How often do you grease your fifth wheel?

I always pull the same wagon. Grease weekly and clean all the junk off once a month or at oil change. Whatever comes first. Overkill, really, but I like my equipment.

 

My mega did it every 30k miles.

My new company does it once a month.

 

I pull the same trailer. I try to remember to do it every couple of weeks (I don't pull a lot of miles. If I do 1500 miles in a week I've worked to hard). A few times I have gone longer then I should have. I need to get in the habit of once every two weeks or something (a week is too soon with my driving habits)

 

Every pm service is when that gets done.Otherwise u can ask your company's shop to put some grease on the fifthwheel.

 

As per instructors at school, you should keep a thin cover of grease on the 5th wheel until bare spots begin to show. Then you reapply grease until you have a thin cover over all the surface.
But, as I was hauling a load of metal cans from MN, every turn I made, every truck that passed by mine, every gust of wind, I heard "clicking" from behind me within my truck. It prompted me to stop at truck pullouts a couple times to do a walk-around. I was looking for bulges in my van walls to tell if a pallet was tipped and there were loose cans rolling around, but it was loaded without leaving room. I looked for busted rivets in the van panels. All intact.
Well, I was due in the terminal for PM, so I told the mechanic about it. BTW, it wasn't the first time I heard this "clicking." He told me when my truck was finished that I needed to replace the grease on my 5th wheel, which he had. He said that whenever it appears dried out, it's lost it lubricating properties, and you're feeling, and hearing the result of, metal-to-metal contact.
Well, gotta, go.

 

My truck has an automatic fifth wheel greaser, so.... never. The greaser itself gets refilled when we get oil changes.

 

This may be helpful.

http://www.overdriveonline.com/how-to-maintain-a-fifth-wheel/

 

If you're only using one trailer, I recommend a slick disc. I put one on a year ago and never have to grease the fifth wheel. I'm not sure how often you have to replace them, but I check it every few weeks when I unhook and it's still good. The best part is, it's only $30 or $40 and I don't have to get dirty.

 

With extended service intervals we have today, it almost needs to be specifically addressed about every 10k miles at least whether you change trailers or not.