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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 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.