31-12-2018, 01:38 AM
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Re: Things that annoy you!
Originally Posted by
spitfire
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Pug, is rope and sheet still relevant.
Tautliners were the kiss of death for real trampers.
Too right it is,Spitty! FAR too many kids today are taking their HGV1 tests in automatic trucks,pulling nothing but freezers or containers. I very often get asked [usually by gen-haul firms] to show their new drivers how to rope & sheet,how to use 'dollies' for tightening,the differences between single dolly,dual dolly,sliding dolly,tackle dolly,etc. Invariably,if I stand and watch at point of loading,two things happen.
1/the wimps can't shoulder a sheet up onto the load
2/once the sheet is up,they invariably unroll the front sheet first.
The other thing that's becoming a lost skill is folding the sheet so it unrolls in position on the load...you wouldn't believe the number of ties that get caught,cut,ripped out or just ignored as some container-driving 22yo dork tells me ''They ain't important''. I still,in this 21st century,as a favour,drive a flatbed artic to Bury St Edmunds,to collect 400 1cwt bags of horse feed from the sugar mill,which I handball on,then it's roped & sheeted,before being taken to three stables in/around Essex.
The kids won't-that's REFUSE-to do that work. They're good at pulling boxes,but crap at being truckers,mate. I know-I get reminded all the time by other truckers-that I have degrees in subjects not pertinent to trucking. BUT...I've taken trucks all over Europe,across Russia,plus driven the ice roads of Alaska.
It's trucks that gave me those adventures,NOT my degree in physics. Long live the tramper,Spitty!