As the title says I had an assessment today with culina. Drive went well, as did the reversing and trailer swap. I’ve been shunting for 6 months so if I cocked up the reversing or trailer swap, I want shooting!
Then at the end of the drive, the assessor asked me some questions. 3 caught me out, so I thought I would ask you guys to find out how I did.
Question 1: when changing a trailer, how do you find the height of the new trailer?
Answer 1: it’s printed on the headboard, just set the height indicator. (That was a guess, I have no idea how to measure the height of the 5th wheel)
Question 2: how do you do a printout mid shift. WITHOUT taking the card out of the tacho?
Answer: I have no idea (but it would be handy to know)
Question 3: you are doing a manual entry and ‘ufp guest’ comes up, what do you do next?
Answer: eject the card and start again (total blag! I have never seen it, and have no idea what it means)
Notes: the trailer height is printed on the trailer, so I thought that I should just go by that. It is given that the fifth wheel is x high. Without a height stick, I can’t see any better way of doing it. It would be handy to know how to do a printout mid shift in case I need to do a couple. No idea whatsoever what ufp means, I would be interested to know.
Maybe the answer to these questions could help others out too. The other questions he asked me were easy questions, speed limits, rest breaks, load security etc the usual boring crap, it won’t serve to help anyone out me typing all that. Others have asked and answered a million times and a quick search answers the questions.
On another note, it’s Friday yay! I’ve got holiday next week, so all is well in jbaz land! Plan to chill out and got a couple of interviews next week.