A lot of the time when I collect a trailer there’s a slip of paper in the trailer ABS / EBS socket. Nothing written on it or any other info. I’ve still not worked out why.
Can someone enlighten me please?
goshow:
A lot of the time when I collect a trailer there’s a slip of paper in the trailer ABS / EBS socket. Nothing written on it or any other info. I’ve still not worked out why.Can someone enlighten me please?
Maybe it’s code for loaded trailer so the shunter or whoever knows at a glance it’s loaded.
bald bloke:
goshow:
A lot of the time when I collect a trailer there’s a slip of paper in the trailer ABS / EBS socket. Nothing written on it or any other info. I’ve still not worked out why.Can someone enlighten me please?
Maybe it’s code for loaded trailer so the shunter or whoever knows at a glance it’s loaded.
I wondered that but I’ve had it on loaded and unloaded trailers. ■■?
Its industry code for “Do not take this trailer out on the road for any reason”
Suggestion 1. Hide in the shadows near the trailers until whoever it is arrives and starts putting bits of paper under the ABS flap, then very quietly creep up behind them and at the top of your voice shout ‘can you tell me what those are for please?’
Suggestion 2. Take all the bits of paper out of every trailer and bin them, it won’t take long until whoever it is putting them in starts whining about them being taken out.
Suggestion 3. Get a life.
Just simply ask the shunter or office 
Maybe the shunters and drivers there are not only ex SAS, although they don’t like to talk about it 
they are also working for MI5, and this is the way they handover top secret information. It’ll be invisible ink just in case some, normal “civi” driver come along poking their nose in.
Warning from a shunter you touch that piece of paper and suffer the consequence. Its code used to mean empty trailer but we all have different uses for it. I mean look its started a new thread hehe 
Hi goshow. When at iceland I sometimes covered the shunt. We used to use bits of paper usually with the letters MT on stuck in the abs socket just so that we could see from a distance whether it was empty or not. They also rather confusingly used to get left in by some shunters when the trailer was loaded and parked. The difference being paper and fridge on meant loaded or being loaded. Just paper empty. Maybe the shunters who deal with your trailers just use blank paper for the same reason. I did once have a new starter driver take about an hour to couple a loaded trailer up going over it constantly while I was shunting. My curiosity finally got the better of me as I saw him scratching his head and clutching said piece of paper and I went to ask him did he have a problem. He said no matter how much he looked he couldn’t find anything wrong with the trailer. I said great, crack on I need this space. He said what about this MT code ■■? That’s a fault right ? I put him out of his misery of course. But couldn’t help chuckling for a wee while.[emoji1] [emoji1]
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The paper could be a VOR notice, a load manifest, a note saying what’s on the trailer (back haul) & more
peirre:
The paper could be a VOR notice, a load manifest, a note saying what’s on the trailer (back haul) & more
Not likely peirre, to quote the OP…
goshow:
Nothing written on it or any other info.
Oddly enough I left a bit of paper (weighbridge ticket) in the ABS socket at stenaline today however I had written on it
LOADED LIKE ■■■■
TOP + NEARSIDE HEAVY
Then I waited for the shunter who picked it up and warned him to take it easy putting it on the ramp
Quite often pick up trailers at ports which have different coloured papers in the ABS socket - I always presumed it was letting the shunters know which boat / sailing they were to be loaded on.
I haven’t yet worked out the code behind leaving an empty coffee cup on top of the suzie connections.
I work for commercial trailer repair company. We use scrap bits of paper to indicate when the trailer has been checked. S
So we can drive down the trailer park, and see at a glance If they have been done or not.
could be the agency driver walkaround check sheet?
If you are picking up from a port and its come across unocompanied most of the larger firms like ewals , Olof ect have them inspected by fitters on arrival . The fitters normally put a small strip of paper in the flap of the socket to tell each other it’s been done save it being done twice
chester1:
If you are picking up from a port and its come across unocompanied most of the larger firms like ewals , Olof ect have them inspected by fitters on arrival . The fitters normally put a small strip of paper in the flap of the socket to tell each other it’s been done save it being done twice
Don’t think this applies to Lkw Walter, judging by the numbers that have come over recently with paper in sockets and knackered tyres - we had one the other day with 4 bald tyres on it! Quite regularly get one or two, but four has to be a record…
eagerbeaver:
I haven’t yet worked out the code behind leaving an empty coffee cup on top of the suzie connections.
It is a sign that Dipper Dave has chosen you. Be ready to grab some fifth wheel grease to lubricate yourself. He isn’t gentle with newbies.
scaniason:
chester1:
If you are picking up from a port and its come across unocompanied most of the larger firms like ewals , Olof ect have them inspected by fitters on arrival . The fitters normally put a small strip of paper in the flap of the socket to tell each other it’s been done save it being done twiceDon’t think this applies to Lkw Walter, judging by the numbers that have come over recently with paper in sockets and knackered tyres - we had one the other day with 4 bald tyres on it! Quite regularly get one or two, but four has to be a record…
They only check and report . Hardly any of them have any thing repaired in the uk unless they have too .But if the drivers keep taking them they won’t repair them . I’m not sure Walters run any of there own trucks any more so no o licence to worry about any where