jakethesnake:
And just to be brutally honest there are some drivers who should not even be drivers and there are some that could never be anything else than a driver. Fact.
It’s not just me…
That thinks you overstay your welcome on any thread.
Juddian:
You’re not endearing yourself here Jake.
People don’t like your attitude. You always end up in dogfights in threads…why do you think that is? Think! You’re always in a fight here, it can’t be everyone else, surely it has to be you.
I have known one other member here who had exactly the same response to their posts and you sound just like him. Hell, even your avatar is similar in style.
People don’t like your pious ‘holier than thou attitude’ and that can’t be a coincidence.
jakethesnake:
And just to be brutally honest there are some drivers who should not even be drivers and there are some that could never be anything else than a driver. Fact.
It’s not just me…
That thinks you overstay your welcome on any thread.
Juddian:
You’re not endearing yourself here Jake.
People don’t like your attitude. You always end up in dogfights in threads…why do you think that is? Think! You’re always in a fight here, it can’t be everyone else, surely it has to be you.
I have known one other member here who had exactly the same response to their posts and you sound just like him. Hell, even your avatar is similar in style.
People don’t like your pious ‘holier than thou attitude’ and that can’t be a coincidence.
Still no proof of what you have already said■■? Show me? While we are at it also show me a thread where I have caused a dog fight as you call it?
I am jake and nobody else BTW . It’s blatanly obvious to the astute.
elsa Lad:
One of the biggest hazards of the job is piles…think I leave it there
Yes, I had forgotten about them! A right ‘pain in the backside’ just like some posters! Never suffered myself, but then I was rarely sitting for several hours at a time. However a couple of our drivers on distance runs did and they both used an inflateable ring on the seat which helped. That was in the days of fixed seats of course, maybe air suspended seats make things easier?
Muscles are normally damaged the most in lorry drivers as it is used to please the transport planners, especially the modern ones!
The four extrinsic muscles originate from bone and extend to the tongue. They are the genioglossus, the hyoglossus (often including the chondroglossus) the styloglossus, and the palatoglossus. Their main functions are altering the tongue’s position allowing for protrusion, retraction, and side-to-side movement.
Carryfast:
How many pilots and train drivers get ‘back problems’.
They are called compressive spinal injuries and decompression treatments for a reason and it has nothing to do with sitting.It’s more about excessive weight being transmitted from the arms to the legs and compressing the spine in trying.The shock absorbing flexible pieces of gristle and cartilage between the vertebrae only being designed for that purpose not for being used to save the costs of mechanical handling devices.
Loath as I am to reply and feed a Carryfast cut and paste debate, there are many ways to provoke back pain. It is well documented that a big stomach with atrophied muscles will pull your pelvis forward, causing a larger curve in the spine, which will invite all sorts of problems, none of them welcome, and all of them painful.
Why not contribute something constructive to the OP’s question, so perhaps somebody younger might learn from your experience, and possibly avoid suffering in later life.
Referring to the fact that hand balling a few too many loads or just one wrong one is more likely to wreck the spine than sitting driving anything from a plane to a train is contributing something constructive and certainly from my experience.
ive just been off for 8 months after requiring surgery to remove the end of my collorbone. after 14 years of shunting in a road unit and not being allocated a tug motor, my shoulder was injured connecting a red airline, the pressure in the airline caused it to backfire jolting my arm, then while winding the legs up on the trailer my shoulder popped. id done 12 hour nights, 5 nights a week and every other sunday up until the injury, coupling to trailer tipping it at the recieving bay. uncoupling whilst trailer was reloaded at empty stillage compound, then would have to couple up again , take the load to the trailer park and uncouple. and i was a fit 38 year old at the time. the company health and safety rep and fleet manager have both said they have never heard of anyone in all their years of experience in the job, of anybody being caused injury whilst connecting airlines to trailers, they claim there is not enough pressure in the airlines to cause injury at its a low risk task. they also say shunting in a road unit for the shifts ive explained and doing the role ive set out are the same as shunting in a tug/terberg motor. i obviously find this an absolute joke as the effort and fatigue on the body coupling / uncoupling, winding legs up and down, climbing in and out of the cab, aswell and connecting pressured airlines and apposed to the ease of using a tug motor’s hydrolic lift and unpressurised tap system.
opinion, is it harder to do shunt role in a road unit or terberg ?
does anyone know of anyone who has suffered an injury whilst connecting airlines like myself/
a lot of probs are down to being overweight. one tip i can give to losing weight is dont have lunch and try hard to have a small evening meal. i often chuck away almost half the weekly shop at the end of a week ,its uneaten , quite satisfying to do that
