• @TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
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      41 year ago

      Accidentally leaving your PTO on and accidentally hitting the switch to raise the dump box, and not paying attention and not noticing your box is going up.

      • @mycatiskai
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        31 year ago

        When I am dropping the air out of a tractor to decouple from a trailer the truck alarms to tell me the air is blowing out of the suspension.

        Why don’t these trucks have a warning system like that?

        • @TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
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          31 year ago

          They are supposed to. But I’ve heard from drivers in the dump truck industry that the alarms are often disabled by drivers because “they are annoying”.

          My tractor I can’t dump the airbags if I’m going over 10km/h, can’t release the 5th wheel slider if trailer parking brakes are released, and tons of other safety features.