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A new award-winning device designed to prevent lorry accidents has been launched after its inventor saw a runaway trailer destroy a truckers’ café.
Correct me if I’m wrong but surely following the correct DSA procedure in the first place would eradicate these incidents?
i.e. Apply trailer brake, lift landing legs, connect air lines.
Your way is why accidents happen.
LR18-8:
Correct me if I’m wrong but surely following the correct DSA procedure in the first place would irradiate these incidents?i.e. Apply trailer brake, lift landing legs, connect air lines.
Am I reading this correctly ? Please don’t attempt to split couple in that order
Tonge said: “I remain very passionate about the subject of coupling accidents’’
So am I 'cos a few years ago I had one of those …
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The ■■■■■ took me to the CSA and it cost me 25 quid a week 
LR18-8:
Correct me if I’m wrong but surely following the correct DSA procedure in the first place would irradiate these incidents?i.e. Apply trailer brake, lift landing legs, connect air lines.
If I’m reading this correctly, exposing the combination to Plutonium helps?
raymundo:
Tonge said: “I remain very passionate about the subject of coupling accidents’’So am I 'cos a few years ago I had one of those …
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The ■■■■■ took me to the CSA and it cost me 25 quid a week
I’d willingly pay 4 different women to have my babies @ 25 quid per week a pop… Only if yummy mummy 1-4 are on a retainer contract with yours truly of course! 
£100 a week for all the ■■■ you can eat… Just think! 
I’ve just invented a device to stop trailers running away … a bloody big brick between the trailer wheels, and once coupled safely chuck it in the back for next time 
mastesallan:
Am I reading this correctly ? Please don’t attempt to split couple in that order
lol, No one said anything about split coupling.
hook:
Your way is why accidents happen.
How so Hook?
BLANK
Brake
Legs
Airlines
Number plate
Kingpin & clip
Winseer:
If I’m reading this correctly, exposing the combination to Plutonium helps?
lol forgive the brain ■■■■. I meant eradicate
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Anything that improves safety at work is Welcome.
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LR18-8 you should start from back of trailer and work forward when uncoupling and vice verser you said wind legs up then connect susies which is wrong way round.
This has to be a good idea if it works as it’s supposed to.
hook:
LR18-8 you should start from back of trailer and work forward when uncoupling and vice verser you said wind legs up then connect susies which is wrong way round.
You have just contradicted your self though, you say work from the rear towards the front. That’s exactly what I said in my first post.
For the sake of the discussion we’ve already assumed the unit is under the trailer and pulled on the pin.
Then go to the rear and apply the trailer brake. Then move forwards to the middle of the trailer and wind up the legs, then move to the front and connect the air/electrics
I don’t see how you can claim this is the wrong way of working. That’s the standard of every training/teaching procedure.
LR18-8:
mastesallan:
Am I reading this correctly ? Please don’t attempt to split couple in that order
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Brake
Legs
Airlines
Number plate
Kingpin & clip
Nice nemonic but surely that’s for dropping the trailer dude 
. Picking one up maybe roughly opposite order! (or maybe pin & clip, airlines, plate and lights, legs, brake, oh and double check unit handbrake is on before you leave cab!). Split coupling yep you’d check the trailer brake first before you put suzies on then get right under. Hope I dont look like im teaching my grandma to ■■■■ eggs - you probably do it instictively and it’s hard to put it in order in writing, but it seems there’s a lot of new guys reading these things on here and Id hate for them to get this wrong!
LR18-8:
hook:
LR18-8 you should start from back of trailer and work forward when uncoupling and vice verser you said wind legs up then connect susies which is wrong way round.For the sake of the discussion we’ve already assumed the unit is under the trailer and pulled on the pin.
Then go to the rear and apply the trailer brake. Then move forwards to the middle of the trailer and wind up the legs, then move to the front and connect the air/electrics
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Come on man, why would the pin be pulled before you do all that?
tachograph:
This has to be a good idea if it works as it’s supposed to.
Especially going by this thread 
ajt:
tachograph:
This has to be a good idea if it works as it’s supposed to.Especially going by this thread
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In my training for my test and at work on reefers I do this…
Reverse to trailer
Check trailer isn’t 3 miles in the air
Reverse under trailer but do not connect with king pin
Raise the unit with the air suspension
Check parking brake on trailer
Connect suzies
Get back in cab and reverse into king pin doing 2x tug test
Put lights and hazards on
Get out of cab and do walk round check anti clockwise while doing this I wind legs up and check for any defects and check all lights/markers are working, press in trailer park brake, put number plate on trailer come round to o/s checking for defects, put dog clip on and check king pin and 5th wheel are correct get back in cab level the unit off and away we go
lr18-8 i think you,re getting confused you seem to be hooking trailer up because you say wind legs up so you should start from front after trailer brake put on ie airlines then wind legs up.
I said start from rear work forward when dropping ie trailer brake then legs down,airlines, pin.
FarnboroughBoy11:
Come on man, why would the pin be pulled before you do all that?
I was referring to the tug test mate