importance of wheel chocks

waltfire wrote:
a brand new cedar creek was loading up to go home, the guy never chocked his wheels, so when he was backing in a little high the trailer should have rose up to hitch instead he pushed it off the blocks and dropped it on the bed of his new truck.
I was taught chocking your tires is the first thing and last thing you do even on level ground. If 15,000 pounds decides to move you can't stop it otherwise.

First off, why was it on blocks so tall that when it dropped it hit the bed? If it was prepped to be delivered, it would have had batteries in it and the dealer could have used their forklift to raise it up off the blocks so the legs could be dropped, then adjusted to hitch height. Second mistake was, obviously, no wheel chocks. =Ass=uming this was at a dealer, and the customer was a newbie, I'd put =both= mistakes squarely on the dealer's shoulders and they should fix the guy's truck.

Lyle