SCARY Moment unloading BIG Machine! HGV Driver POV.
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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In this video, I have some issues loading up a machine and you get to see it from my POV.
As a HGV Driver in the UK, trucking across the country delivering plant machinery can be challenging especially when its down tight, narrow county lanes.
Join mean as I take you along, showing you the challenges that I face on a day to day basis and what I have to do to ovecome them.
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Chest cam footage was good. Interesting to see the inside of the plant machinery. Keep up the good work 👍
Hi, if I may, I will give you my input on your securing load.
The forward chains were good, showing a clear 45-degree angle, on the other hand the rear of the roller was poorly secured, (you were lucky) the rear was secured perpendicular to the load, so if you would have had to force break, then the load would have moved forward. The correct approach would have been as you did the ones on the front, but facing backwards.
About reversing the machine on down hills: this is considered bad practice because of the nature of the machine trying to push down by its inertia. So, the best thing is always to try, where possible and safe, to park and offload or load downhill.
This is more acute on rigids, as this has a higher angle on the ramps.
We have to be extra careful on bad weather conditions.
Non-experienced lorry loaders drivers tend not to show how they load it for fear of scrutiny, so kudos to you.
Unfortunately, you can always unload on the flat or 'uphill'. In an ideal world, we would unload on the flat with no camber affecting the loading and unloading.
I have done loading and unloading in the very wet with the rollers, and it's a little scary when it slips if you're not expecting it.
Fair point about the rear chains, I'll see what other options I have when loading this particular machine.
Driveing with the machines on im always more cautious than I was doing curtainside or containers, there is something more unnerving about seeing the load in the wing mirror.
@@AshleyHaleUK "Unfortunately, you can always unload on the flat or 'uphill'" I think you meant downhill, but I get what you meant and you are right.
"I have done loading and unloading in the very wet with the rollers, and it's a little scary when it slips if you're not expecting it." I could not agree more, just to add mud and icy conditions.
"I'll see what other options I have when loading this particular machine." I saw that you have inner contact points too, so you can increase the angle or just cross them.
"there is something more unnerving about seeing the load in the wing mirror."
What I do is tilt down a bit on both sides of the plant mirrors, so I can see the leading edges of the plant as I reverse them off.
The worst machines are the ones that only fit on one side of the ramps, such as 1t diggers or the 80 rollers or even the RAMEX (trench roller). Zero margin of error.