What is there to know about car transporters to be safe.
I would appreciate any advice offered especially those who have had first hand experience.
global.
That you can’t drive them all at once?
That you need 6 drivers?
You shouldn’t try to load 7 cars on them 
I’ll get my coat … TAXI 
Make sure you got no victor meldews sleeping on the back seat 
make sure you have put the handbrake on before you get out of the car you just loaded at the top of the ramp, they don’t half go a long way when you don’t 
i will get my coat too
global:
What is there to know about car transporters to be safe.
I would appreciate any advice offered especially those who have had first hand experience.
global.
A lot, but you would be trained, they drive like a ■■■■, expect to crap ones self at 45mph until you get used to the sway, If you try to hold the steering straight you have about 200yards before the swaying starts. Honestly you could not be safe with just a few bits of advice on here.
Watch out for trees when loaded and coming off trunk route…
wildfire:
make sure you have put the handbrake on before you get out of the car you just loaded at the top of the ramp, they don’t half go a long way when you don’ti will get my coat too
They don’t go that far …
iangam:
global:
A lot, but you would be trained, they drive like a ■■■■, expect to crap ones self at 45mph until you get used to the sway, If you try to hold the steering straight you have about 200yards before the swaying starts. Honestly you could not be safe with just a few bits of advice on here.
+1 wot he said.
It takes years to learn the job, many hopefuls start and few out of the new starters make it 12 months, most pack it in within a few weeks.
You get filthy wet cold/hot depending and you regularly get hurt, not a job for softies.
animal:
This may helpviewtopic.php?f=2&t=67239&p=841293&hilit=car+transporters+buck+rogers#p841293
Thanks for that link Animal, the post by Buck Rogers is the bible to read for anyone considering transporter work.
Juddian:
animal:
This may helpviewtopic.php?f=2&t=67239&p=841293&hilit=car+transporters+buck+rogers#p841293
Thanks for that link Animal, the post by Buck Rogers is the bible to read for anyone considering transporter work.
It is think it should be made a sticky or something save searching
Juddian:
animal:
This may helpviewtopic.php?f=2&t=67239&p=841293&hilit=car+transporters+buck+rogers#p841293
Thanks for that link Animal, the post by Buck Rogers is the bible to read for anyone considering transporter work.
Well done buck good luck for next month…
Some on has to do it but I wouldn’t fancy it…too much ball ache.
Much easier trunking trailers up and down and listening to the radio…
iangam:
global:
What is there to know about car transporters to be safe.
I would appreciate any advice offered especially those who have had first hand experience.
global.A lot, but you would be trained, they drive like a ■■■■, expect to crap ones self at 45mph until you get used to the sway, If you try to hold the steering straight you have about 200yards before the swaying starts. Honestly you could not be safe with just a few bits of advice on here.
Another +1 for the comment
Way too much to try and tell someone and most of it you have to see and/or experience for it to make any sense, every driver sets straps up differently, even wagons with the same bodies have quirks that make loading each one a tiny bit different and that’s without considering how many types of bodywork might be fitted and the thousands of load combinations you might face,
just some of the things a good company should be training for are
vehicle inspection/documentation
safe loading/unloading
load strapping points on truck and cars/vans and different strapping methods, (eg wheel strapping)
trimming the load down to give lowest height but keeping turning clearances
measuring the load height
daveymk:
wildfire:
make sure you have put the handbrake on before you get out of the car you just loaded at the top of the ramp, they don’t half go a long way when you don’ti will get my coat too
They don’t go that far …
I bet that happens far more frequently than you think!! 
obsessivecompulsive2:
daveymk:
wildfire:
make sure you have put the handbrake on before you get out of the car you just loaded at the top of the ramp, they don’t half go a long way when you don’ti will get my coat too
They don’t go that far …
I bet that happens far more frequently than you think!!
Yup, and it’s a real ■■■■ to try and catch the car then get the door open, jump in and grab a bootful/handful of brake before it all goes pear shaped…as I once witnessed in a certain car plant with some very big VERY solid poles supporting floodlights at 5am one cold and frosty morning.
iangam:
global:
What is there to know about car transporters to be safe.
I would appreciate any advice offered especially those who have had first hand experience.
global.A lot, but you would be trained, they drive like a ■■■■, expect to crap ones self at 45mph until you get used to the sway, If you try to hold the steering straight you have about 200yards before the swaying starts. Honestly you could not be safe with just a few bits of advice on here.
Is it really that bad? I recently towed two cars on a 23ft trailer behind my Disco and it was scary, tail wagging the dog the whole time over 50mph, did wonder whether it would feel the same scaled up to a freighted W+D transporter when you’ve only three on the unit and the rest on the back.
Ian G:
iangam:
global:
What is there to know about car transporters to be safe.
I would appreciate any advice offered especially those who have had first hand experience.
global.A lot, but you would be trained, they drive like a ■■■■, expect to crap ones self at 45mph until you get used to the sway, If you try to hold the steering straight you have about 200yards before the swaying starts. Honestly you could not be safe with just a few bits of advice on here.
Is it really that bad? I recently towed two cars on a 23ft trailer behind my Disco and it was scary, tail wagging the dog the whole time over 50mph, did wonder whether it would feel the same scaled up to a freighted W+D transporter when you’ve only three on the unit and the rest on the back.
It can be that bad, weight distribution plays a huge part, when you get a load with large heavy 4x4’s some of which will only go on the rear of the trailer. If you have three on the unit its not too bad, if you have four it starts to sway with alarming ease. Anyone reading this who have done it will laugh but you would not sit down for the first two weeks of driving one. I have 20 years under my belt on transporters but when I moved onto the current style of short unit long drag I spent the first week at 45-50 shouting “oh ■■■■”. Once you used to it you think nothing of it at all.