So what’s the difference between a curtainsider and a tautliner?
Also, although there is info here on C/S, there isn’t on other body types that I can see, and if they are can they be linked to the training stickies that are on here too?
Body examples: Fridges, their associated sections and the like. The engine bits that control them. Securing methods inside them, tail lifts and that sort of thing.
Ok, I know a few of those already but I have already come across a few new tail lifts last year that required a bit of head-scratching (because no one was there to ask) but there are others that don’t and that’s the whole purpose of this online training material
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So what’s the difference between a curtainsider and a tautliner?
Also, although there is info here on C/S, there isn’t on other body types that I can see, and if they are can they be linked to the training stickies that are on here too?
Body examples: Fridges, their associated sections and the like. The engine bits that control them. Securing methods inside them, tail lifts and that sort of thing.
Ok, I know a few of those already but I have already come across a few new tail lifts last year that required a bit of head-scratching (because no one was there to ask) but there are others that don’t and that’s the whole purpose of this online training material
This thread seems to answer the taightliner/curtainsider question viewtopic.php?p=272154
A curtainsider is the generic name for a trailer with vinyl sidesheets secured with buckles fitted vertically, “Tautliner” is a registered trade name used by the trailer builder Boalloy, who invented this type of trailer.
So there is no difference at all, it is just like referring to sticky tape as Sellotape.
Hi
if you go down to your bookstore and buy the truckers handbook , that has info in there about tail lifts and other stuff too , from hooking up trailers to different gearboxes , when I first started out was invaluable to me, mines very dogeared now
And what about the fridge stuff?