kyk:
scoobyears:
how do you check the brake lights?Lucky ones get “the button”, “the xmas lights button”. Even me once had one with “the button”…
I either check em on a dark morning or evening, when parked upto a wall or wedge me hammer up the brake pedal and walk round the back.
scoobyears:
how do you check the brake lights?
I drive a real lorry so I take the number plate off my trailer and wedge it between the brake pedal and steering column.
I`m no mechanic, but i have mechanical knowledge,. so i suspect that a hot drum/wheel thats melting the plastic thingymajigs needs looking at, but i would have let it cool down, then ran to the garage as requested. regarding the note to drivers, it is asking drivers to let the office make decisions as to whether a vehicle is safe to drive, and thats totally the wrong attitude…its always a drivers responsibility to ensure a vehicle is safe and roadworthy to use…in this instance…it had a problem and in my opinion it could have been driven to a place of safety ie…the garage which was only 5 miles away.
truckyboy:
regarding the note to drivers, it is asking drivers to let the office make decisions as to whether a vehicle is safe to drive, and thats totally the wrong attitude…its always a drivers responsibility to ensure a vehicle is safe and roadworthy to use…
I don’t think that’s the meaning of the note at all - What they appear to me to be saying is that any such decision must be made with the advice of the appropriate maintenance organisation (whether that be the company’s own engineers or e.g. their preferred tyre company or the vehicle manufacturer (or their appointed agents)). What they don’t want is drivers saying “Yeah - that’ll be OK for today/to get today’s drops done/to get to the workshop/until it starts raining etc”.
Of course, once such a decision has been made (by the company) it’s still an option for the driver to decline to take the vehicle out, as long as he can justify that choice.