8 replies to this topic

[Statler]

G'day all,
Those bloody reversing beacons are driving me nuts!
I live across the road from a truck driver. Nearly every morning, i get a wake up call around 5-6am.
I've asked the guy to reverse his truck in when he gets home, rather than reverse it out in the morning. All was going well for about a week.....but it seems he has forgotten.
I have considered sneaking over to his house with a pair of wire cutters, & chopping the wiring into pasta! A lack of does funny things to the mind!

I know the mining communities are suffering much worse than me.
Apparently there is a 5:30am symphony of these bloody nusiance things which rattle the whole town.

How come these things dont breech the nusiance noise laws?
Are they really necessary in town?

I'm soooooo tired!

Rant over!

Cheers, Col.

[Rockoz]

Sometimes when you live in a particular community you have to put up with what is considered to be the norm in the area.
Where I grew up there was a couple of coal mines to the east of us, with the associated noise and dust.
To the north was a huge chook farm with its alarms and smells. Also a bike track with its noise and dust on weekends.
To the south was a turkey farm with its particular smell.
The road through town at one stage had more than one heavy truck movement a minute, 24 hours a day.
Its just the stuff you have to live with.

[76lxhatch]

Maybe you could offer to wire up a hidden switch under the dash for him?

[racean69]

I put a switch in my circuit so beeper only gets power when i want.

a mate of mine set his reverse beeper so it only gets power when his flashing beacon is activated... flashing lighhts are mandatory on site.

[enderwigginau]

You are not allowed to have heavy vehicles on a property you cannot drive-in/drive-out of. No reversing allowed.
Specifically because of safety and reversing beepers. Call your council. He'll have to find somewhere else to park.

My old drill rig had a switch to turn it off so I could back out of the yard without it.
When I first took it over I didn't know, and it came back from the lekky twice with a "buzzer works fine mate" til it finally got explained

Grant..

[makka]

tell him to get a volvo, the reverse buzzers on them have a switch from the factory

[Mort]

Col, as Rod said, some of the vehicles at work are wired through the yellow flashing light so when you turn it off (they are not allowed to be on off the work site)it turns the reverse alarm off, maybe you could drop a subtle hit to him about that.


Mort