trubster:
I don’t think any of the LST’s have locking rear steers - used to ■■■■ me off going backwards but you soon adjust.
Ours do, like I said it will automatically lock if you start reversing from a straight line, or it can be manually locked off, there are three buttons by the legs, trailer-brake, shunt, and rear axle. Our shunters have to lock it off manually which means we usually have to unlock it when we pick them up.
daffyd:
although I bet they’ll still run at below full capacity a lot of the time!
A lot of the time ?! All the time, don’t recall ever pulling a 28 pallet trailer with 28 pallets on.
Ours are full capacity, not palletised but loaded from the floor practically to the roof.
trubster:
I don’t think any of the LST’s have locking rear steers - used to ■■■■ me off going backwards but you soon adjust.
Ours do, like I said it will automatically lock if you start reversing from a straight line, or it can be manually locked off, there are three buttons by the legs, trailer-brake, shunt, and rear axle. Our shunters have to lock it off manually which means we usually have to unlock it when we pick them up.
daffyd:
although I bet they’ll still run at below full capacity a lot of the time!
A lot of the time ?! All the time, don’t recall ever pulling a 28 pallet trailer with 28 pallets on.
Ours are full capacity, not palletised but loaded from the floor practically to the roof.
Sound like the floating axles we used to have on skelly’s years ago.
They were a pain in the arse to reverse, especially if it was a tight yard, because even if you pulled the plunger to lock the rear axle, it couldn’t lock until it had gone straight.
Great going forwards though.
I prefer the ‘active rear steers’ like the Tesco urban trailers and, as far as I knew, all the long trailers, where it’s done from the 5th wheel / king pin.
Not really related to the thread as that’s not transport jobs being lost, but no doubt those workers are being replaced with some sort of bloody robot arm or machine!