And You Don't Chock Your Wheels?

[ols1932]

There's an old saying that applies in situations like this when someone's rig rolls after unhooking: "You can't fix stupid!"

Orv

[exav8tr]

quote:Originally posted by ols1932

There's an old saying that applies in situations like this when someone's rig rolls after unhooking: "You can't fix stupid!"

Orv

As Forrest would say: Stupid is as stupid does!!!!!! When we were RV'ing, as soon as we pulled in and were ready to unhook, my copilot was chocking the wheels, not sometimes, but ALL the time. She was a great copilot and still is, although, right now she is captain and I am copilot....

[kab449]

There is a different approach when the trailer has the level up system. The X chocks don't work when the axles are lifted by the center jacks. This is what I do: place ground chocks against tire on the down slope side, Lower landing legs to the point where I would uncouple, place level up in manual mode and firmly plant the rear 4 jacks into the ground, unhooking the truck and most times I manually level the unit using the little lights on the keypad. Every time I do this when I am done I could take the ground chocks away as there is no pressure on them. When I hitch it to go home I just raise or lower the landing legs to the correct level, secure it to the truck before manually retracting the remainder of the jacks. Yes I don't use the automatic level part but on a sloping site I feel more comfortable this way.