured, if not killed.
take the rod loose on your airbags and make sure the brakes are set over inflate the air bags just enough to pick the trailer up a half inch back up to get it off the hill and then drain the bags back down to original ride hight if it doesn't do it ,dothe same to the trailer to get you out of a bind the tools are already there to keep you from getting a raging tow bill ,same thing if u get stuck order a bridge and can't move completely drain the air out of the bags on the tractor and the trailer and usually you can back up to get out or drive all the way throgh to get out most of the time it works been using this method for 43 yrs of driving and idrag double drops and low boys gooseneck trls air bags are our freinds ,,always carry 2 6 inch long 4 by 4s and two 6inch 2by 4s in the side box ,if the trailer falls off the tractor get the frame rails under the trailer use the air to picking up about 2 to3 inches crank the landing gear down let the air out all the way put 2by 4 and the 4 by 4 on the frame rail fill with air crank landing gear down again drain air and repeat again until you can get the 5th wheel ears under the trailer pt the airs under the trailer put air to bags with brakes set pick it up again crank landing gear down then you can back under it and hook it up work smarter not harder you have everything you need to do the job just need the brain capacity to make it work without hurting your self
maybe if the driver had raise the suspension height on both the trailer and tractor ,"maybe" he had a chance to at least back out and save the tow fee, but I wasn't there and don't know if he tried that. I have helped a couple of drivers in similar situations, that didn't know you could do that,
You can plan your route down to the Tee and still face an issue like this. Truckers don't always know what the roads look like ahead of them especially if they've never been there. Roads can have detours or something and you may have to alter your route at the last minute. An atlas can't serve you on city streets and even a Rand McNally GPS will send you on some roads that trucks aren't supposed to be on. It's just a computer and it does make mistakes! Some of these comments are pure ignorance!
Damn. You drive trucks. Well go head with your fine self
Preach!
Tell'em sista
+thirstyy thristyy How does someone move in on a street like this then? Because that truck says it's a moving truck, or at least it did at one time. And I know that typically the no truck signs don't apply to trucks delivering or picking up from a location on that street/in that neighbourhood.
God bless you brittney.
The driver was most likely in this city he was not familiar with. I cut the guy some slack. When you drive OTR; you end up in unfamiliar places. So easy to throw criticisms and call the driver "stupid" from your computer. Until your sorry butt has been in that situation and your trying to get a tractor-trailer through unfamiliar streets reading directions given to you by a 19 year old who drives a ford focus then STFU.
100% agreed
Plus those household movers are in areas that big trucks don't go often.
exactly
You hit the nail on the head!!!!
you so right My first Yr Solo OTR I had to drive through downtown Cincinnati streets just like that luckily didn't get stuck though nervous as hell the whole time made it though baby. Had to drive on long island to a Michael's store holy shit it was a nightmare but an adventure. People really don't know what its like to drive a truck but they love to tell others how to.
This happened to me once with my car hauler in san diego CA
It feels like shit to be in this kind of trouble while lots of people are angry at you and try to make your day worse because they think you did it on purpose.
Thank God I had the help of a very nice and humble american guy from georgia who was in town as a tourist,He did all he could to help me and he he even had a few verbal fights with a few ass holes to defend me and make them see that it was an accident.
We couldn't get it out by ourselves even tho we tried for like 3 hrs.
Finally the tow truck I had called since the first minute i was stuck got there and he winched me oit in 10 seconds.
@@thunderbear0
Thank you
We just what we love doing
back in my car hauler days, you grabbed a couple more gears.....LOL
I worked at a car dealership around Atlantic City for years. We had a steep driveway and the car hauler dudes would grind it bad at the hump. The ass end of the trailers would grind on the way out too. I would shoot the drivers a thumbs up and they'd be grinning from ear to ear.
@@scdevon your lucky they didn't shove that thumb up your azs
I drive a car hauler. Been to sanfrisco. My trailer scraped on every dip. I had to keep the momentum or I would have been just like this guy.
Gotta give creds to all the tow truck drivers out there, have seen some incredible rescues, seems they are always able to do the job.
I saw one of those stuck in the entrance drive at a pilot station years ago. Poor guy just wanted some fuel and a Subway grinder and got screwed.
This is a common problem for movers in San Fran , you will experience it at least once , once you learn your way around to the top on streets that don’t crown so sharply onto a Plateau you’ll be good to go
Good to see the keyboard Warrior showing some sympathy especially for mother Truckers put each other down and act like they were never new to trucking their lives
Glad to see Walter White has found a new career path.
Lmao I think I'm the only one that caught on to that
I think the same thing when i see this guy HAHAHA!
