Dolly Knot and Driver CPC 

Hi, just passed my cpc mod4 today with 100%. Thank you very much for this video. I watched video like 4 times and manage to passed for first try!!!

Really good video. One of the best on RU-vid on the matter (I have seen many). Well done!

i was sent home today from work because i did,nt have a clue using rachets,thanks pal informative video. my advice to all young new lgv drives out there dont panic never rush be prepared and keep learning, be chuffed.

your dolly knot demo was alot easier then what the instructor on my mod 4 test did. yours is alot neater compared to my instructor.

Great video, clear, concise and straight to the point. Best dolly know explanation I've seen.

Well explained video, great help for my upcoming CPC Many thanks

Many years since i had to tie a dolly this video was a great help thanks

The "dolly knot" is still a must have in any drivers armoury. Good description and video from E.P.Training but there is a much easier, simpler way of tying one off.....

This is great! I have my test on the 29th Nov and my instructor hadn't told me this could be a part of the test! I watch your other Mod 4 cpc video sometimes but I only came across this randomly by searching 'how to dolly knot' out of interest. Wish I knew how to tie it off though. Great video, very helpful.

Very helpful I have my test in 3 hours and just realised my trainer showed me another dolly knot... Thing I'll go with yours.

Watched this before my test this morning. I passed with 100%

Very helpful I have my test in 3 hours and just realised my trainer showed me another dolly knot... Thing I'll go with yours

got my test tomorrow hopefully ill pass i think your videos have been such a good help time will tell ;)

Thanks for this, start flat bed work tomorrow and was told to go off and learn a Dolly Knot in case I need to sheet. Best video I've seen in terms of explaining it simply

About time they offered training for load restraints. Whether or not you will need a dolly knot is immaterial. You should know it in case your only option is rope? Nice Samba's fella..

Passed mod 4 this week after my practical test a few weeks back (first time). Just a note to say thank you so much for your informative videos. They have been spot on. Cheers mate!

Just watched your video and learnt how to do that dolly knot. very useful. Thanks same time had fun time with my 12y. old daughter.. she can do it aswell now :D thank you for video...ready for my cpc at the beginning of january.

Well done E.P training....i just pass my module 4 yesterday based on your videos only. thanks to your videos, keep loading videos on youtube.

As it happens, your video was the only reason I passed the cpc test. Don't count on Atkins lgv to help you, I was the only person to pass in my group and it was no thanks to their 5 minute walk around just before the test. Cheers EPC! Ps, I did the dolly knot in the end, it was the bit where you twist the rope I couldn't see at first.

Brilliant, best CPC video I've seen, great explanation of the dolly knot, I've looked at loads of videos scratching my head, this one was simple, nailed it. Thanks a lot.

The Dolly knot had always fascinated me,since the years I helped out on Rowlands Fair,and I watched Albert Rowland tying down tarps with that knot. He could do it so fast,it was unbelievable. I still even now think of it as one of the most fascinating knots ever invented. Thanks for the video!

I was always taught a knot _veeery_ similar to what folks call a “dolly knot”, but the way you make the loop is different. I was taught by both my father and grandfather (who was in the Navy for years!) as a naval knot. It does the EXACT same thing, and while a dolly knot is already fairly easy to take apart, it’s still even _easier_ to take the knot I was taught apart.

Best video , makes preparation so much easier highly recommend

Passed my Module 4 at Guildford. Was nervous! Got 100per cent in the end. Well pleased. Cheers for posting the video. It did help. Bloke in vid was good at explaining it simple. Saw some of your EP boys up at test centre. Many Thanks. now for my C+E in september

Brilliant! I have my mod4 tomorrow and after watching both videos definitely feel more at ease thanks!

In Ireland thinking of going for the C Licence these videos are very informative will deff check out the rest . I am sure a lot of the procedures in the UK are similar to here. :-)

I like to thank you and your efforts u done on this video. ......I passed my test today and only use this video....thanks again all the best for u

roping and sheeting was hard work back in the day! no ratchet straps and curtain siders!!

Thanks E.P Training your module 4 videos have definitely help me with what the the test is going to be like

Dolly Knot is the Legend

Thanks guys. Having failed my first attempt at the Mod4, I watched your videos all weekend and got 100% today in my re-test. Many thanks.

Thank you for doing these videos, they are really usefull.

Thanks, i got 100% thanks to this video.

Would just like to add, on the test you have the option of either ratchet strap or the dolly. So don'y panic if you can't master this, just go with the ratchet!

thank you!!youte video is pro+++...you are a good teacher and every time you show and explained very good

Cheers guys you've been a big help with all your videos, easy peasy to follow them

Many Thanks Excellent an simply put. Doing my Cpc mod 4 test on wed. Keep up the Good Work.

Great video ! Would probably have helped to show how to tie off a dolly knot to finish...but one of the best videos out there

Things have definitely changed from when I passed my HGV I was taught to rope and sheet a load part of my training in 1978

thanks for the videos guys .im doing my cpc next week and found both your videos very informative.

A very useful video mate thanks.

Many Thanks i am on a combined course paid for class 2 an me C+E etc. with co' in Hook who i sure you know. Did notice you use proper Artics not W+D which i would prefer to learn in Artic. All booked though. I wish you guys all the best in hindsight i would have booked you lot but it was paid for by 2nd party. Keep up the goid work Shaun.

Excellent, most informative demonstration.👍 Thank you E.P. Training!

Hi Shaun, I have found this video really helpful. Feel able to book in now for module 4, then I can get out on the road, finally!

