bugcos:
is it me or or airlines getting harder to push on? Had to do half a nights shunting last night on fridges couldnt help getting covered in grease cos had to push that hard on the airlines. I know about the split coupling system but some of the trailers had no park brake on so couldnt do it on them. surely there could be some better connections, like the scandinavian couplings?
Now,biggest British Airline is BA,but Virgin Atlantic gets closer
Lovlyperson:
Now,biggest British Airline is BA,but Virgin Atlantic gets closer
Hervorragend
Look at this for a clever idea, came across them on a R series Scania last week. Unbelievably easy to push them on could do it with one hand, even when close coupled. 
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…Denis F
MMMM…lovely nice clean suzies.
Never saw that before ,weird looking suzzies !
been lucky enough never to have a run a way altho when changing units last month i asked a driver (who will rename nameless lol) to move my unit out the way till i hooked the demo up, and yes he forgot to put park brake on .thank fully there was a van boy in the cab who after the original fright grabed the hand brake on
Lot of ideas on here about run-a-ways , but surley the most simplest way if on the cat walk ,is to kink the red air line ■■?
rather than trying to un plug the red air line or even more dangerous trying to jump in the cab !
wouldn’t that make them more likely to kink when they were at full stretch 
(looking at this from a W&D perspective)
higher air pressures don’t help(you are trying to open a spring loaded valve with 120 psi behind it)and if you look inside the red coupling you will see the little ball bearings mentioned in an earlier post…that’s what needs lubing up along with the sheaf.
dunking in the diesel is a new one on me…
runaways are nasty…i’ve seen a couple happen and the blind panic they cause is pretty alarming. 
1 chap ran round the front and for some bizzarre reason tried to stop the whole outfit by putting his leg in front of the front wheel…unless he slipped under trying to get in the cab…we never did find out.
another lost his hand when he pulled the pin with the airlines still attatched and the legs up…the trailer slid backwards trapping his hand on the wing top and doing the damage… 
be careful out there guys.
I’m ashamed to admit that I once coupled a unit up to the trailer, connected the red line and the whole thing started rolling backwards. I’d obviously forgotten the handbrake in the unit. I jumped off the catwalk, ran round to the drivers door, opened it and got my hand on the lever just as the whole rig hit the warehouse side. I was young and inexperienced, very lucky to walk away with my life intact and I also managed to keep my job. No-one else got hurt and I never ever made that ■■■■-up again 
Shrek:
I’m ashamed to admit that I once coupled a unit up to the trailer, connected the red line and the whole thing started rolling backwards. I’d obviously forgotten the handbrake in the unit. I jumped off the catwalk, ran round to the drivers door, opened it and got my hand on the lever just as the whole rig hit the warehouse side. I was young and inexperienced, very lucky to walk away with my life intact and I also managed to keep my job. No-one else got hurt and I never ever made that ■■■■-up again
couldn’t you just disconnect the red line
Guess i was lucky one of the first places i worked, was a double man trunk and the guy i was working with had worked in a place in Birmingham i think where someone was killed changing a trailer.
He always drummed it into my to always be methodical changing trailers espec since we did split couple. Even tho even in the place uses the trailer brake always double check.
Another good bit of advice he gave me was once you start coupling or uncoupling don’t stop, he said he had seen numerous accidents when people had been half way through then started chatting to someone then came back to it and had forgetten something.
Never had any problems changing trailers or any runaways guess working with that guy at first made me do it correct and not take any chances.