What do you check on your walk round?

the good thing about having the same truck and trailer everyday with no one else driving it when you get out means the daily check goes…

flask…check
sarnies…check
phone…check
wallet…check

i,m good to go :wink:

Pet hate of mine is the operatives who don’t check the engine oil first thing, they simply open the door key in start up, full time operatives every bit as bad as the agency.

ThrustMaster:

Tipper Tom:

ThrustMaster:
Don’y think anybody has mentioned the air-bags on the trailer, height meter is correct also seal number for trailer & check the trailer roof for holes, if trailer is empty.

I don’t ever check my trailer. Mainly cos I drive a rigid. Never check the heights meter cos j dknt have one

Sweeping generalisation anyone

So you’re one of these pretend truckers then and as for not having a height meter…more fool you.

Truck doesn’t need a height meter. Height doesn’t change. Don’t need to meter it as it’s a fixed known value. You can keep on that your lorry is bigger than mine fella but as your mrs tells you. Size doesn’t matter. It’s not the size of the nail it’s the hammer you knock it in with

I got asked on an MPQC time wasting exercise (skills card training) if I knew what height my 6w was with the tipper up. “No” I replied. When told “you should do” my response of " don’t drive around with it raised" resulted in a change of subject.

3300John:
hiya if it starts go…someone will let you know sooner or later…one time in 1979 i jump in and away
i go, i saw sparks behind, i stoped and looked…little [zb] kids had fastened a load of scrap bike frames
a wheel barrow and a old bed on the back bar with a rope, cut rope and away.good job i did’nt walk
round i’d have tripped over the crap in the dark.
John

This, all this messing around, Can’t check oil computer never works defected it the day I got it six years ago so, covered my backside there, basically check the water is hot before I pour it in my cup, and my milk is cold before I pour it on my cocofrostiewetapops.

Rhythm Thief:
That’s why I write down the trailer MOT expiry date on the defect sheet, even though there’s no place for it officially. It shows that you haven’t just ticked the boxes if you do get pulled over. Or at least, that you’ve looked at the MOT disc.

Your kidding, aren’t you, where the hell do they find drivers nowadays. The mot is nothing to do with the driver, it has been done in court cases in the past, are we all supposed to video our daily checks now for proof.

Most important thing is to make sure the load and paperwork correspond with the trailer, and that the doors are closed :stuck_out_tongue:

Depends what walk round checks we’re talking about. I check my oil and water on a Monday and a Wednesday morning, check tyres constantly through the day. When picking up a trailer I check all the lights, mud flaps, tyres and nuts, mot disc, curtains, doors, load security and trailer height. If you mean those mickey mouse ones in the morning, I check the kettle’s on, then check my railings are brushed, bag’s been drained, brew has been poured then get going :wink:

Juddian:
Pet hate of mine is the operatives who don’t check the engine oil first thing, they simply open the door key in start up, full time operatives every bit as bad as the agency.

but are these just operatives or professional operatives :smiley:
we are not operatives, we are not truckers, we are ■■■■■■■ wagon drivers

Dafman:

Rhythm Thief:
That’s why I write down the trailer MOT expiry date on the defect sheet, even though there’s no place for it officially. It shows that you haven’t just ticked the boxes if you do get pulled over. Or at least, that you’ve looked at the MOT disc.

Your kidding, aren’t you, where the hell do they find drivers nowadays. The mot is nothing to do with the driver, it has been done in court cases in the past, are we all supposed to video our daily checks now for proof.

I think this is the most hilarious aspect of this forum. :laughing: Every time someone posts anything, someone else takes issue with it and up goes the cry “where are they finding drivers nowadays?” Well, I don’t know where they’re finding them now, and I don’t know where they found most of them fifteen years ago when I started driving trucks. All I know is I like to know that the trailer has an MOT, because it’s not always a given with some operators and I’m fairly sure that if VOSA caught me driving a trailer without one, I’d be in for a bollocking, or at the very least, a long wait while it was all sorted out. Having checked it, it seems to me to make sense to write it down. Why this gets up your nose I’m at a loss to imagine.

