think pretty much everythings been covered.
i always carry a couple of bungees/spiders for the back doors. sometimes the rope, or little straps on the boxes have been broken, so can come in handy having bungees, too rap around, too secure doors, when backing on tight loading bays, especially if its windy.
the best bit of advice which has been forgotten ■■?
" Stand well back when you open the doors. " was mentioned in the first reply but its still good abvice.
Mike-C Saturday’s its Cognac. 
Rob K:
Lucy:
Ditto running with your empty 20ft still fixed in tip position back to the docks. Not stable, and won’t do the trailer any good at all, never mind your underpants!Please provide evidence to back up that claim. Personally I think you’re talking [zb]. (I’m referring to running with tri-axle slider in the closed up position with axle 1 raised).
It’s back to the lightweight nature of modern sliders and chassis twist, I’m afraid. They simply haven’t got the reinforcement around the neck to take it for any length of time, plus if you crawl underneath and have a look you’ll see that there’s NO extra reinforcement to the rails at this locking position.
Bear in mind I’m only going on what’s been discovered over the last few years with a variety of sliders, increasingly flimsy, that’ve passed through our hands where I currently work. But at the end of the day, if someone’s done something and it’s been found and proven to have caused damage, we stop doing it. There’s so little effort and hassle involved in doing it right that there isn’t really a good reason for taking the risk and doing it wrong, is there?
All the sliders at our place which have been cared for in this way slide without any problems, by the way. Unlike many others which you see being dragged down the road and then struggled with when it’s time to tip.
Ps. To those that posted in objection to Rob, I have no problem at all with his challenge. At the end of the day, part of getting knowledge and experience is being prepared to learn from others, so all further info is genuinely gratefully recieved. I’ve been doing box work for a long time now and in many forms, but that doesn’t by any means make me an expert - there are guys I work with who quite literally have 20 years on me, all of it on box work, and we still share what we discover, which is how we all found out about the chassis-twisting issue and it’s cause.
thecoder0:
Your mission is you have a rookie container driver …what advice would you give
Sorry Dave, although i do them i know nowt about them !! I just bumble around the country with one and not a clue what i’m doing, i get told off everywhere i go !! 
I think you’ve had some sound advice here though
Nice to see “RobK” is back on form, shame his sparring partner “Coffeholic” is missing though 
On the issue about running in the “Tipped” position I was told by an O/D last week that a) Vosa don,t like it and b) neither do the insurance companies if you have an accident as it is an excuse for them to say “We Ain,t Paying you for damage in the Accident” who do we believe 
Personally I don,t run in the tipped slots except when shunting round the yard or when going on to bays or ramps etc. as a couple of times I have had the trailer swing out in this position so for the sake of a couple of minutes I always stretch it back to travelling 20ft slots.
We had one trailer last year that (a Montracon) that did exactly what has been said and the swan neck got bent slightly upwards and when the driver pulled the pin to uncouple and pulled out the swan neck shot up in the air about 4 feet when it cleared the 5th wheel and had to go back for strengthening and repairs.
