Wheel Nut:
Someone mentioned automatic landing legs, well we had them over 40 years ago, they were a pain then. I reckon they will still be a pain. They jammed, they went up separately or not at all, they dropped down on their own, they had a mind of their own.
Might have been York Trailers, they did a bit of R&D, in the aerodynamic business as well.
When doing Agency for Argos out of Magna Park, the run to Newark was on a specific trailer with automatic winding legs. The store had a 20 ft long Anderson lead to power it as the delivery point was at the bottom of a steep slope.
Can’t remember of you had to un-couple as well to keep the trailer level (was a few years ago now) 
yourhavingalarf:
Fuzrat:
Still got a few that we use for trunking, cant ever remember them actually being opened though, all ours are loaded and tipped out the back doors.That reassures…
Me that my memory wasn’t playing tricks on me.
You have to question the logic of a transport operation that specifies curtainsiders for a job that always tips out the back doors.
Got a lot more boxes these days, both single and double deck. Got some fixed deck doubles out of Donny for trunking that need curtains opening and used to open the curtains on singles when we used to do back hauls from Hovis Southampton and coke at Edmonton but don’t do either anymore. Used to have to get the forkie to jiggle the poles most of the time as they used to be stuck solid from lack of opening 
Pennineman:
Wheel Nut:
Someone mentioned automatic landing legs, well we had them over 40 years ago, they were a pain then. I reckon they will still be a pain. They jammed, they went up separately or not at all, they dropped down on their own, they had a mind of their own.Might have been York Trailers, they did a bit of R&D, in the aerodynamic business as well.
These were on some ferry trailers, most got binned at the port. They were bent, pulled off or generally abused, when the tuggies lifted them the legs dropped down, or one leg dropped down [emoji15]
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I remember back in the 90s that Landrover had some trailers at Solihul with a kind of gull-wing open/close system. Quite impressive to watch. They wanted the load/unload speed using the sides as opposed to one stillage at a time through the back doors.
I worked for a Redditch firm supplying fascias to BMW Cowley. The trailers loaded and unloaded themselves. Open the back doors, back onto the loading dock and the load trundled off the two decks into the factory. Once the empties loaded themselves, that was it.
automatic curtains what next, lorries that drive themselves? 
I like a bit of manual work, does you good and stops you getting so fat
Try our loads on flatbeds. Have to pull 25ft ally ramps off deck, block under them and back of lorry to support weight. Crawl underneath load to hook winch chains on, winch load up onto bed, jack load up, support underneath with wooden blocks, put ramps back on bed, put unused blocks back in lockers, strap load with 8 ratchet straps, attach marker boards to back of load, slide out front marker boards and away you go.
And people moan that they have to manually pull a curtain back so a forkie can swiftly load/unload trailer while you wait, bless em
wide-load85:
automatic curtains what next, lorries that drive themselves?Try our loads on flatbeds. Have to pull 25ft ally ramps off deck, block under them and back of lorry to support weight. Crawl underneath load to hook winch chains on, winch load up onto bed, jack load up, support underneath with wooden blocks, put ramps back on bed, put unused blocks back in lockers, strap load with 8 ratchet straps, attach marker boards to back of load, slide out front marker boards and away you go.
And people moan that they have to manually pull a curtain back so a forkie can swiftly load/unload trailer while you wait, bless em
Lol I do a lot more than that and then they say are you sheeting it up driver … 
wide-load85:
I like a bit of manual work, does you good and stops you getting so fat
I tip my hat to people who do the more complicated stuff and those who did / do roping and sheeting (done twice, never again).
But these days I would hope they are on much better money, not £10 hour with trucks and equipment which the companies can’t be arsed to fix (even with a can of grease).
Ultimately, this is not a vocation for many of us these days. Its a means to an end, pays slightly better than van driving and if it stops us getting ■■■■ wet through, muddy and injured then its gotta be a good idea…usually. 