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Familiarize Controls and Start Driving

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How NOT to run Heavy equipment. Mistakes & red flags in a 60 ton rock truck #2

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Before driving, familiarize yourself with the cab controls. Locate the engine brake button and the automatic traction control switch, ensuring they are engaged. Place your foot on the main brake pedal. Release the parking brake by pulling the lever, then engage the drive gear using the gear selector. The instructor highlights that the steering wheel does not automatically return to the center in articulated trucks.

Goal: Prepare the truck for movement and begin driving.

Tools and materials

  • Volvo A60H Articulated Dump Truck Volvo — The vehicle being operated

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right. Get you familiar with the truck. Okay. Um, so this button right here means that your engine brake is on. So, when you let the accelerator, it's going to kick in automatic. You're going to feel a pull, like you said, a little bit pull slowing you down. Okay. Automatic traction controls on. All right. So, we're ready to go. So, what you'd want to do is put your foot on the on the on the brake. Okay. And turn that. That's your park brake. You're going to turn your park brake off. All right. Then you're going to put it in drive. Do I do anything with that? You don't need to touch that. Then we're going to turn out here to the to the right. Oh jeez. Give it some gas. need to nervous. This thing steers weird. It's like separate. It's Yeah. So, it's separate. You It doesn't go back to center. So, what you want to do is make sure realize you're in the middle of the truck. You're not in on the right side of the truck. So, remember, you need to stay in the center of the road whenever you're driving. Just go all the way around this way. That's a better idea. can you see good out of your mirrors? Yeah. Okay. So, we're going to go up around here behind these trucks.

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