stackyFACTSWithout a horrific amount of messy lubrication, the metal-on-metal scraping between a heavy trailer and the truck's coupling plate would scream like a dying banshee. Drivers literally slather handfuls of thick, black sludge onto the massive plate just so it can pivot.
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