Anybody know any website where i can buy ali boards for a euroliner pls…?
archieboy:
Anybody know any website where i can buy ali boards for a euroliner pls…?
Have you tried the company that made your trailer?
Wheel Nut:
Simon:
Wheel Nut:
Digi tachs have been used on AETR for a while. I did post the actual regulations recently but Toby has hijacked another thread about TiltsThere’s another thread about tilts
Isn’t one enoughThere is, but Jessicas Dad asked a specific question about them.
And you now go on taultliners you still building tilts from 1973 in the 80s the tilts we rebuilt were from the 70s no one said it was rocket science but a friend of mine almost lost his ear when the cant rail fell down. That’s a 40ft lump of steel. Really aetr well I don’t know what that is but I did have my own blue book, yes by that time like green shield stamps
DEFINITION OF T.I.L.T… TOTALLY INFURIATING LOUSEY TRAILER…best banned ,buried and forgotten,or left for the Taliban drivers…greif beyond belief from start to finish. do a youtube,and video yourself clambering over it,then at least you have evidence when you fall, get chibbed with the boards,or knakker your bollox trying to lift the sheet…plus 1 golden rule when you lift one in sunny northern Ireland, there will be about 50 gallons of water most likely lying in the belly of the roof…don’t be harsh braking with your sunroof open… I watched it happen to one of barbours big rig truckies in 1980,windows open,sunroof open,he stopped dead at the security gates,he stopped,the unit stopped,the trailer stopped,but the water on the roof didn’t…instant in cab swimming pool…
You may get help to strip the tilt to load it.
But watch them run away at home time when you are loaded and need to rebuild the tilt.
No need to join a gym with a tilt.
Climbing on the roof nowadays in the UK would be banned with elf n safety.
There’s plenty of sound advice on this thread! If you are interested in further reading, there is an entertaining discourse on the merits and demerits of tilts on Middle-East work on pages 222-225 of the ‘Astran / Middle East drivers’ thread (it’s in the Old Timers Forum). Robert
Hi I’ve read most this thread and takes me back to the day , strip outs just a matter of luck but a tilt trailer I reckon is one of the best trailers out in the day, carry anything ! I’ve been out the industry for years now and don’t very often see tilts on the road when you do see em there on the back of a foreigner, Strip out a part or strip out the lot, but one little bit of advise that I’ve not seen on here is when your stripping out your tilts and clummering and swinging around on em like monkeys, remove all your rings off your fingers!! Two mates of mine now wear thier wedding rings on a chain round their necks cos swinging down from tilt their rings got caught and stripped their fingers to the bone !!! Amputation but of course !!
Just a little tip !
Regards Jimski
The Turkish use tilts when you see them around the UK now.
Bulgarians seem to seem to use them.
I remember the weight of the rain water and ice on top of tilts.
Amazing how crews run off once they have tipped you.
They knew it took hours to rebuild a tilt.
Once done,the TIR cord would not go through the eyelets,so drive for half an hour for the sheet to resettle again.
There are 2 types of tilt
1… The ones that get used by traction companies, they’re usually rubbish, they’ve been abused, never looked after, and dragged around Europe by every man and his dog with very little reguard. No wonder no one likes them. You collect it early one wet morning, it does’nt have lights, it’s not loaded right, all the weight is in the wrong place. When you get there no one wants to know you and you’re just cheap labour to help unload. You have no connection with the load, how it’s loaded how it got there, or where it’s come from.
When you reload it later on in the day you’re not going to care how it’s done as long as you get it to the docks you will never see it again, and who’s going to tell if there’s another small scratch on it. Even if you complane to the forwarder that there was a problem with it you know they wouldn’t do anything about it untill it’s completely broken or unserviceable
You can’t even pretend you’re an International driver as every one knows you picked it up from the docks this morning with your under powered twin steer.
2… This trailer has been hooked on the back of your unit for 3 years, you have big lockers on the side and everything you nead is in them. You’re carefull with it, like the unit you live in it reflects your pride in the job. If you notice there’s a problem with it you get repaired as soon as you can. You’ve dragged it over mountains in the winter, hot plains in the summer. It’s been on ferries, in tunnels under the sea, in tunnels high in the mountains. You striped it out in the heat of summer in Arabia, the Scottish rain, the Scandanavian winter, and the winds at that howl across the Russian steps. You know exactly how much tread is left on the tyres. You adjust your own brakes. You know exactly how to load it, and every bump and bad camber on every inch of the long road between collection a delivery. You won’t take chances with it cause it’s your neck on the line.
