Survey: How often do you chock your wheels?
I was in a campground in Kansas that was as flat as a billiard table, and my neighbor had all four trailer wheels chocked front and back. I thought this was overkill and it prompted my to ask this qu...
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Always before I unhitch and they stay chocked until I'm hitched. I use the type that locks between the tires.
Here's what can happen if you don't chock even on flat land. I duplicated video tapes for a lawyer involved in a lawsuit where a wife had been killed while the husband was hitching up their 5th wheel. She was in between the truck and the 5th wheel. He was backing in to set the pin. Some how the pin rode up on the hitch plate, that lifted the landing gear off the ground. The king pin slipped off the front of the hitch plate causing the 5th wheel to roll forward just enough to pin her to the truck before the landing gear contacted the ground. The wheels of the 5th wheel were not chocked. If they had been it may have saved her life.
And she shouldn't have been standing where she was.
Here's what can happen if you don't chock even on flat land. I duplicated video tapes for a lawyer involved in a lawsuit where a wife had been killed while the husband was hitching up their 5th wheel. She was in between the truck and the 5th wheel. He was backing in to set the pin. Some how the pin rode up on the hitch plate, that lifted the landing gear off the ground. The king pin slipped off the front of the hitch plate causing the 5th wheel to roll forward just enough to pin her to the truck before the landing gear contacted the ground. The wheels of the 5th wheel were not chocked. If they had been it may have saved her life.
And she shouldn't have been standing where she was.
