I was out with a driving assessor, i said you dont mind if i take my susies out here as its a potential susie buster, he looked at me like id just killed his children. ‘‘Put in a form put in a form’’ he says oh then the magic fairies will deliver it then?? 
What happens when you drive with low pressure there was a thread on here about it, something to do with warping your trailer brakes or summit.
kvin:
Off my own topic it amazes me how even new stores/merchants etc have no loading areas or access for trucks but get all their deliveries in a busy car park…it’s not just that places weren’t designed for modern trucks, the new places we have to go aren’t being designed for trucks either.
welcome to the world of transport mate.
MAN’s should come with a pair of old fashioned bellows, cause they would pump up the air pressure a lot quicker than the pathetic single stage compressor they fit. 
good effort on a hard days work.
It’s worth mentioning that most General Hauliers would prefer it if you didn’t do any ‘U’ turns at all, especially just to manouver in a yard or park up.
Stuff like the price of tyres and wear and tear means little to the junior management of the likes of Tesco and Asda (that’s why their yards are full of crap just like you observed).
Unfortunatly, those same costs are eye wateringly expensive to a firm like the one I work for.
It’s very disheartening to see perfectly good trailers come back thick with comedy damage just because the guy at the front couldn’t be bothered to think about what he was doing.
After all, it’s not the boss who really pays for the repairs, it’s us when the pay rise is crap or doesn’t come at all.
Just remember, if you can drive out you can probably reverse in…
Good luck,
W
urban859:
waynedl:
As others have said, sod anyone waiting, if your truck needs air, it stays put, there may have been a serious fault and then you’d have been stranded on the dual carriageway waiting for recovery and got a damned site more hassle than 1 - supposedly professional- driver could give you.
Some trailer brakes automatically pop when you drop the red airline, but will still have a shunt button, the shunt button is nothing to do with the park brake button urban859.
If possible in future - obviously not if you’re going to end up blocking a main road or amulance route or anything - try and drop the suzi’s off and use the shunt for super tight turns, but you shouldn’t have to really as has been mentioned.
In fact you are wrong some of our deckers at currys do not all have shunt buttons and being a shunter we have to use the red line
I never said all trailers had a shunt button, I said that some trailer brakes automatically come on when you drop the red airline but will still have a shunt button. SOME. I never said all trailers had a shunt button. Just because a trailer park brake comes on automatically on release of the red airline (like most of Stobarts trailers) doesn’t mean they don’t have a shunt button and this would work as normal.