ALB DAF movable school
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DAF TRUCKS (GB) LTD is the first DAF subsidiary company to use a new mobile training school built on a semi-trailer chassis at a cost of around £70,000.
The trailer houses all the equipment available in the training school at Marlow and has been used during October to provide on-the-spot service-training for operators at dealers' premises throughout the country, including Harris Commercials at Grays in Essex where CM joined it.
DAF's aim is to bring operators up to date with solutions to current service problems, and the subjects dealt with ranged from the correct way to align a drive line to means of identifying ZF's revised steering boxf (type 8066 replacing 8065). Five or six training periods are undertaken in a day with about 10 participants at each session. The final part of each training session was devoted to instruction on DAF's recommended method of checking a vehicle fitted with an EEC braking system to ensure that the system is correctly connected. Six air gauges are used in a series of checks that take about 15 minutes to complete. Now that flexible brake pipes are used, it is all too easy to re-connect them incorrectly and the only way to be sure they are right is to use the gauges.