Evening all,
Have been looking at a job with Spar says drawbar trailers in advert.
Anybody know if it is A frame or straight bar?
Drove a Aframe once for Tuffnells with no training or advice and had a nightmare day, although it turned out the office and customers spent all day taking the ■■■■ sending me places that an artic normally picked up from.
Are they easy to drive given a little practice?
Cheers
CHAINSAW:
Evening all,
Have been looking at a job with Spar says drawbar trailers in advert.
Anybody know if it is A frame or straight bar?
Drove a Aframe once for Tuffnells with no training or advice and had a nightmare day, although it turned out the office and customers spent all day taking the ■■■■ sending me places that an artic normally picked up from.
Are they easy to drive given a little practice?
Cheers
Yes they are a doddle.
bobbya:
CHAINSAW:
Evening all,
Have been looking at a job with Spar says drawbar trailers in advert.
Anybody know if it is A frame or straight bar?
Drove a Aframe once for Tuffnells with no training or advice and had a nightmare day, although it turned out the office and customers spent all day taking the ■■■■ sending me places that an artic normally picked up from.
Are they easy to drive given a little practice?
CheersYes they are a doddle.
Reversing an A frame ■■ Might be once you have mastered the art but can be a nightmare before then. Small alterations with the steering wheel and take it slowly then you may get to within a mile of where you want it to be.
raymundo:
bobbya:
CHAINSAW:
Evening all,
Have been looking at a job with Spar says drawbar trailers in advert.
Anybody know if it is A frame or straight bar?
Drove a Aframe once for Tuffnells with no training or advice and had a nightmare day, although it turned out the office and customers spent all day taking the ■■■■ sending me places that an artic normally picked up from.
Are they easy to drive given a little practice?
CheersYes they are a doddle.
Reversing an A frame ■■ Might be once you have mastered the art but can be a nightmare before then. Small alterations with the steering wheel and take it slowly then you may get to within a mile of where you want it to be.
Yes
Sweet bit of kit going forwards. I would advise against going backwards if at all possible though. Anyone I have spoken to about them hates them and I don’t know anyone who will touch them
Plenty of practice in an open space, figure out in your own head how the trailer works then once you got it it’s no harder than any other trailer, this was my old truck
CHAINSAW:
Evening all,
Have been looking at a job with Spar says drawbar trailers in advert.
Anybody know if it is A frame or straight bar?
Drove a Aframe once for Tuffnells with no training or advice and had a nightmare day, although it turned out the office and customers spent all day taking the ■■■■ sending me places that an artic normally picked up from.
Are they easy to drive given a little practice?
Cheers
I’ve never driven A-frame drawbar trucks, only took my test on a straight drawbar, but I’ve also never seen an A-frame used by a British operator - only foreign ones. Even with a straight drawbar though, getting a drag under a demountable box isn’t easy.
The A frame set up I drove was for Alstons the furniture people at Ipswich, and the trailers were demountable and yes, it could be a struggle. And a drawbar for Murfitts which was a doodle, and also one for the one legged mafiosa from Mendlesham.
IndigoJo:
I’ve also never seen an A-frame used by a British operator - only foreign ones. Even with a straight drawbar though, getting a drag under a demountable box isn’t easy.
do tuffnels use a frames ?
tonez:
do tuffnels use a frames ?
They were/are known for a mainly A frame drawbar based operation.Although some say that they usually drop their trailers in the yard and let shunters move them around with shunting wagons using nose couplings.
Used a few when I was military. Easiest way to maneuvre them then was to drop 'em, turn the prime mover 180 degrees and push the buggers into position!
Never had front end couplings with the Alstons motors so had to do it the real truckers way
raymundo:
Never had front end couplings so had to do it the real truckers way
There are plenty of firms where that’s as expected.
Never driven one myself and don’t want to.
Always had a lot of respect for the guys that do.
Known over here as dog trailers, Pig trailers are like a big car trailer. Anyway, when you reverse, your first tiny turn of the wheel is the same as a rigid, then follow it. Big thing to remember is not to lose site of the corners of the trailer if you can help it. It’s actually harder to reverse it in a straight line than to put it around a corner. You have to ‘walk’ it backwards to go straight. Easier to watch than to tell. Have a google search for reversing B Doubles, it’s the same.
scanny77:
Sweet bit of kit going forwards. I would advise against going backwards if at all possible though. Anyone I have spoken to about them hates them and I don’t know anyone who will touch them
why not? As long as a steering wheel is in the cab.
But higher Pay,as it is more work
raymundo:
Never had front end couplings with the Alstons motors so had to do it the real truckers way![]()
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difference between Trucker and Steeringwheel Turner
Immigrant:
raymundo:
Never had front end couplings with the Alstons motors so had to do it the real truckers way![]()
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difference between Trucker and Steeringwheel Turner
Reckon I’d be a Steeringwheel turner in one then.
Once watched a German lad backing one into a dodgy bay in Belgium. He had it down to a fine art.
Like I said, no desire to drive one, I’ ll just stick to being unbelievable at reversing artics
Wow that got a great of response cheers guys
I might apply and if I get ask for the relevant training. New experiences and all that.
Yes in Tuffnells a lot of the drivers (don’t blame them either) dropped the box for the shunter to shift.
There is an art to driving them for sure and I admire the guys who do, guess that’s why there are lots of scratches down the side of the bodies.
The only time I drove one it took me half an hour to get the trailer in position and when I unhitched it the fork lift driver who had been watching with a grin at my Tourettes told me “we normally just lift it into position with the forks” - cheers for that mate …