Proper Loading and Unloading

Let's do that. Now, what are some of the don'ts in one of these? Like the things that a newbie maybe get into and just what are the common things you see that very sharp turns loaded. You want to take a real gradual turn. Don't try to take char sharp turns, especially when you're on a grade. You want to keep a straight line as long as you can until you need to make that turn. And when you start making that turn, make it slow sweeping turns. Don't jerk the steering wheel real fast. And then when you're dumping, you want to make sure that truck is straight, as level as possible, as level as it can be. And you don't you don't want to have the truck cocked to one side when you're trying to dump or load. Those are the two big ones. Absolutely. slow sweeping turns and perfectly level ground at all possible, just like the truck is sitting now. That's exactly straight. You want those tires straight with each other. Look in your mirrors and make sure your sideboards are perfectly straight with the truck. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat up here. [music] Heat. Heat. All right, now you're going to watch another one of those things that you don't allow to happen to your rock truck. You don't let them load you heavy in the back. You just don't let them do that. Your load needs to be equally distributed over the center of those two tires and forward of the cab. Putting a heavy load on the back is a recipe for disaster. So add that to the do not do that. The reason we're doing this cuz we want to see those green lights go on. And it's hard to actually get 60 ton of rock to uh six rock to get to 60 tons in one of these. We're trying to get this truck to 60 ton and it'll be it'll indicate on the lights right above the mirror. So, this truck has its own weighing system for both the loader and the truck operator. Hopefully, we're going to see it. Look right above the mirror as this load goes on. Hopefully the yellow or the green light. Yellow means we're getting close to full load. Green means we're at full load. There we go. Close to a full load. That's crazy. Still don't have a full load on that. Watch those mirrors, guys. It's going to tell the operator just when to quit. So, there's your don'ts. Hope this video's helped you out. Um, I think next we're going to be putting my wife in a skid loader. What?