• mycatiskai
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    1 year ago

    When I am dropping the air out of a tractor to decouple from a trailer the truck alarms to tell me the air is blowing out of the suspension.

    Why don’t these trucks have a warning system like that?

    • TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
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      1 year ago

      They are supposed to. But I’ve heard from drivers in the dump truck industry that the alarms are often disabled by drivers because “they are annoying”.

      My tractor I can’t dump the airbags if I’m going over 10km/h, can’t release the 5th wheel slider if trailer parking brakes are released, and tons of other safety features.