as a guard i deal with trucks in and out day in day out and my high light is getting my photo of as meny bart tracks as poss but some days ago i was talking to a bart driver and mentioned mark dixon and his amazing truck and all i said to him was "oh do you no that guy mark" at this point the driver repliyed with oh you mean the **** dixon. i said o-k i take it you do see eye to eye i then got a sturn face as a repliy followed with a chuckle. now i couldent leave it there. all is not good
nice video and what worries me is that Fiona's Lorry has an automatic gearbox that might lose Traction in the snow perhaps she could have used a manual 10-18 speeds roadranger gearbox like her American, Canadian & Australian counterparts (Ice Road truckers Lisa Kelly,Maya & Stephanie or Outback truckersDeb & Sharon)
Here in Ireland we had snow in January 2018. Prior to that my area, Dun Laoghaire, didn't see snow that stuck on the ground for a couple of years. I live on the coast so when snows falls it's very odd for it to stick due to the dry salty sea air. Snow is not common occurrence in the uk either except for high ground so no I'm not surprised things slow down. I can imagine in your part of the world it does nothing but snow in the winter so it stands to reason you're better prepared. I bet even you'd find it hard to drive a truck uphill on frozen ungritted road with no tyre chains.
its ridiculous to see the drivers have problem om 2 inch snow. and not using the boggie to get more weight on the backwheel.. its those small things that can change if you get stuck or not. and of course.. get better drivers that can handle the truck. they should try to come to norway and learn how to drive in snow. ( northen norway )
I live in Ireland . Snow is not all that common here and in the uk. It stands to reason that a guy from Nothern Norway would be better at driving in the snow. Could you really drive uphill on an ungritted road with no tyre chains?
That's a bit unfair don't you think ? You choose your drivers for the skills they NEED, not every single driving skill in every single vehicle! In Ireland and UK this is extreme conditions for us. If Stobarts only hired drivers who could handle freezing snow and ice conditions that we get once a century or so, way over half their fleet would be sitting with no driver 🤷♀️
@@lellyt2372 when some clowns mentions "northern norway", ignore them. Only thing they know is "cities" with 3 inhabitants, and rotten fish is their main interest.
@@Fcutdlady I live in Canada, a country that, like most Scandinavian countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, gets lots of snow even in far southern parts. The province of Quebec requires most vehicles registered locally to be equipped with snow tires for much of the December-March period. Both my parents put snow tires on their vehicles during the winter months because, well, Toronto, as far south as it is, gets hit during the winter.
It would only make it worse, it just goes to show that you've never driven a class 8 truck. Locking your inter-axle differential and wheel differential along with using lo lo gear is what you need for maximum traction and torque.
to add, how can you get a truck license without knowing how to drive in snow? any Canadian trucker wouldn't have got stuck on that little bit of slushy road
So do we here in North America/US as well, it's called "locking your differential" and in conjunction with "locking the inter-Axle differential" that gives maximum traction to all 4 tandem wheels and it's very useful for deep snow and mud.
I thought Euro trucks were supposed to be so much better then North American trucks? A tandem truck and trademark trailer is only good for 44 ton? With our tandem trailers, we are good for 47 ton. That walking floor would be a 5 axle and would be 70 ton and full to the brim with salt
as most eddy and truck drivers will no driving off without secuering the trailer pin is going to right off the trailer and is a sackable affence. but tell me why is it dixon has done this three times and is still employed by barts. ill tell you why its because he is now a worker or a driver now he is a product of barts. dont get me wonng i would still like to meet the guy with the truck and shake his hand and get my fix with a photo or two.
The Canadian province of Quebec has, for the past few years, required vehicles with local # plates to put snow tires on each axle, from mid-December to mid-March. I can't understand why more jurisdictions, aside from Quebec or a handful of continental European countries, don't require snow tires, for locally-registered vehicles. The UK appears to be one of those countries that doesn't require snow tires, although the snowstorm mentions in the video clearly shows such a law is badly needed. Perhaps had such a law been in place, during that winter, Fiona might not have had so much trouble getting up the slip road.
@@lellyt2372 I live in Canada, a country known for getting lots of snow even in its deep southern parts. The contiguous US gets a mix of weather, with freezing rain not unheard of in some Deep South states. Winter weather is far less common, other than up in the mountains, in much of Florida, California and Hawaii.
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