chilistrucker:
i have a couple of good mates who do days at the place i do nights. often bump into them as i’m starting my night shift and they’ll tell me they have hooked motor up for me. i say thanks. once i’ve got settled in truck, and they’ve gone home, i still have to walk round and check it for myself, can’t help myself, but never hurts just to have 1 final check.
found the odd dog clip now and then not clipped in place.
Its a good plan and its exactly what i would do , people only try to help and thats good but you never know do you …
cieranc:
Top and bottom of it, don’t use the shunt button. Usually the lads who use the shunt button in the yard are the same lads who bend the landing legs “cos the Terberg drivers don’t wind the legs up”.
Yeah, but the Terbergs can lift the trailer a lot higher than a unit can.
Been out to a few trailers with bent landing legs, where drivers are trying to shunt them like a Terberg does.
Just do the job properly. Fit a suzie, wind the legs up.
Quite a few places put the trailers in so tight there’s no room to get in to the winding handle so dragging out with the unit suspension raised is a must, this then inevitably encourages trundling round a potholed yard with them like that.
Change of mind after reading more on here. Going to use the Red Airline and one of the Electrics. Paid by the Hour and never really in a rush, I’d rather stick to the way I know. BTW, both trailers full and parking is very tight.
Thanks Guys