So here's how the rest of the afternoon went. The shop said that fixing the tandem slider on the trailer would be a very time-consuming process (4 to 6 hours), so Schneider Maintenance came up with a "solution" that took less time: cutting off the pin that wouldn't work. As another driver put it, that's roughly akin to healing a broken finger by cutting it off. But it did at least allow me to move the tandems when I returned to the shipper, more than an hour after my original appointment.
And once again, Schneider's estimated time proved to be wildly inaccurate. The computer said one hour. It took more than three. As such, I'm stuck taking my DOT Break here. Further, there's no way at all I can make on time delivery in Michigan by 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. Even more, if they insist that I try deliver it Friday, I'll be overdue for my tractor PM. The trailer needs to be repaired as well; even though running it with only three pins is legal, that doesn't mean it's safe to simply leave it in that condition. But all this has to wait until morning; I'm not going anywhere for another nine hours or so.
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