Wheel Nut:
Harry Monk:
A Comedy of Errors. The driver who removed the VOR board- why?I reckon the fitter is in the bottom of the pit crying or sniffing easy start and wimpering
If I’d VOR’d a trailer I wouldn’t have been arsed taking a coupling off, I’d just lob the VOR boad on the Suzie couplings & tell the right person, if some ‘dead head’ wants to take it upon himself to ignor the obvious, on his head be it!!
Ross.
PS, thank the Lord for numptees 
Even in the absence of an available VOR board, all you need is a bit of paper or card, write VOR on it, the reason & if you want to be helpful, your mobile number, tuck under the abs socket flap or roll it up & shove it part way into the male coupling.
Why don’t companies use these? Can’t be that expensive:
no wonder people say there’s no money in the game.
who the [zb] calls out a fitter to stick a suzie coupling on? 
Original fitter did the right thing removing red coupling, the trouble with mobile VOR boards is that so many of our colleagues are bone idle and if they have to defect and VOR a trailer, will simply nick the board from the nearest trailer.
Best practice is to have designated VOR parking bays and mighty bollickings for non VOR’s being put there, and to put a lock on the red coupling with copy of defect affixed to key on the board.
In our depot we have a dry wipe board where we get our paperwork and keys, any VOR’s or other important things are written boldy, second nature to scan through the half a dozen items whilst getting your stuff together.
Harry Monk:
A Comedy of Errors. The driver who removed the VOR board- why?The office staff who allocated a VOR trailer for work- why?
Isn’t it more like:
Office: “Shunter - Stick an empty trailer on bay 12 will you…”
Shunter: “Ok, back in five.”
Shunter: “Trailer 6969000 on bay 12. ”
At this point, the office apparently didn’t flag up that a shunter has just whipped off a VOR board, and stuck the trailer on a bay using the blue button, since the red airline connection is missing. Didn’t bother to look underneath to establish that half the brake workings are missing too!
So I’d blame
(1) the shunter for being a totally idiotic ■■■■■■ (■■■) for doing something as obviously out-of-order akin to driving a trailer off with a wheel missing. 
then
(2) The office for not realising that 6969000 is seriously VOR’ed, and picking it up the moment the notification went in on the walkie-talkie that it’s just been put on bay 12… What you don’t get told about, the heart don’t grieve over though, so there’s some defence here.
Remedy: Shunters should do a quick 1 minute walk around check on all trailers they pick up from the park, and stick on a bay. This would pick up obviously missing bits, flat tyres, nails in tyres, previous ■■■■ left number plate on, fresh damage, and of course anything obviously wrong with the freezer unit - leaking oil, belching too much smoke etc etc.
The office can only act on data given them, and if the input is wrong, then they are going to get it wrong too, and allocate out the trailer for someone else who’s walkaround checks probably won’t involve checking the brake assembly outright! Can’t really hold that against either the office or the next driver can we?
shuttlespanker:
Seems odd to me, a fitter making more work for himselfIf a fitter had stripped the brakes down, he would have to remove the wheels, why would he put them back on if he had to take them off again and the trailer was VOR’d as you said?
If the trailer was VOR’d, surely the fitter would have left the wheels off
Just a thought but if the trailer was on disc brakes maybe they have just removed old pads and was waiting for new ones. And hadn’t needed to remove wheels
gallows_man:
shuttlespanker:
Seems odd to me, a fitter making more work for himselfIf a fitter had stripped the brakes down, he would have to remove the wheels, why would he put them back on if he had to take them off again and the trailer was VOR’d as you said?
If the trailer was VOR’d, surely the fitter would have left the wheels off
Just a thought but if the trailer was on disc brakes maybe they have just removed old pads and was waiting for new ones. And hadn’t needed to remove wheels
I was thinking that, or was he just waiting for some new airpots. Do people still keep spare diaphragms on stock?
Surly there is no excuse for a shunter removing a VOR board- end of 
walk round check or no walk round check or moving a trailer with no red line connector for that matter
I’ve had to call fitters out on two occasions to replace brake chambers whilst on the road. Both times work carried out with wheels on ground.
Winseer:
Harry Monk:
A Comedy of Errors. The driver who removed the VOR board- why?The office staff who allocated a VOR trailer for work- why?
Isn’t it more like:
Office: “Shunter - Stick an empty trailer on bay 12 will you…”
Shunter: “Ok, back in five.”
Shunter: “Trailer 6969000 on bay 12. ”At this point, the office apparently didn’t flag up that a shunter has just whipped off a VOR board, and stuck the trailer on a bay using the blue button, since the red airline connection is missing. Didn’t bother to look underneath to establish that half the brake workings are missing too!
So I’d blame
(1) the shunter for being a totally idiotic ■■■■■■ (■■■) for doing something as obviously out-of-order akin to driving a trailer off with a wheel missing.then
(2) The office for not realising that 6969000 is seriously VOR’ed, and picking it up the moment the notification went in on the walkie-talkie that it’s just been put on bay 12… What you don’t get told about, the heart don’t grieve over though, so there’s some defence here.
Remedy: Shunters should do a quick 1 minute walk around check on all trailers they pick up from the park, and stick on a bay. This would pick up obviously missing bits, flat tyres, nails in tyres, previous ■■■■ left number plate on, fresh damage, and of course anything obviously wrong with the freezer unit - leaking oil, belching too much smoke etc etc.
The office can only act on data given them, and if the input is wrong, then they are going to get it wrong too, and allocate out the trailer for someone else who’s walkaround checks probably won’t involve checking the brake assembly outright! Can’t really hold that against either the office or the next driver can we?
You are forgetting, shunters can do no wrong.
gallows_man:
shuttlespanker:
Seems odd to me, a fitter making more work for himselfIf a fitter had stripped the brakes down, he would have to remove the wheels, why would he put them back on if he had to take them off again and the trailer was VOR’d as you said?
If the trailer was VOR’d, surely the fitter would have left the wheels off
Just a thought but if the trailer was on disc brakes maybe they have just removed old pads and was waiting for new ones. And hadn’t needed to remove wheels
even disc brakes, you need to remove the wheel to change the pads 