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Training needed, how to get in and out of truck.

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11 years 4 months ago #101721 by .RC.
This was in today's local paper, where an appeal was dismissed and some bloke has got $225 000 as essentially his employer never trained him how to get in and out of a truck cab..

Article on it here crlawyers.com.au/newsitems/articles/pers...fall-from-truck.html

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11 years 4 months ago #101722 by geoffb
Hate to say this but before long cab over will need a safety to access

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11 years 4 months ago #101723 by jimbo51
Next thing ...... truck owner sues Volvo for supplying an item not fit for purpose!

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11 years 4 months ago #101724 by jeffo
Yep I'm well out of all that stuff but from memory if you can fall 1.2M ??? you must fit handrails.
Hence the sprouting of handrails (with kick rails) on excavators, Frannas etc.

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11 years 4 months ago #101725 by gorby
It is true about training to get in a cab, I worked for a crowd with several different trucks and to get in one of them, you had to start off with the opposite foot or you would end up backing thru the door :)

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11 years 4 months ago #101726 by Mr T

Next thing ...... truck owner sues Volvo for supplying an item not fit for purpose!


Yeah, the steering-wheel attendent, AKA "the driver". ;D

Cheers!

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11 years 4 months ago #101727 by Bobsboy
Isn't there/ wasn't there a model of Freightliner that has/ had a full on stair way, complete with horizontal treads to access the cab?

What ever, a fall from such a height is not a "toughen up princess" situation.

Maybe driver access does need a rethink?
-b :-/

Mucking about on the edge

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11 years 4 months ago #101728 by Eddy
Getting out = Any landing ya can walk away from is a good'n ... ;D

Think it was a Merc I saw recently with a stairway that came out from over the wheel arch as the door opened 8-)

Be it firearms or V8 engines, the question is not "why should you have them?"
, but "who are you to demand that I justify them?"

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11 years 4 months ago #101729 by JimmyDodge
Yeah I know Freightliner Argosy's have the little stairs that come out when the door is opened , look the goods I reckon. ;)
Harleigh.

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11 years 4 months ago #101730 by BK

Yeah I know Freightliner Argosy's have the little stairs that come out when the door is opened , look the goods I reckon. ;)
Harleigh.


Until they malfunction, and they will.

Trust me

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