I was gonna say the same thing before I read the comments lmao
yo mr white, how you gonna pull that truck out? need me to Gatorade you bitch?
Being a household driver myself, I've been there. Our trailers are incredibly low to the ground so we can pack and stack furniture and boxes to the ceiling. We go in apartment complexes, downtown cities, neighborhoods, everywhere a truck shouldn't be. Everything is an obstacle. Even some railroad crossings can get us caught if not careful. Those boxes underneath house our ramps to walk in the doors or load cars. It happens. I just wanted to clarify what kind of truck this was for all the ignorant comments who have no idea what they are talking about. $500-$800 and he'll be free and on to the next job.
it's like they had a paino In the front or something, that load looks heavy just for a move,coming from a mover....& the company will pay for the fine,that's why every driver is insured so they won't pay dues like this,well that's up here in Boston Ma,who know how it goes around your area
This is why they make shuttle trucks. Also the agency is supposed to send out someone to survey the area to make sure it's ok to maneuver and park a truck and trailor. Bad planning IMO.
So I wonder how do household movers deliver in San Francisco since many streets are like this? Do people just not move to San Francisco or do they have to haul their furniture up the hills on dollies?
He who has never made a mistake cast the first stone, if you are not one of these people be silent.
Amazing-on the North East there would have been 55 Cops two dozen cruisers and tickets flying like confetti.
If it weren't for the under belly storage boxes on the trailer, I believe he'd have been ok.
I also work for a moving company i was in the same situation in Wisconsin I poured a jug of laundry detergent between the black top and my belly box and was able to back out of it 😆 true story
All I can say is, this looks like a stressful job.
That tow truck guy looks like he just ran away from jail!
He look like the one who knocks....
Lol He really does look like Oscar White in Orange jumpsuit who finally found his new career
Those damn hills! After long drive .bottom out. I bet beer tasted good that night! Lol.
I feel for you bro,I'm a trucker my self,
I've always known that low-riding street rods were prone to this, but I never thought about a semi! Wow! How to plan for this?
I did a similar stunt with a moving van at a golf course only I was moving fast enough the trailer belly slid over the top of the little bridge I was going over. helped to there was maybe only a few tons of furniture for the golf clubs bar. Was the first and last time I hauled anything that low before. I agree though, we always seem to have these issues within sight of the delivery or pickup and no broker or dispatcher ever seem to think we need this crucial information.
Take the rod off the suspension leveling valve, lift it all the way up. Once the bags fully inflate, back up. If the trailer is air ride, do the same to it. I have had to do it once doing a residential delivery.
+account4info I have done that one myself and it saved my butt.
Good luck with the new ones, they are not very adjustable.
Walter White has a towing job?
i was just thinking the same ,ahaha
He has everything.
Peterbilt and Volvo trucks, the defenition of beautiful.
the truck in this video is a freightliner.
***** Doesn't change my statement =)
J Gripen
I agree with Peterbilt, volvo, I'm not so sure.
i think those police were very nice in guiding him out and helping him make a turn to get out of there... very cool
Stop when you feel yourself getting hung up. Put it in direct drive and back off a little. Anyone who operates a low trailer (with belly boxes) should know enough to pull out your decking beams and plywood (or blocking) and run your drives, then your rear tandems up on to them. Repeat as needed till you're on level ground. Since you called the wrecker you might as well drop the trailer (use blocks under the landing gear) pull your tractor out let the wrecker hook on to the trailer kingpin then follow him to the closest "flat spot with a coffee shop." Don't get hung up on railroad tracks. Leave the truck and call an UBER.
No one ever thinks how those trade shows and events get moved into those buildings downtown cities, they think they just magically appear.
All the trucks I drove in Scandinavia could raise the airbags both on trailer and truck and it would clear. Myself got almost stuck in Brooklyn taking the wrong turn. But dont blame the driver. Its challenging to drive in the cities.
that's messed up I bet if he didn't have that opossum belly it would have cleared
If you drive a lowboy, ALWAYS carry 2x4s. That said, the road wasnt even very "peaky"
40 Years of driving a semi-truck I can tell you many stories I am gone since retired you can see how many another line of work now
The problem is obvious from a former trucker like me...that trailer cannot run low-profile tires unless it never leaves the state of Kansas.
Well first of all that's almost considered as a low-Boy trailer hight to me because it's not the average Drybox night . That's a moving van which is lower than the average drybox and the tire's are small!
he's pulling a moving trailer, so how do some of you know if he's not a block away from his destination? This is just bad luck. He didn't put the angle of the hill there, or construct the trailer.
it's not necessarily bad luck it's not knowing the area
william mosco
Doubt it's bad luck. Real truckers don't have much bad luck or they become dispatchers.
