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V8Druid

V8Druid

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6feetdown said:
Yeah I thought that too
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would make sense .... no regular/self respecting truck driver'd perform like that :oops: .... (a) he'd not have made such a balls of the turn and (b) would deffo have gotten out and looked at the first sign of resistance
 
diggerjones

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DaveDCB said:
Lazy wagon drivers, the decent ones lift the body abit when 3/4 the way through loading, drop it when full and pull out the way before you can get the next bucket full in 🤣
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I've loaded a fair few 8 wheelers resently with big pieces of concrete with reinforcing mesh everywhere. Not 1 driver ever got out and looked at the load before they hurtled off.
 
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DaveDCB

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diggerjones said:
I've loaded a fair few 8 wheelers resently with big pieces of concrete with reinforcing mesh everywhere. Not 1 driver ever got out and looked at the load before they hurtled off.
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Passed a 8weeled on the m60 with its back door half open, wedged on the locking mechanism, looked like 10mm/dust covering the road! Lazy bugger never checked his door was latched properly 🤦‍♂️
 
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Smiffy

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DaveDCB said:
Passed a 8weeled on the m60 with its back door half open, wedged on the locking mechanism, looked like 10mm/dust covering the road! Lazy bugger never checked his door was latched properly 🤦‍♂️
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There is a known problem with a certain brand of auto rear doors opening when loaded with free flowing material. Don't know if 10mm to dust would be a problem but 10mm shingle is. I don't know if they have updated the lock design yet
 
diggerjones

diggerjones

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DaveDCB said:
Passed a 8weeled on the m60 with its back door half open, wedged on the locking mechanism, looked like 10mm/dust covering the road! Lazy bugger never checked his door was latched properly 🤦‍♂️
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They have camera's to check it's shut or you would see the load being lost with the camera😁
 
Shovelhands

Shovelhands

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I had an 8 wheeler come in with tailgate open, he’d no idea, or any idea where the Type1 was that he’d clearly lost on the way from the docks to me! 🤦‍♂️
He started saying that there must be something wrong with the lorry, as the tailgate open warning light was off! When I tried explaining to him that the latches were shut, and that’s where the sensor was, he looked a bit bemused 😂 in his mind ‘light off’ meant tailgate closed! When in actual fact it only means the latches are shut….

The other issue with these auto tailgates is a lot of drives don’t look at where they are tipping or what they are tipping on!
 
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Smiffy

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Shovelhands said:
I had an 8 wheeler come in with tailgate open, he’d no idea, or any idea where the Type1 was that he’d clearly lost on the way from the docks to me! 🤦‍♂️
He started saying that there must be something wrong with the lorry, as the tailgate open warning light was off! When I tried explaining to him that the latches were shut, and that’s where the sensor was, he looked a bit bemused 😂 in his mind ‘light off’ meant tailgate closed! When in actual fact it only means the latches are shut….

The other issue with these auto tailgates is a lot of drives don’t look at where they are tipping or what they are tipping on!
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I took a drop side 8 wheeler out one day full of topsoil. I loaded it and all the sides where 100% up and locked. Got to job and one of the sides was down passenger side front one so not very visible in the main mirror and wide angle was smashed so never saw it drop or saw it was down. Followed the same route back and there was a perfect pile of topsoil between two parked cars. No tyre prints in the soil so must have dropped perfectly between the two cars without hitting either. Very lucky day
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Smiffy said:
I took a drop side 8 wheeler out one day full of topsoil. I loaded it and all the sides where 100% up and locked. Got to job and one of the sides was down passenger side front one so not very visible in the main mirror and wide angle was smashed so never saw it drop or saw it was down. Followed the same route back and there was a perfect pile of topsoil between two parked cars. No tyre prints in the soil so must have dropped perfectly between the two cars without hitting either. Very lucky day
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you jammy sod :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

antiluces are a PITFA ....
always keep a clip in at least one on every trailer I have (and used to on me trucks too) ....
lost a tailboard off a trailer many years ago when they both jumped open ... saw and heard it and stopped pretty quick - frightened the bloke behind .. trailer was empty, fortunately
 
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Smiffy

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V8Druid said:
you jammy sod :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

antiluces are a PITFA ....
always keep a clip in at least one on every trailer I have (and used to on me trucks too) ....
lost a tailboard off a trailer many years ago when they both jumped open ... saw and heard it and stopped pretty quick - frightened the bloke behind .. trailer was empty, fortunately
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It didn't even have Anti looses. They where bars that spun and the weight was meant to hold them in place. Absolutely terrible design. Probably emphasized by everything being very worn out. And me being young and fresh and not knowing any better some just jumped in and bombed off down the road.
 
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cheggars

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V8Druid

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cheggars said:
Opps waiting to happen.😬
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outrigger legs got 3" of daylight under 'em :oops::oops::oops: ferk!!!
 
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DaveDCB

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Smiffy said:
There is a known problem with a certain brand of auto rear doors opening when loaded with free flowing material. Don't know if 10mm to dust would be a problem but 10mm shingle is. I don't know if they have updated the lock design yet
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The latches had pinched the bottom of the door so held it open about 3”, I assume the incab tailgate light must go off the latch pressure so it obviously thought it was shut 🤦‍♂️
 
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