Campinfan wrote:
Allworth wrote:
OK tinfoil hat people!
Never in twelve years of extensive RVing with a fiver have I seen (or talked to anyone who has, in person, seen) a fifth wheel hitch that was released by pranksters. Not the pins. Not the release handle. None! Never!
Maybe I travel in the wrong locations. I have only been in thirty some odd states. I guess all the pranksters are in the other twelve.
If anybody out there has a picture of a fiver that was released by pranksters; or a copy of a Police Report covering such an event, they should post it for all to see. (Fives dropped due to operator error don't count!)
We should all probably be more worried about lightning hitting the trailer while in motion and setting the truck on fire!
I like your thinking, Allworth. We seem to hear these stories but I have not heard anyone where someone said it happened to them or where they have direct knowledge. Sounds like an urban legend, but doing a once over when you come back to your rig is never a bad idea. I have heard of people finding tire issues by doing this and I found a piece of loose trim around the door that covers the screws.
Guys, like I said in my last post I HAD IT HAPPEN TO ME years ago in the state of Arkansas. It happen late in the evening in a rain. When the rig pulled away from the hitch I managed to stop with the rig on the bed of the truck, I did not have a camera with me nor did I have time if I did to take pix trying to reload a rig in the rain in the middle of the highway was not to do anything else in the dark. Believe me, It can happen. I drove big rigs for years and all ways heard stories of drivers having their kingpins pulled.