Rookie error. He hit it hard enough to get hung up pretty good. A driver would have felt it out slowly and stopped as soon as it scraped bottom.
Wait for a cop and get some help backing out.
That's how it's done.
Before anyone else comments on fairings. They are not fairings. They are storage lockers for ramps, straps, etc.
Are you talking about the belly boxes under the trailer?
This job is never easy
A regular 53 footer wouldn't have gotten stuck.That's a moving trailer with the smaller tires and extra compartments beneath.
Just another reason to flatten the entire road system........ everywhere
This tow truck driver looks like he just got out of prison lol.
Welp, there goes your profit margin.
Disconnect the air suspension levelling rods and manually adjust the valves to inflate the bags to their maximum then drive over, or back off, the high spot. $500.00 winching fee saved. P.S. : Don't forget to reconnect the levelling rods!
That would probably work, if the bags will go that much higher.
That truck driver won't be attempting that fate again.
Thumbs up to the company that made that chain!!!!
I absolutely hate low-hanging trailers for this very reason. That said, the trucker should have known better. Even a standard trailer's undercarriage would have come close to the ground on that hill.
Agree 100%
FEDEX FREIGHT
SoN oFaBleepBlop FED EX Freight is the best of the best!
agreed
A regular trailer would have cleared that little hill just fine - wouldn't even be a close call.
Killer2600 Not sure about that Killer. Could have dragged the undercarriage legs on a normal trailer. Depends on the trailer setup, of course.
WHY do so many trucks have those low bellies? I have seen a few stuck like that, on in the entrance to a truck stop about 18" higher than the road on a fair gradient
Dispatch ain’t gonna be happy
Glad the driver stopped and didn't panic. If he would of kept driving that trailer would of been ruined
Everyone makes mistakes I'm sure that your hands and feet don't have holes in them. Sometimes we have to go to some messed up areas or miss a turn and now gotta figure a way out. So as long as you have ""NEVER" made any mistakes then you can say that.
That has got to be THE worst place to drive a semi...in downtown San Francisco, sheesh!
Is that Walter from Breaking Bad hooking up the tow truck at 1:30?
It's the companies fault. They shouldn't be sending low trailers to any part of downtown San Fransisco. The moving companies also own bobtail trucks for this very reason. Right tool for the right job.
This isn't San Francisco. It's Seattle. SMH.
Walter white is driving the tow truck no more meth !!!!!!!
what's the nice music on the end of the video? what song it is?
when I see a no truck rote sign in California , 13'6 is pretty much good 90% of the time it's for noise ordinance. as a mclane driver, nothing really matters we have 48s. you can fit them anywhere
Donald Forry put on your hazards and you can park anywhere you want...it just so happens to be next to a 711 LMAO
I suppose this is NYC. What neighborhood is this with that steep incline? Murray Hill? Which street? Below 14th of course but any precisions? Thanks from a former NYer.
By the way, nice Art Deco window railings behind the stuck truck.
Seattle, as per the descrip.
You're climbing a hill as steep as that and you're not wondering what happens at the top?
Wanna Get Away? A Southwest Airlines moment for sure
at the end of the video 7:29 Police saying f with the middle finger hahahaha!!!
Wow that guy in orange is Walter White, my chemistry teacher. We call him Heisenberg and pretend we dont know.
color fail
Time to COOK
Why driver not lifted up truck and trailer? In the EU we just rise pneumatic spring to a level high enough to manoeuver over obstacles and inconsistencies on paved surfaces.
I'm just curious, as a truck driver myself (NOT a computer nerd etc etc) why didn't the driver put his air suspension up ??? Would have saved a lot of money on the towing.
Well, driver error.
Set brakes, get half inch wrench.
Get under truck and take air level arm off. Push up and hold it and the truck will jack up 6 inches. Drive over hill and rehook air valve level arm.
10 min max.
One Slave Yeah, I would of done the same thing and even the airride trailer! Sounds like you've been out there awhile! As for me retired after 33yrs!
One Slave Nice Monday night quarterbacking!!!!
nice high center!!
Wooo! You got to be cautious of hills,when pulling a trailer with a belly.
Shoooot nowadays there would have been pieces of trailer throughout the whole town or the driver would have been sitting there smoking the tires down to the wire. At least this guy stopped and didn't try to tear his stuff up
Seattle? ANTIFA types would have had the truck stripped to the bone.
This truck driver must be a beginner !!! He didn't know his equipment !!!
John barfneck
Nah he would of made it without those damn skirts.
those moving vans are like driving low boys. screw that s!@#
The tow truck operator reminds me of Walter White.
I just did this and am waiting for the wrecker
Good filming.
