Why is it I am forever picking up curtainsiders with the curtain…
buckled up with the curtain not properly taut.
left with straps loose.
overhanging the marker light at the front because it’s not been wound back / wound back too much.
d) not tucked in properly at the top so water can get in.
And don’t get me started on the knobs who stow all the roof straps in the headboard in a tangled mess, so you end up spending forever on a customers site sorting them all out
Anyone else find this annoying? Granted, i’m a bit of a neat freak and like them looking spot on with straps tucked in etc. but the lack of pride so many guys have in the job these days is terrible. I think you can tell a lot by how neatly a drivers done up their curtains.
I agree. I think tucking the buckles in tidy must hark back to roping and sheeting days. I (still) don’t like to see anything flapping about in my mirrors.
100% with you all the way bud. We’ve got some cheapie trailers with crappy straps on the buckles, which work themselves loose (awaiting new ones from the supplier) and I even retighten them when I stop.
Just put it down to standards and personal pride. Unfortunately quite a few don’t have any and that also includes looking after someone else’s cab/home.
makes me angry when you have a trailer all week and sort all the issues out then they give you another that’s in crap order and you have to start all over again
scrotumscratcher:
makes me angry when you have a trailer all week and sort all the issues out then they give you another that’s in crap order and you have to start all over again
Yep and then it all starts again. “Bugger it, I’m not going through all that again, so if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em” attitude.
A Jobsworth self appointed senior driver used to lecture me and a couple of others about clipping the loose part into the buckle. Fair enough if he wanted to do it but I really hadn’t the interest they weren’t flapping around enough to cause a safety issue and the day was long and boring enough without ■■■■■■■ around making the straps look pretty.
Same jobsworth used to cry at transport meetings about me and a couple of others not sorting empty pallets into specific piles like plastics, cheps etc.
Note this was all on rigids not shared trailers where the trucks had regular drivers, so why the state of my truck was a concern to him I don’t know.
Easy !!! when I worked for Simpson Bros they had a lot of stand trls at different places so the straps had to be shortened and hung at the back doors if not the customer would moan they knew who dropped what so it was a warning as was drivers leaving straps thrown all over the trl floor, we used to get a £20 bonus everyweek simple you got your bonus stopped same with dropping trls with defects and not reporting them ,when it hits you in the pocket you learn very very rarely you would pick a trl up and the straps were a mess. Peter Simpson was a bit of a control freak but it worked.
BIG AW
As well as the curtain issues , it even annoys me when I go to hook up to a trailer and the winding handle hasn’t been stowed in its bracket !
Poor thing is usually hanging down limply by the leg
I was thinking about ■■■■ poor attention to the curtains last night… Polish day driver is one of the laziest bass turds I’ve ever met/shared a outfit with. Everybody likes tight curtains, looks better on the road, all nicely tightly but his efforts are pathetic! I’ve even wrote on the trailer (in marker pen) where to tighten the curtain at the front before winding it up at the back, before tightening the buckles…still no joy! Gimp ■■■■ tightens the buckles 1st then tries to tighten it up…trailers are 6 month old and the curtains are slowly being stretched top to bottom, to a point where the reflective strip is disappearing under the trailer, as I like to take the final bit of slack and tuck it under the bed before buckling up good & tight…nowt worse than going over the Severn bridge and not being able to see down one side, as it resembles a bloody Zeppelin!
rob22888:
Why is it I am forever picking up curtainsiders with the curtain…
buckled up with the curtain not properly taut.
left with straps loose.
Every time we do a changeover with the Scottish drivers they’re like this. Its not their fault though. Our new trailers are those lightweight ones without posts in and you can set off with them so tight you can play a tune on the curtains but by the time you’ve got to the other end they’ve bounced themselves slack. It seems that got past whoever was assessing them before they bought several hundred.
rob22888:
Why is it I am forever picking up curtainsiders with the curtain…
buckled up with the curtain not properly taut.
left with straps loose.
Every time we do a changeover with the Scottish drivers they’re like this. Its not their fault though. Our new trailers are those lightweight ones without posts in and you can set off with them so tight you can play a tune on the curtains but by the time you’ve got to the other end they’ve bounced themselves slack. It seems that got past whoever was assessing them before they bought several hundred.
Same with our pillarless trailers, you have to fasten them twice - front to back then front to back again. As you can imagine, most can’t be arsed.
Me too, i always like to be tidy, tighten both curtains, and then roll up the excess strap and tuck it under, but i was on long runs to europe, and always corded the trailer when re loading, it took more time but i got self satisfaction, and less hassle in Caen.
Mikey D:
As well as the curtain issues , it even annoys me when I go to hook up to a trailer and the winding handle hasn’t been stowed in its bracket !
You see those morons going down the road with the ratchet hanging out.
spent over 30 min sorting some other drivers mess out ref straps,all wrapped around each other and when untangled I found at least 3 damaged or cut off,unbelievable and bloody annoying,also hate it when drivers do exterior straps up tight,soon as you release your fingers nearly go with it
