Seat belt TRICK

[pierrot_14]

Juddian:

pierrot 14:

F-reds:

pierrot 14:
I’ve often got into a wagon and found the belt done up on the passenger seat !!!
WHY ■■?

Because no one has used the seat since it was last safety checked

Yeah Whatever

Sounded quite a reasonable suggestion to me.

Maybe the last or regular driver uses the seat belt to keep his cool box, or summat else, in place.

Seat belt round the cool box to keep the sandwiches safe - oh please

and anyway wouldn’t he undo the belt to release the cool box when he takes it home

[bluey_circles]

Juddian:

pierrot 14:

F-reds:

pierrot 14:
I’ve often got into a wagon and found the belt done up on the passenger seat !!!
WHY ■■?

Because no one has used the seat since it was last safety checked

Yeah Whatever

Sounded quite a reasonable suggestion to me.

Maybe the last or regular driver uses the seat belt to keep his cool box, or summat else, in place.

if the cool box was particularly heavy it may trick the sensor into thinking someone was sitting on the seat and set the buzzer off. Thus plugging the belt in sorts the problem out

[conor]

pierrot 14:
I’ve often got into a wagon and found the belt done up on the passenger seat !!!
WHY ■■?

It gets checked in the 6 weekly safety inspection or MOT, nobody ever sits in the passenger seat afterwards and driver can’t be bothered to unclip it.

Every MOT my car has it comes out of the garage with all the belts apart from drivers seat clipped in.

[pimpdaddy]

The fine alone is enough to make me wear mine.

[kr79]

The seat belts other than the drivers in my car are all plugged in since the mot 3 months ago.
I only use the car for work and no one else goes in it.

[dipper_dave]

First thing i do when I collect my car after its MOT is go round and undo all the seatbelts then the garage thinks I have friends.

[trucking_turner]

The more idiots we lose, the better the gene pool. . . . . . .

[immigrant]

When they gave you the Job they may have told you to use the Seatbelt
If you dont use them you not doing your Job correctly and shall not take full Amount of Wages.
I recomment to pay 30% of your Wages back to the Company for risking your Health and Life which could cost your Employer a very high Price

[martin]

A market stall that did printed Tee Shirts had a special for drivers, a hi-vis tee shirt with seat belt printed across the shoulder and chest. Looked fine from outside the cab but a bit odd out of it!

[xichrisxi]

maestegboy:
Well maybe not a trick, but here goes.

Some driver has got the seatbelt clip clicked into the holder then wrapped the belt around the back of the seat.This stops the alarm going off and the red light on the dashboard coming on. so they can drive without the belt ON.

Why would you risk it?
1, You wouldn,t be insured
2, You could get fined
3, If an accident happens (you could be flying without wings!)

Perhaphs it,s just not COOL…

This drive is clearly a genius,never mind driving wagons he should of been on that mission to space that’s just taken off!!!

[ash_001]

Radar19:
I feel unsafe if I don’t have my seatbelt on.

That’s because your driving!

[ash_001]

Martin:
A market stall that did printed Tee Shirts had a special for drivers, a hi-vis tee shirt with seat belt printed across the shoulder and chest. Looked fine from outside the cab but a bit odd out of it!

Evil needs this! It will complete his agency driver look!!!

[gcr2erf]

Instead of actually wearing the belt, why not put the buckle in your coat pocket, like Peter Kay’s nan?

[roymondo]

Juddian:
Confession time, i’ve only started using the seat belt in the lorry in the last few years and thats only cos the old bill can make points make prizes for easy nicks like that, and are now doing so, they used to turn a blind eye at one time.

Not cos i’m an arse (i am) but having driven a bloody Volvo FM for ages with its wardrobe door mirrors the bog cleaner brought in from Ikea, and now with an MAN with equally stupid wardrobe doors mirrors, i like everyone else have had enough frights when losing ■■■■■■ vans let along bikes behind those mirrors so leaving the belt off makes it much easier to duck and dive about to see round the ridiculous things.

Nonsense - I’ve never driven anything where the seatbelt stopped the driver moving around as much as he wanted/needed to see around the mirrors. Actually that’s not true - I have driven a couple of vehicles with full four-point harnesses, but TBH the mirrors on those were rudimentary at best.

[glen_a9]

I had a colleague who would always wrap the belt around the back of the seat and it twisted the belt at the buckle, so the buckle wouldn’t slide freely or twisted and got stuck.

Another colleague had a plastic dummy clip which he would leave plugged in, but he lost that when he left it in my truck, I put it in a cubbyhole, then forgot to take it out when the truck left us.
He has now found himself another clip off an old vehicle, which I put somewhere amongst his huge amount of crap that he keeps in the drawer under the bunk when I was using his truck last week, then he was moaning that he couldn’t find it. I did point out that it would be easier just wearing the seatbelt, but that seemed to be lost on him.

I was with another driver in a previous job who would leave the seatbelt clipped in, but pull the top part over his head so it was across his chest, but sit on the bottom part, which was most strange.

I really don’t understand some people’s aversion to wearing them in trucks, when they will always wear them in their car. The newer ones which are built into the seat, rather than fixed to the cab, are no less comfortable as in a car.
I’ve heard some strange reasoning as well, such as “I’m in a bigger vehicle so I’ll come off better than the other guy” - someone told me that while driving a 15 tonne rigid! And even being in a 44 tonne artic isn’t going to stop you going through the windscreen if you hit something just as big.