United Rentals Etiquette

^^^eeesh...well i guess your days are limited, right? guys like us dont compromise past a certain point!!
You keep haulin and not loosing crap on the road...we find a boss that appreciates it!!!

 

Yep, better the chains or straps on the ld. than in the headache rack and the ld. sitting in the ditch

 

Its a DOT requirement for all buckets and booms/attachments to be chained or strapped. Rumor has it DOT is changing the regs to strictly chains, no straps.

The original posts had me laughing. We all go through it. I was unloading new CAT skid steers several months ago. The guy asked me if I knew how to drive one. I said sure, and I do. 10 minutes later he comes out and says, "I thought you knew how to drive one? " I do. I just can't find the darn parking brake on this thing. ..lol A light on the console over your head is not a button. Lol

 

It took me a year to remember you could toggle a backhoe to run kike an excavator. Another year to figure out before you restart some skid steers, you got to unbuckle and rebuke the sear belt.

Some brooms, you got to press the throttle to start. Other machines, you got to pull the key out just a hair to line the pins right before it will start. 1

I debated starting a log of tricks to what machine one time until I got started and I hauled some machines so rarely that my log wasn't on my logbook from this month.

So I just have a routine now where I go through my keyring 3 times with all the tricks for each key before I call for help

 

Liifting the machine with the boom will ruin the boom basket pins or jib pins if while moving the axles don't retract use a 4x4 put it in front of the axle giving you problem and run over it t h at will get in to sick in you need to make sure your house and wheels are in the right orientation or half the axles will go in

 

Ur in Charlotte has a yard man that will load. Sometime it's faster to load yourself. Oh and it's a tight fit there. Or was about two weeks ago.

 

Sorry if it's been covered already but I use to work/drive for Sunstate Equipment and we always loaded or unloaded the equipment for OTR guys or other trucking companies because we did it all of the time and knew how. If none of us drivers were in the yard our mechanics new how to load also.

 

In my opinion if your going to haul a load, you should know how to operate the machine or atleast figure it out. See it all the time at ports, guys asking other drivers or dock workers to load them.

 

I'll give guys a pass on that Euro junk. I can't figure out half that stuff. Usually have to spend 20 minutes reading the manual (which is usually roughly translated from French or German) just to get the thing to move lol.