Wagon and drag, drag is an A frame.

[chilistrucker]

As per title really, tips anyone?

I'm finally driving a wagon again tomorrow for the first time in over 3 and a half years and I know I'm going to be a bit rusty, the thing is its a wagon and drag on the A frame setup which is a first for me.

[chilistrucker]

brrapp said:

Absolutely fine going forward, bit of a bugger to reverse them. Good luck with the job , glad to hear you finally got the DVLA thing sorted out.

Edited by brrapp on Tuesday 9th January 19:38

Cheers, only an assessment tomorrow but fingers crossed.

[chilistrucker]

Thanks bigwheel.
I have a friend who started at this firm 2 months back and he echos your points exactly, so it looks like I'll be fine going forward but am going to be the new kid in school with the reversing. He said it will annoy the hell out of me to begin with, but it slowly gets easier.

It seems like the job is all drop box work and they split front and rear at main hub, to either tip on bay or leave in yard for shunters to sort later.

[chilistrucker]

Thanks mate.
Yeah they dragged it out a bit eh, I did point this out once or twice on my claims forms that I’ve been working on

I have always wondered why the a frame is still being used over the more usual drawbar setup?
On my travels I did notice that the a frames seemed to be most popular in Germany.

[chilistrucker]

grumpy52 said:

Come on Chilli , how did it go ?
Or are you still shunting about trying to park ?

Hello grumpy.
First shift tomorrow but looks like this week will be training out on the road learning routes etc but as a passenger.

Looks like second week is when the fun begins.