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My first ever trucking job on my own. how did it go?
Sider:
--- Quote from: DiscoDan on April 09, 2010, 01:49:42 ---Isn't it a legal requirement that the haulage company provides you with a bridge height warning system, and as these are so expensive the allowable alternative is the AA Truckers atlas. We get issued with these as a new driver with the company.
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Nope, the legal requirement is for the vehicle to have the height visibly displayed inside the cab. As long as they put the sticker/note pads/or even paint it on, they have fulfilled their obligation.
frosty:
it may be a legal requirement but the firm i work for and the 2 before that didnt have height markings in them..i pack a cheap 5m tape measure in my bag..does the job!
paul_humphreys:
If it is a recovery, then it does not even have to have the hight in the cab!!
But I did my first night in a lorry this week!! All ok. I also got with the auto box ok, just the 3 over 3 is taking some getting use to. 4 over 4 is fine :)
Paul
frosty:
try a foden with a 380 cummins and an eaton twin splitter with a sharp clutch..you either wheel spin or stall! lol
landmannnn:
Sounds frustrating but, is that all you've got???
Having run transport ops for supermarket and store deliveries I have some far worse examples
- the driver who got his trailer stuck turning on a high street, I had to get a crane in to lift it and put it back on the road
- the driver who left his handbrake off on a south wales valley street, it did over 10 cars and 3 shops, imagine the paperwork.
- the phone call from the police, an agency driver had given up, dumped his tractor/trailer and taken the train home, the station car park not designed for 40' trailers!
- the artic driver stuck so badly on a single track road it took 3 days to get it out, he had gone 4 miles up the tiniest lane before realising his mistake!
- countless bridges bashed, gearboxes destroyed, fridges put on +25 instead of -25, farmborough deliveries to farnborough, wrong trailers delivered to the wrong place, hi-jacks, rta's
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