If you’ve ever had to crank hard on the landing-gear handle to raise a trailer’s nose to match a fifth wheel’s height, you know what a pain that can be for your arms, shoulders and back.

2. Crank the landing gear legs up all the way. Then, in high gear, lower the legs three turns. 3. Pump 2 ounces (about 6-8 pumps) of grease into the three zerks – one on the gearbox, another at ...

My design eliminates the struggle of adjusting the trailer landing gear manually with a crank handle, ... Calif., "so I invented the AUTOMATIC LANDING GEAR CRANK.

Speed Crank won’t disengage from the input shaft when shifting and won’t come off the input shaft when cranking the landing gear, Austin-Westran says. Speed Crank can be stowed by pulling back ...

Other applications require the landing gear to lift a fully loaded trailer so the efficiency of the lifting capabilities — lifting the heaviest load with minimal input torque at the crank handle ...

ATLANTA — Ultralift Technologies has a power tool for raising and lowering trailer landing gear that the company said could help reduce the number of repetitive motion injuries among truck drivers.

To learn this, he and his team, which included researchers from North Carolina State University, built a mock-up of landing gear and asked 12 male drivers to crank while they measured their ...

PITTSBURGH, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a transportation manager with 7 years experience in the industry and very familiar with the hardships and dangers faced by truck drivers on a daily ...