A lot of companies now have signs up saying if you split couple or use the shunt button you will be barred form the premises. 
Which is all well and good unless you NEED to due to a lack of space on the cat walk. It’s only when people cut corners that it goes wrong…
That is exactly what the shunt button is for, shunting in a tight space, with a 13.6 deep pin trailer the lines stretch even on the road, so bungees are almost imperative. I hate to see the tyres squirming and being pulled off the rims and would always have a shunt.
When lorries were driven onto ferries and they turned round inside, the crew would wet the decks to make them more slippery. I would always refuse to drive over chains too which made them chunter a bit.
dar1976:
Does the shunt button reset once you put air lines back on or do you need to go and manually reset it?
Yes but they CAN stick in and when the air has gone, your brakes start to bind and smoke starts pouring from axles… had to call out the fire brigade twice for this problem (Before I was aware what a shunt valve did)
Seany:
We have a lot of delivery points where you have to screw it round. You wouldn’t be able to shunt or reverse in.
So your helpful advice wouldn’t work.
Given that you drove into it and screw it round to get back out, then you’re talking bollox. Just because you’re so crap at reversing you can’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Conor:
Seany:
We have a lot of delivery points where you have to screw it round. You wouldn’t be able to shunt or reverse in.
So your helpful advice wouldn’t work.Given that you drove into it and screw it round to get back out, then you’re talking bollox. Just because you’re so crap at reversing you can’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Connor is renowned worldwide for being Gods gift to driving!
Are you trying to say that any place you can go forwards you can get in going backwards because I don’t agree the angles would be different for a start seeing as your pivoting from the rear rather than the front.
merc0447:
Soon as you put the red air line on the shunt button pops back outself, likewise the shunt button won’t engage with the red air line on. Some companies deactivate the shunt button to stop their shunters using it, a few of our trailers are like this so in tight yards have to take all lines off except the red.
You cant use the shunt with the red line connected,and the reason they “disconnect” the shunt is because,sad to say,some of the idiots that drive trucks have got the attension span of a bloody goldfish.
As for the electric susies how about using a bit of common eh? you are supposed to be a “proffesional”
Conor:
Seany:
We have a lot of delivery points where you have to screw it round. You wouldn’t be able to shunt or reverse in.
So your helpful advice wouldn’t work.Given that you drove into it and screw it round to get back out, then you’re talking bollox. Just because you’re so crap at reversing you can’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
To be fair you are talking like a bell 
If a yard has a turning circle that the lorry just spins around in how would you suggest turning around?
Reversing skills have nothing to do with it.
Anyway the company tells us to screw it round and they pay for the tyres and the suzies stay connected and still the same set for the last 2 years I’ve worked there 
Seany:
Conor:
Seany:
We have a lot of delivery points where you have to screw it round. You wouldn’t be able to shunt or reverse in.
So your helpful advice wouldn’t work.Given that you drove into it and screw it round to get back out, then you’re talking bollox. Just because you’re so crap at reversing you can’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
To be fair you are talking like a bell
If a yard has a turning circle that the lorry just spins around in how would you suggest turning around?
Reversing skills have nothing to do with it.
Anyway the company tells us to screw it round and they pay for the tyres and the suzies stay connected and still the same set for the last 2 years I’ve worked there
Don’t bother about it anyone that’s been on that kind of work knows it. Usually I’ve had it on supermarket or waste transfer stations and that’s just how it’s done, they keep the yard just clear enough of crap to spin it round and probably be a verbal warning, at least, if you decided you were going to use a supermarket car park full of shoppers and pedestrains to showcase your reversing skills.
The OP’s place probably need to look at putting susies with more coils on and/or better quality. On the topic of shunt buttons we’ve done quite a lot of work for big fleets disabling shunt buttons and putting the park brake on the headboard, usually after they’ve had a rollaway incident of some sort. 
shuttlespanker:
If you have to screw it round that tight, why not drop the lines off and push the shunt button?
TOO EASY FOR A DRIVER THAT ONE! 
used to do that all the time and my mates used to look at me as if I was simple!
Anyone remember MAGUIRES OF CHELTENHAM? my mate went for a job, passed everything and came back into yard and the bloke says " stick it in there pal! " so goes to spin it round on his GOOD side and said comedian pipes up " no, no me tyres! 
, back her in blindside! 
" so my mate jock says " you what? Hit two motors or scrub some tyres! FOXTROT OSCAR! " and abandons said ARTIC in the yard!
Fatboy slimslow:
Anyone remember MAGUIRES OF CHELTENHAM?
I happen to know that the Maguire Brothers were excellent drivers who could reverse an artic on both sides with equal ease. They expected their employees to attain the same high standards. Looking after the vehicle and equipment was as important as driving the thing down the road. As it was to all “proper” drivers.
Own Account Driver:
Seany:
Conor:
Seany:
We have a lot of delivery points where you have to screw it round. You wouldn’t be able to shunt or reverse in.
So your helpful advice wouldn’t work.Given that you drove into it and screw it round to get back out, then you’re talking bollox. Just because you’re so crap at reversing you can’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
To be fair you are talking like a bell
If a yard has a turning circle that the lorry just spins around in how would you suggest turning around?
Reversing skills have nothing to do with it.
Anyway the company tells us to screw it round and they pay for the tyres and the suzies stay connected and still the same set for the last 2 years I’ve worked thereDon’t bother about it anyone that’s been on that kind of work knows it. Usually I’ve had it on supermarket or waste transfer stations and that’s just how it’s done, they keep the yard just clear enough of crap to spin it round and probably be a verbal warning, at least, if you decided you were going to use a supermarket car park full of shoppers and pedestrains to showcase your reversing skills.
At last, someone who knows what they’re talking about!