Bewick:
Bking:
For all the [zb] anobody on here can teach you how to rope and sheet in “one easy lesson”!
They are full of bollox.
Because roping and sheeting is like good ■■■
The more you practise with different loads the better you get.
My sentiments exactly “Bking”,spot on with your analysis!! I’ve heard it all now, Sheeting and Roping by correspondence course on line.[zb] well immpossible,the craft of sheeting and roping cannot be taught either by e.mail or by a fleeting visit to some trailer park for a couple of hours!! All I can say is there could be a very dangerous load taking to the roads if this guy is let loose by his prospective employer,very irresponsible if you ask me, but of course this is modern day road transport at its best,the mind boggles and am I glad to out of it ! 
Bewick.
Hey Bewick,
You arrived here safely then bud.
I’ve been waiting for you to join the party with great anticipation.
But I’m genuinely disappointed in the response, as some on here had PM’d me about contacting you and held you in great esteem. I was hoping you might have said something useful.
Dad said there’d always be blokes like you in this game, but I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting them on the road yet…hey a first time for me again. Both of us have always wondered though why you could never find them forward gears easily 
You had to learn all manner of driving skills at one time in your life didn’t you? It’s not an innate knowledge you was born with and you can’t kid us on here that it was either, as that’d be porkies now!
There were men before you who was doing this job, like my grandfather etc. He would have passed the skills on to others to learn, so why can’t I learn bud, like you did?
Why does it have to be a dark art that you 30-40+ years experienced drivers hold all the secrets too. My father (he’s got 40+ year’s experience of driving HGV’s by the way) said if I can find someone to show me in 2013 how to rope and sheet. I’m to listen intently and put the time in to practice and then listen to what will be taught to me if I pass the job interview, I might just learn something along the way.
Also why can’t I attempt to gain the experience of starting to learn a new skill, seriously?
People holding onto skills and not sharing them is how important skills are lost. As unfortunately you and I won’t be on this planet forever! One of the main reasons why some trades die off in this world now, purely because of egotistical attitudes and the kids can’t be bothered with listening to the BS rather than showing some respect to the teacher and vice versa with the teacher giving some respect to the pupil trying to learn.
If you hadn’t noticed on the road, there are not many places that do rope and sheeting. So it is harder to find the people to show you things like this in practice, which is what I have always asked for on here.
No-one’s teaching me by email are they■■? They are giving me stuff to practice and try to get straight in my head, a bit like a theory so I can actually understand what is going on. Rather than just tying a knot and not knowing why it is done or what it’s importance is. Now that would be dangerous wouldn’t it, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and all that etc!
And there was no way I was going to go to trailer park for three hours and then walk away saying I know it all, got the T-shirt. I have not got a clue where you interpreted that from (Jesus, man I’m in my mid thirties now, I know not to be cocky as you’ll end up zbing up in a major way, no matter what job you do, be it driving or screwing or surgery).
I sure as hell won’t let myself say at the interview or try and kid people I know everything. Because guess what…unlike some on here I don’t know everything. The ones who say they know everything are usually the most dangerous ones of all!
Firstly you didn’t read the OP very carefully, this is for an assessment for a job interview. However I know enough about the company to know they only do flat bed work, be it just a rigid/artic, with/without, HIAB/Moffett, so I already know there’s going to be quite a bit of roping and sheeting involved in the job.
Also you made an incredibly large assumption, which is making you and me look like an arse now (another good thing about trucknet is that it is supposed to be about reading and comprehension, yet quite a lot of us on here seem to struggle with that basic task).
The employer I’ve already had two chats with about this particular job. Once on the phone and the other in person. I’ve already been told, I’d be very lucky to be going out on my own, doing my own loads and driving on my own within the first 4-6 months if I am successful and my initial salary is going to reflect that fact, unfortunately for me.
Because hey guess what, they are going to be training me, so I can at least do the job safely, maybe not up to your very experienced standards of a corner being sharper than a samauri sword, but I would like to hope that I can get close to that standard as time goes by.
This particular company have two specialities I would really like to be able to do and if I can show aptitude, I would really want to get into. Coupled with the fact they have been in business before my Dad started driving, so they must be doing something right to have survived this long.
Also they are within a 20-25 minutes drive of where I live now, so a reasonable commute and they don’t tend to do nights out.
So there you go, you’ll most probably take it as a personal attack and get in a huff. Then might come back on here and say zbing this and zbing that to me and about me, but hey ho, you might not. However whatever you say now I can’t help how you feel towards those helping me and my generation of drivers.
You know the most disappointing thing for me was, I hoped you was going to say that you’d be willing to pass some of your experience on to me in person, as I was willing to travel anywhere for the help. Hell even Carryfast recommended you, and that’s with me and him bickering at the moment.
But alas we know that won’t happen unfortunately for me. You’ll just slag us youngsters off over a keyboard instead, which I’m not even youngster at my age now, instead. 
You know what we say on construction sites now, about our skill shortages and even some skill losses in my game. The Second World War baby boomer generation are a very selfish and bitter generation towards later generations. I for one, am not sure why? As I am willing to listen to those more experienced than me in whatever skill they possess that I don’t, as guess what, I reckon they can teach me a thing or two.
And if they do teach me something and it stays in, I might stand out a little better from the crowd and be alright in the future.
I don’t know whether you are like that, so I am not going to say that about you. As I’ve need had the chance to meet you in person, to assess whether you are truly like that.
Shame we didn’t get a chance meet in person though and you felt like posting that comment, especially saying that about others who were genuinely trying to help me with my query.
My initial OP was that if someone can show me the knots and the kind of things I need to bear in mind. Surely common sense would say that I’d stand out a bit better than the other candidates applying as I’d have an understanding of what they are trying to do.
That prosepective employer then may believe that I am geniunely interested in learning how to do the job properly and safely. Rather than the majority of bs and blaggers they have to sift through nowadays!
On a positive now, thank you for taking the time to post the pictures and also that wooden toy truck looks very smart.
Take care out there.
C
but I think you got there in the end. (it took me a few loads & lots of swearing to get it right when I first got taught