robroy:
Bking:
My brakes never fail!Unlike your apparent personality and attitude on here!
Yeah, if you think everyone is a “cabbage” on here, why not join a fitters forum instead?
Its not my truck, if its not road worthy, its not being driven. If there is a fault that develops on the road then I stop and like others have said phone it in. Then I put my feet up and wait as I’m paid by the hour.
I am retired now, and like many who have driven lorries for donkey years have done all the usual mechanical " bodges " to "just get it back to the yard ". It is good that drivers do not have to do this anymore. I think,however,that having a very basic knowledge of how a vehicle works is not a bad thing.
If you know basically what is happening when you engage and disengage the clutch, for example, you may just save yourself being stranded with a burnt out one because unbeknown to you,you have been slipping it,and that nasty smell was not from the exhaust (as one driver once told me)
We also had a driver who went back into the office and said he would need another lorry as the one had been given,the “engine cut out every time he tried to set off” It had stood for a few days and the air was down.
I wouldnt expect drivers to do repairs nowadays,or to undestand how everything works in minute detail,but is it not helpful,not least to himself,to have some basic knowledge ?
Regards. John.