Rhythm Thief:

martinviking:
1st thing I check for is Damage that Mysteriously Appears overnight after the Trunky Monkeys have been out playing ! (& very rarely report it)

That works the other way round, too … I’m forever finding damage that the day bloke has done but hasn’t reported. :grimacing:

Fair enough, but I drive M51/Jennifer 90% of the time & look after her as much as I can, the only thing that I have damaged so far is a 2 pence piece size of paint with the Jet Wash (I try to was her at least once a week) & it was reported. (I couldn’t get away without reporting any damage, because of the Tears in my Eyes as I hand in my paper work, lol)

When I got back off holiday in July ‘Some One’ had caught the front bottom drivers panel which had to be replaced, no one knew or cared who’d done it, just pee’s me off, when I try to keep her looking nice & other Knobs couldn’t care less !!

If I drive other wagons, I leave them as I found them, if I damage them or a fault occurs, I report it ! Simples !
(That’s how it works, doesn’t it ? Lol !)

That is annoying. I don’t particularly care what the outside of the thing looks like, but I report any damage I do and (obviously) I try not to damage it. It really winds me up if the day bloke leaves his rubbish in the cab, though: I’m scrupulous about keeping the inside of the cab clean and it annoys me when others don’t bother!

I check my wife is in work and the house is empty so that I can get her sister back to mine and throw one up her backdoor

Rhythm Thief:

Dafman:

Rhythm Thief:
That’s why I write down the trailer MOT expiry date on the defect sheet, even though there’s no place for it officially. It shows that you haven’t just ticked the boxes if you do get pulled over. Or at least, that you’ve looked at the MOT disc.

Your kidding, aren’t you, where the hell do they find drivers nowadays. The mot is nothing to do with the driver, it has been done in court cases in the past, are we all supposed to video our daily checks now for proof.

Never said it got up my nose, I have been issued with the Vosa guide to daily checks and it doesn’t mention Tax or Mot,
I think this is the most hilarious aspect of this forum. :laughing: Every time someone posts anything, someone else takes issue with it and up goes the cry “where are they finding drivers nowadays?” Well, I don’t know where they’re finding them now, and I don’t know where they found most of them fifteen years ago when I started driving trucks. All I know is I like to know that the trailer has an MOT, because it’s not always a given with some operators and I’m fairly sure that if VOSA caught me driving a trailer without one, I’d be in for a bollocking, or at the very least, a long wait while it was all sorted out. Having checked it, it seems to me to make sense to write it down. Why this gets up your nose I’m at a loss to imagine.

I never said it did but on the Vosa checksheet it does not mention tax or mot. And there is a reason for that

arn1e:

Truckbling:
Is that all you check then? did you forget the important things like oil, water, windscreen, wipers et al?

[zb] me, of all the boring topics to start you start one about bloody vehicle checks. Everybody knows or should know what they need to check so this is just making conversation for the sake of it really. Next you’ll be asking what your routine is for getting out of bed! If you’ve nothing interesting to say then say nothing and save the world from boring posts on vehicle checks.

Spoken like a true door handle! Obviously someone born driving a truck out of their mother’s glory hole! The whole point of this site is to help others out… to quote you further Truckbling:

Truckbling:
If you’ve nothing interesting to say then say nothing .

Another one with nothing constructive to say so he tries to fit in and be popular by posting ■■■■■■ Top marks for being a knob that man.

if sky is above then good to go

check all the regular stuff except on friday when i check the most important thing even before getting out of bed
that my wage is in the bank and its right if its not then i have to make a phone call before walking around anything :sunglasses:

only thing that needs checking is that the night heater works and theres some fuel in the tank. the last driver to have it will have done his checks so theres no need for me to do them again. :laughing:

Anybody check the ladder/steps on the back of a trailer ? We have the spare Bessie leads so we need to check they’re there before setting off in the morning, anybody else have these ?

At risk of sounding daft, what are Bessie Leads.