Re: Crop Assurance -- What happened?


"Stephen Temple" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim Webster wrote:
>
> >
> > I learned to reverse on tractors without cabs, so rarely feel
comfortable
> > relying on mirrors. I have done it with cattle lorries and same but I
have
> > great respect for those who do back artics etc just on mirrors
>
> To go into quarries with our lorries, we now have to have CCTV
> cameras on the back of the trailer, with a monitor in the cab.

Our last major building project, we used to dread quarry drivers arriving
with stone, because they only ever went from one bit of the quarry to
another, and some of them couldn't reverse in tricky conditions, whereas the
ordinary haulage company drivers had no trouble in our yard.
--

Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result



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