lesson learned last night - when sudden gust of wind decides to lift your freshly opened curtains, don’t hang on.
and run the other way cos what goes up, must come down!
1 strained shoulder that almost popped out of socket, 1 lighlty sprained elbow and 1 numb but painful (nice combo!) hand later, I’ve learned my lesson!
nearly left the ground by hanging on, let go when I felt me arm coming out of joint (or about to) and then covered my head for the pole’s return journey, when the elbow got the thwack.
seems I’m on the steep part of the learning curve still -
WHAT, does one say come fly with me come fly sidecurtain airlines
up into the sky, no sorry joking aside I hope that you quickly get over this
little misshape and will not try to catch the curtain again when the
wind is so strong,.
ha ha el gordo you are learning some lessons this week haha keep em coming… when doing your curtains if its windy or not try only to open oneside at a time by all means let the straps of but keep one side closed till you need to open it cos once the wind gets up and catchs them its a bugger to get them back down. and when youve got them pulled back still put some of the ratchet straps on to hold it.
Best to get as much out the way as soon as possible and your doing that!
At christmas time a newbie at our place asked me to run through coupling up with him so I did and ran through the cab controls ect ect. the chap has been doing really well and his reversing is coming on a treat but after parking on my bay today and while I was on the phone to security I watched him reverse then jump out the cab and pull the pin When I mentioned it he said “I uncouple just like I couple up don’t I?”
I’m lucky I didn’t get him killed!
Note to self if you teach someone to couple up then REMEMBER to point out that you do it all in reverse when you drop the trailer.
lesson learned last night - when sudden gust of wind decides to lift your freshly opened curtains, don’t hang on.
and run the other way cos what goes up, must come down!
1 strained shoulder that almost popped out of socket, 1 lighlty sprained elbow and 1 numb but painful (nice combo!) hand later, I’ve learned my lesson!
nearly left the ground by hanging on, let go when I felt me arm coming out of joint (or about to) and then covered my head for the pole’s return journey, when the elbow got the thwack.
seems I’m on the steep part of the learning curve still -
Ah yes!
If you think getting whacked by the curtain pole is bad, wait until one of the metal buckles that clip under the trailer edge smacks you round your chops! Then you’ll be a true experienced truck driver
Like others have said, even if it’s just breezy, just open one side at a time as it’s a flaming nightmare trying to get them closed again if you open both together. If you do open them both at the same time there is an easy way to get them closed again. What you do is pull each side closed about 5ft at a time, ie. do the n/s 5ft then go round to o/s and pull 5ft, then back round to the n/s and do another 5ft etc - it’s long winded (pardon the pun) but it’s much easier and breaks the force of the wind so that the curtains don’t flap about as much.
Another one to watch out for are the trailer barn doors when it’s windy. NEVER get in the way of those unless you enjoy eating them
imust admit i dropped the trailer on its knees last week but it was the first time i was to busy talking and forgot to wind down the legs but the good news is … it was an empty skelly.
You are not the first and will not be the last that this happens to , as you
will see when those of us all plead guilty to some sort of “” MISTAKE"“”
WHICH we will have made its all part of learning ,and proves that we
are only human beings . Until you get the routine fixed in to your way of
working, and then the amount of times that some thing goes wrong will
drasticly drop from #### to#### amount, so as said before.
DOn,t Worry be Happy, all ways look on the brightside of life !!
i was in felixstowe loading paper when old timer dropped a trailer with 22 ton of paper on its knees and i did my good samaratin bit and wound it up on slow gear for him i must admit i did relise how hard it would be and didnt feel like a bloody samaratin afterwards.
DAD; Could you not get the back end of the tractor under the front of
the trailer,and use the air suspension to raise it off the legs and therebye making the job a little lighter, I will write how I come to use
this method my self later on.
brit pete:
DAD; Could you not get the back end of the tractor under the front of
the trailer,and use the air suspension to raise it off the legs and therebye making the job a little lighter, I will write how I come to use
this method my self later on.
hello brit,
no he had wound the legs up us far as they could go so when later when he dropped it it to the hilt i did wind till he could get the unit underneath but i did wonder about him which did annoy me cos he didnt even think to lower the suspension on the unit till i told him
Some people never learn, a few years back I went into a yard to collect a unit for servicing & as was normal there I had to do a trailer change for them, but after moaning & telling them it would only involve me taking the unit I wanted, they offered to help.
The trailer was parked on a steep slope & the idiot who was helping went to pull the pin before the trailer brake had been applied, when I used a few choice words & pointed out how zb’ing stupid he was, he told me everyone did it, it was no problem.
This was a company that had grown out of a company where a driver was killed after he forgot to apply the tractor unit brakes as he coupled, the H & S investigation included a look at company practises & the managers, (the owners of this new company) did not come out of it looking too good.
Yet here we were a few years later, a different name same people, same bad H & S practise.
Probably exsplains why they are constantly advertising for drivers.
