RV Crushes Truck
This guy dropped his 5th Wheel on the back of his truck on video. Not me BTW. What I can't figure out is how it happened. Go to about the 18 minute mark to see him checking everything, but it s...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
The handle simply was not pushed in all the way as shown in pic above. BUT the slide bar WAS behind the kingpin at the appropriate level. It was simply NOT fully hitched, NOT high hitched.
"High hitch" means bottom of kingpin is setting on TOP of the slide bar or jaws and is EASILY seen with having a large gap between the hitch head plate and the pin box bottom plate.
If the bar was behind the king pin fully or partly, it would not have dropped the trailer on the truck is just a couple feet moving straight forward. There are gaps in the video, so who knows what the guy did or did not do right.
I still content that it had to be high hitched.