Any one know what is the full address ?....so we know how to avoid this area pls
Poor guy. Thats sucks.
in europe all new traylers have a air suspenssion lift the truck and the trayller or put hood something under the weels nice vedeo mate
If you drive for a living, and your dispatch tells you "go downtown San Fran" then you go downtown San Fran! It is absolutely horrifying in a small car, let alone a big rig. My ex and her kids insisted we visit Fishermans Wharf while pulling the 26 foot camp trailer behind my F150 4 door. Key word..."ex".
holly shit I thought this was San fran. didn't know Seattle had hills in the city.
+John barfneck Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada for the record. ;)
Why would anyone (trailer manufacturer) add this to the driver's list of worries? Now in addition to the normal big truck in a city problems, he has to worry about "can I make it over this little rise in the road?"
I would hate life driving that through downtown
Brittany farrier
I appreciate your comments, these people don't know hell about trucking, although driver has to blame himself at end
trucking is one of the worst paying job in the country as I did for 5 years, no wonder truck drivers are getting out of it.
Good Comments below. At least it wasn't on a rail road track.
Its that tool box or what ever it is at the bottom of the trailer
wow just looking at that hill and your trailer would of told you that was not a good idea .......but hey live and learn .....glad to see he got pulled free
People who designed this road should pay for the tow. .
Cant believe that cardboard under the tires didn't work.
Since this is a drop deck van, couldn't the driver have raised the rear of the trailer to docking height and given himself some extra clearance to possibly drive out of this? Sure he'd be over 13'6" for a bit but as long as there was clearance above he'd be alright. Just asking, I'm not a driver so pardon my ignorance if I missed something.
You can't raise your height only drop the rear of the tractor by deflating the airbags.
JungleListSoldier I can lift my trailer almost half foot. And my truck same. Then I live and work in Sweden and we have different trucks here over.
Yeah, these drop decks usually have tall air bags so the rear of the trailer can be raised to a normal 48" dock height with the flick of a switch.
no stil would not work not every truck allow u to dump air out the air bag all those air bag allready high
Myself being the tow truck operater I would have unhooked trailer from tractor and used the wheel lift on the wrecker to lift trailer and back it off the hill or even pull forward up the hill...would not have dragged the trailer at all....either way he freed the truck. I would have just done it differently...
They should have a sign saying truck s are not allowed I mean but we all make mistakes so don't judge that driver I'm pretty sure if your not a truck driver you done made some mistakes in a car
Is that Walter White operating the tow truck?
At 6:49 I thought he was going to ground the rear end backing out!
Surprised they winched the truck with pedestrians strolling by. With the load on the cable, if there's any problem which causes it to snap a passer-by could be badly injured, if not killed.
take the rod loose on your airbags and make sure the brakes are set over inflate the air bags just enough to pick the trailer up a half inch back up to get it off the hill and then drain the bags back down to original ride hight if it doesn't do it ,dothe same to the trailer to get you out of a bind the tools are already there to keep you from getting a raging tow bill ,same thing if u get stuck order a bridge and can't move completely drain the air out of the bags on the tractor and the trailer and usually you can back up to get out or drive all the way throgh to get out most of the time it works been using this method for 43 yrs of driving and idrag double drops and low boys gooseneck trls air bags are our freinds ,,always carry 2 6 inch long 4 by 4s and two 6inch 2by 4s in the side box ,if the trailer falls off the tractor get the frame rails under the trailer use the air to picking up about 2 to3 inches crank the landing gear down let the air out all the way put 2by 4 and the 4 by 4 on the frame rail fill with air crank landing gear down again drain air and repeat again until you can get the 5th wheel ears under the trailer pt the airs under the trailer put air to bags with brakes set pick it up again crank landing gear down then you can back under it and hook it up work smarter not harder you have everything you need to do the job just need the brain capacity to make it work without hurting your self
This is why truck driving job is stressful
Don't you have air on trucks in the US were you can lift the back up and down
I’m so glad I don’t do OTR anymore
I thought it was called "bottoming out" myself.
He backed all the way from Tully's to Starbuck's.
Man in orange ! W. White ! Heisenberg !
Don't always turn where your GPS says go on Google maps and plan ahead. This might be better for a shuttle.
maybe if the driver had raise the suspension height on both the trailer and tractor ,"maybe" he had a chance to at least back out and save the tow fee, but I wasn't there and don't know if he tried that. I have helped a couple of drivers in similar situations, that didn't know you could do that,
There are companies that will not let drivers touch anything like that on the truck. You can grease it, anything else will be left to the mechanics.
since when does Heisenberg drive a tow truck?
Is the tow operator Walter Wright?
The road engineers should have know better!