The essential new truckers' handbook
The Choir Press (Verlag)
978-1-78963-046-6 (ISBN)
This up-to-date informative and fully illustrated guide provides all the information you need to gain and then safeguard your hard-won licence, go to work successfully in the industry and enhance your employment opportunities.
This invaluable 28 chapter handbook is written by an LGV 1 driver of 24 years' experience in collaboration with an LGV trainer for the sole purpose of helping new and returning drivers confidently and safely into work. Readers will find this comprehensive handbook beneficial, accessible and user friendly.
Whether you are just starting out in your career, or a returning veteran of the open road, you will find everything you need in these chapters to support your way forward, including:
* In depth tips and advice for passing the on road driving test.
* An overview of the technology you will be expected to use day to day.
* A clear, simplified review of the rules and regulations that you will have to abide by.
* A guide to operating the various different types of trucks: curtain siders, reefers, hook loaders, skips, grabs, tippers, cranes etc.
* A guide to operating the various different types of trailers: tautliners, reefers, containers, double deckers, low loaders, car transporters etc.
* Step by step instructions for: loading equipment, safe loading, load securing, coupling, vehicle checks, as well as using digicards and digital tachographs.
* Detailed pre-employment examination test paper and answers.
* Useful, multi-scenario job advice and much more.......!
The 1st edition was reviewed in Truck & Driver magazine in summer 2016 and made editor's choice of the month.
Malcolm Green is an LGV1 driver with 19 years in the industry.
Chapter 1 Tachograph and Digicard; Chapter 2 official Working Time Regulations (WTR); Chapter 3 Drivers' Hours Rules; Chapter 4 mock-up of New Driver's Shift; Chapter 5 mandatory Vehicle Inspection Checks; Chapter 6 Coupling Procedures; Chapter 7 loading and Unloading; Chapter 8 load Chaining and lashing; Chapter 9 manoeuvring; Chapter 10 Key Safe (lock on Dock); Chapter 11 Refrigerated Trailers and Tautliners; Chapter 12 Gearboxes; Chapter 13 Roping and Sheeting; Chapter 14 maximum Vehicle laden Weights; Chapter 15 Enviromentally Friendly - Fuel Saving - Driving; Chapter 16 Regulations on Tachograph Exempted Vehicles; Chapter 17 Users Guide to operating Trucks and Trailers; Chapter 18 ADR - Accord Dangereux Routier; Chapter 19 mineral Products Qualification Council - mPQC; Chapter 20 Umbrella Companies; Chapter 21 Pre-Employment Examination Questions; Chapter 22 Jobs at a Glance; Chapter 23 Jobs Abroad; Chapter 24 optional Electrical Equipment; Chapter 25 Road Safety/Useful Information; Chapter 26 Driver Fatigue; Chapter 27 load securing, operators' guide; Chapter 28 Advice for passing LGV driving test.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.05.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | DriveMaster Skills Handbook ; 1 |
| Zusatzinfo | 167 colour and b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Gloucester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 341 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78963-046-0 / 1789630460 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78963-046-6 / 9781789630466 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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