You didn't say what was on the rear of your C50 but my guess is someone installed it so the truck would sit still.
We had Micro Locs on all our wreckers and in the 9 years I drove them never once had a problem with them. We didn't use them as a parking brake, just used them when we were working the truck.

Dan


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