This matter is of utmost importance to me, The Leader Of the Pigeon Appreciation Group, beam plz fix this.
Maybe because the pigeon has been going through a lot of changes recently, like getting UV Skinmaps, reworked suspension, all that stuff, so the Devs have been focusing on that more so than the tailgate, and, then again, you could just use the node grabber to open it and respawn to close it...