Thanks to E P Training I took my national & international CPCs in 1990 and sailed through both. This video is a lesson on how to please an examiner who has probably never done the job, not how to secure a load. I would never fix a chain to a hook, only the chassis, and only fix a strap to a hook when the chassis is not accessable, ie over the 5th wheel. No criticism or offence is intended to the instructor. It also worries me to think someone driving a 44 tonne truck needs to be shown how to use a ratchet strap!

All in all a good video for the new start. Dolly could be single or double, a second dolly could be used to make a rope hook where one is missing. The ratchet strap can go either through and up or just down.Excess rolled into a circle and tied off using itself.

Fantastic explanation. However, the camera shots are absolutely unuseful.

i have to get some rope to pratice the dolly knot :) thanks for great advice and tips on how to pass lgv test great vids keep up the great work :) if i lived in surry id deffo come to use

Nice one

Great teacher

Thanks, it's been about 16 years since I did a dolly knot which I forgot how to do.

Cheers helped me get ready for test

very well explained especially the dolly knot good video

TBH I am still a big fan of roping and sheeting, for the majority of loads with the exception of steel. with a correctly roped and sheeted load, I can see what is happening with the load at all times. It was all I was issued with when I first started back in the day !

so examiner may askme directly about using doly knots or I can just always use straps which are much easier?

I have seen your video on what to use on ratchets and they way you use the left over of strap in the wind they blow loose and look untidy so to stop this thread the left over strap through the handle and fold the loose strap in about 6inches and put it under the handle before locking the handle strap they never move and look better ok ..they say by some comments that old drivers have bad tips but after 50 years I have had we could offer so much i had 30yrs driving out of swiss and to Russia and many other countries at -40 in Russia and i saw on of the other videos of an instructor say we dont use rope I think he was trained by the Army or so cos thats what they would say and i dont know any sheet on a flat bed that can be secured by ratchets alone ... take care stay safe I forgot when you made the hitch with the rope you locked the rope by going over it twice but when you do that you can't pull the rope you have to undo each one by hand but that tip is the old hand showing you sir

Very good my friend Thank you 👍👍

good luck getting that dolly out after 4 hours driving through freezing fog

got my mod4 test next week with the dolly not do you have to show the tie off as well or just the not is Ok

Only 2 choices in restraints when I started driving HGV ropes or chain and dwang

Great professional video , very clear Thanks Is this the same as the Truckie /er knot?

Thanks so much sir

thank you nicely explained

But if you let go of the rope it fills apart

Sean, I have heard that the Dolly Knot is not tested in the CPC test anymore could you confirm or deny that please. I’m told it’s because roping is no longer done replaced by straps or chains (or both). Many thanks for the excellent videos.

Hi just afte some advice. I ben driving coaches for 25 years. Got al my cards up today, but what do I need to go from psv to class 1 C + E . Is that something I could do ?

I carry plant machinery, and have never put two links of a chain into a hook on the ratchet, ive always thought this would over load the ratchet hook. ???

Thanks 100% pass

I've got my test on wednsday great video thanks i let you kow:(

Try a double dolly twice as tight

Is that a polypropylene rope? Gonna guess it is, mine is new and shinny lol

Not sure if the test requires it but a dolly knot as shown is useless if not tied off afterwards. I personally finish with two half hitches underneath the dolly to lock it off.

the camera isnt following the instruction closely enough in this vid

Nice presentation but bloody awful ratchet tidy. Hopefully that's been improved. Really liked the dolly k ot demo and the demo on the braces

how do you secure the bit of rope you are holding down after tying the dolly knot?

fantastic instructions all videos are well delivered. thanks so much hope i pass tomorrow

This vid is v good keep up the good work lads I go for my test soon

I assume you have to tie off the end of the rope to stop it coming undone??

What a bloody boss 💪🙌

Great video mate

so how to secure the rest of the rope at the end because it wasn't shown?

I did roping and sheeting for thirty years but if i left a 'dolly' knot with a massive loop like that i would'nt have lasted thirty minutes! That was'nt a 'dolly' you showed either, it's a double 'dolly'.

These days can only use a Dolly to secure a sheet & not the load. The load must have rachets or chain binders .

Nice.

dolly knot is not easy to remember specialy when the camera man is focused on a different part of the dam rope

why didnt you use one chain as they do on tests

strange as I've just came out the army as a driver and I'm doing module 4 wednesday but we have rachet and straps facing outwards.

You missed the bit on all of them, where you HAVE to twang the tensioned restraint, and confidently say "that aint going anywhere!!!"

Didn't do any of these on my test lol But id get shown how to use tgem obviously..I am using rachet straps atm as I'm in a flat bed delivering building supplies :)

Should be done on trailer where to anchor hooks not on actual load as it looks.

Dolly Knot starts at 10:07. Thank me later.

s it at all possible for people with autistic spectrum disorder. to become hgv drivers ? if not im leaving the uk for ever i have had 2 or 3 life appemts when i was about 23 24 not had any ever since in the past been on meds i should never of been on is there any light at the end of the tunnel for me ? i just really wanna drive a hgv befour my life is up current age is 26

very helpfull cheers

Are you based over near Dorking in Surrey?

Thx

He's never done that knot in a practical way, ie only as a training proceed, the loop was to big, wast of rope plus dangerous with big hoops snagging on passing items.

When i was roping and sheeting i was trained to throw the end of the rope over the load and then secure it rather than secure the end and then throw ALL the remaining rope over, much easier, and my dolly knot was better than yours

Erm, how do you undo a dolly knot?

I never had eyes on my flat trailers

Good training ...wearing no gloves !!!!!!