You are an International driver, and you go to places that only some can dream of, and many more have never even heard of.
You look at fridge drivers and know they couldn’t hack the pace, they’re not fit enough.
Jeff…
Jeff…
Nice one Jeff! 100%
Re the comment about the rings, good advise indeed, nearly broke a finger in my younger days when it got caught in a tilt trailer and have NEVER worn a ring since! I find the dirt is the worst thing, most of the ones we do have come over by train and its the black soot from the train brakes that seems to be thing! Took a truck on the “rolling road” from Frieburg-Novara a couple of years back, went on the train clean but the truck and trailer were covered in the black stuff by the time I got to Italy.
Happy days! I dont mind tilts at all, bloody good exercise to strip out and put back together.
There is a very good chance I’m going onto a contract doing ferry trailers and I know this still has quite a few tilts, not euroliners actual tilts. So can anyone offer some good advice on stripping them out.
Take plenty of clothes with you, you’ll get very sweaty and black. Make sure you’ve got a ladder and some rope as well. If it’s windy forget it!
carry plenty of bulbs for the lights and as many different types of rear lenses you can fit in your locker.
jessicas dad:
There is a very good chance I’m going onto a contract doing ferry trailers and I know this still has quite a few tilts, not euroliners actual tilts. So can anyone offer some good advice on stripping them out.
Not pulled a tilt for a while but in these modern times i think you will find a lot of them are now loaded through the back on a loading bay makes life a lot better. If through the side a lot of sites will work from one side with a decent fork lift driver so have a strap ready for pulling pallets across and if you do have to do a full strip it’s good exercise for the truckers tummy: good luck just make sure a foreigner doesn’t steal your job they like tilts
If after a full strip out you can’t get the sheet to fit back properly just fit it over whatever rings you can and then drive down the road for a couple of miles. Pull over and you will find the sheet will nown fit over all the rings properly and you can finish off lacing it up.
To be honest the dreaded old tilts that we all feared have mainly been made into flat trailers for farm use, for the last twenty years they have been quite lighweight and fairly simple to strip. No one will expect you to take the sheet off on your own and as mentioned most places will manage from the back flap or from one side.
You will enjoy it, and you have the best help on your side. H&S
Your biggest problem is losing all your straps or finding decent ones.
I was chatting to a driver of the company and he said all the stuff that’s get loaded through roof goes on euroliners, if you find yourself with a strip out it’s down to the company who’s good it is to provide labour for the strip out ( il believe that when it happens ). I’ve done euroliners before just never a tilt. 
jessicas dad:
I was chatting to a driver of the company and he said all the stuff that’s get loaded through roof goes on euroliners, if you find yourself with a strip out it’s down to the company who’s good it is to provide labour for the strip out ( il believe that when it happens ). I’ve done euroliners before just never a tilt.
You will struggle on your own to strip a roof out, It’s not impossible but most places I have had to do it, we have used an overhead crane to help with the sheet. It is easy when its loaded as you can generally walk along the load, the problem comes when the trailer is empty, especially if it is a step deck 
First, buy yourself some lightweight overalls, you cant get near a tilt sheet without getting black, second get a couple of long lengths of rope, tie the rope through the eyelets, through the rope over the tilt, then pull the sheet over the top, not to bad when you get used to it, if hot do it at night time…
When unlacing the tilt and pulling the sheet off the rings … watch for any “ill fitting” tilt boards falling down inside the sheet … i had a step-frame tilt for a while a few years ago … had a wooden tilt board slide down as i un-hooked the “dance-floor” over the 5th wheel … heard this noise … looked up … the tilt board hit me on the fore-head 
… i’ve still got the scar 
… luckily it wasn’t an aluminium one … i reckon that would have split my head open 
Defo get a boiler suit … i used to strip to my boxer shorts / t shirt … then put it on … in the winter i might have 2 
… but as some-one has said … the days of a full strip out are getting rarer
Keeps you fit though In the “old days” … other drivers used to help each other … but we all know about that topic these days 
Vaseline is handy… put a bit on the rubber sockets as you reassemble the roof frame they can be hard to fit together.
I agree with everyone else though, you would have to be pretty unlucky to get a full roof off job these days.
I think Caparo (now TATA) in Scunthorpe banned Tilts at least ten years ago. Sometimes other people get snotty about dragging the sheet back with their overhead crane too.
Slightly OT, what does the word ‘TILT’ actually mean? Is it the German name for a sheet/cover perhaps?
W