scanny77:
The biggest problem is very basic. No way of turning off the reverse warning. I hate having to reverse in a truck park at night when I have a merc
Every one I have ever fitted has a wire to the rear lights and if it detects they are on the bleeper won’t sound.
As has already been said I used to get moaned at for the tail-lift. Rubber wheels on roll cages sound all well and good but would make them difficult to shift sideways if you need to and also suspect you could run into trouble with them getting stuck or being hard work if the gap between the tail-lift and bed is either big or bent out of shape.
Most of it’s common sense, if i had a chilled/frozen delivery, i used to pull up on a non residential road as close as possible to the delivery point and switch the fridge off before arrival.
Similarly you don’t need to hurl ramps or any fittings onto the ground, most jobs can be done quieter with a bit of forethought, but i’ve worked with idiots that went out of their way to make as much noise…look at tough me in me big lorry…as possible.
One of my old mates didn’t switch the fridge off as he backed into a notorious south east london delivery point (they don’t take prisoners) beside a block of flats, he had his head out the window reversing in and the refrigerator dropped from the top of the block just missed him and smashed to pieces beside the tractor.
He turned the fridge of next time.
The 63 plate DAFs have a button to turn them off but they don’t all work and some don’t turn off the trailers bleeper.
The 14 plate axors don’t appear to have any way of turning the bleepers off
I have found that if you pull out the green line the beeper won’t sound on the trailer. Obviously wouldn’t drive round with it out, but for the sake of carrying out the manoeuvre and avoiding complaints I do it at notorious delivery points.
scanny77:
The biggest problem is very basic. No way of turning off the reverse warning. I hate having to reverse in a truck park at night when I have a merc
If you are allowed to mod it, then earth the beeper through the fog light. Turn fog light on to turn beeper off.
The supermarkets are far more wily than many realise. They will buy up large areas of land on the quiet and sit on it for years. Then the process starts, in return for a Doctor’s surgery or similar they get permission to build their store on a small part of the land. Then a while later comes the real intention. The building of the houses on the rest of their land to boost the number of customers and the possible subsequent expansion of the shop into a superstore.
deliver fridges to stores being refurbed at all times of the night. have to use a moffet to get them off the trailer. most stores are the local convenience variety of your big supermarkets
Re the reversing beeper I thought they had to be wired with a manual switch failing that they had to be wired to switch off when lights were used …
Back to The OP topic .
When on for Safeway we had a few delivery’s that had a time sensitive window ie not after 23:00 or before 07:00 but then they had a store in Bideford Devon that had houses backing onto the store so they had a agreement that after installing a high fence and sound proofing boards they then went down the route of having a shrouded delivery bay with matting and soft wheel pump trucks to eliminate noise …as for training H&S hadn’t really gone over board at that point
