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 Previous issues: (ESPAÑOL)

Number 1 / Sep 28, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (1)
  - Using automatic transmissions
  - What is a vehicle policy good for?
Number 2 / Oct 4, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (2)
  - What to do when the engine overheats
  - Evaluate and train drivers
Number 3 / Oct 11, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (1)
  - How to distribute load in trucks
  - The reasons why road research is necessary
Number 4 / Oct 18, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (2)
  - Tips to conserve the battery
  - Auditing vehicles
Number 5 / Oct 25, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (3)
  - How to maintain tires in good conditions?
  - Managing vehicle risk
Number 6 / Nov 1, 2007
  - How we adjust car mirrors?
  - How to prevent the engine from overheating?
  - Accidents study
Number 7 / Nov 8, 2007
  - Precautions when driving at night
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (1)
  - Trip planning, a combining tool
Number 8 / Nov 15, 2007
  - Braking with air brakes
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (2)
  - Repair shop audits
Number 9 / Nov 22, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (1)
  - Tire maintenance (1)
  - 24hs driving safely recording
Number 10 / Nov 29, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (2)
  - Tire maintenance (2)
  - Taking responsibility for the hired driving
Number 11 / Dec 6, 2007
  - Driving when it rains
  - Understanding tire markings
  - Access control
Number 12 / Dec 13, 2007
  - Driving with Anti Lock Braking System
  - Coupling system safety
  - Safe driving, Values and Culture
Number 13 / Dec 21, 2007
  - When it's better to avoid driving?
  - Safety chains for coupling systems
  - Management rules and certification
Number 14 / Dec 27, 2007
  - Overspeed brakes' trailers
  - Air conditioning maintenance
  - Where to start from
Number 15 / May 14, 2008
  - Driving Definition
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 16 / May 28, 2008
  - The Attitude's influence when driving
  - Gear box oil
Number 17 / Jun 11, 2008
  - Driving through curves
  - How to choose the best tires
Number 18 / Jun 25, 2008
  - Anxiety effects in driving
  - Maintained shock absorbers, safety vehicles
Number 19 / Jul 10, 2008
  - Driving backwards
  - Prepare your vehicle for cold weather
Number 20 / Jul 23, 2008
  - Sleeping well, better driving
  - Exhaust fumes colour diagnosis
Number 21 / Aug 6, 2008
  - How to ascend and descend slopes safely
  - The engine cooling system
Number 22 / Aug 20, 2008
  - Dysfunctional beliefs in women and men driving
  - Safe Load in Tank Trucks
Number 23 / Sep 3, 2008
  - Driving in the fog
  - Safe lights
Number 24 / Sep 17, 2008
  - Driving in the fog - Second part
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (1)
Number 25 / Oct 1, 2008
  - Bad habits and their influence in behaviour
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (2)
Number 26 / Oct 15, 2008
  - How we learn to drive
  - Reducing tire air pressure
Number 27 / Oct 29, 2008
  - Crossing junctions
  - Dangerous alterations and modifications on heavy vehicles
Number 28 / Nov 12, 2008
  - Driving and distraction
  - Common transmission failures
Number 29 / Nov 26, 2008
  - Two different ways of understanding "Driving"
  - Safe lights
Number 30 / Dec 10, 2008
  - Preventing distractions
  - Failures easy to be detected
Number 31 / Jan 14, 2009
  - "Accident", its definition
  - Electronic Stability Control
Number 32 / Jan 28, 2009
  - Fatigue, the driving enemy
  - The steering on vehicles
Number 33 / Feb 11, 2009
  - Perceptual phenomena
  - Steering regulation
Number 34 / Feb 25, 2009
  - Car drivers and bikers, an intelligent coexistence
  - Progress in steering systems
Number 35 / Mar 11, 2009
  - Wrong horn usage
  - How the clutch works
Number 36 / 25 Mar, 2009
  - Driving in snowy roads
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 37 / 8 Abr, 2009
  - Understanding signposting
  - Expiring dates
Number 38 / 22 Abr, 2009
  - Rage control
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (1)
Number 39 / 6 May, 2009
  - Can we improve our driving techniques?
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (2)
Number 40 / 20 May, 2009
  - Driving and antidepressants, a dangerous combination
  - Correct 4x4 transmissions usage
Number 41 / 3 Jun, 2009
  - The attention degree can be improved
  - Maintenance: the key to extend the engine's service life
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Info Manejo December 13, 2007
 number 12
We are glad to send you the issue number 12 of INFO MANEJO, where you can learn how to drive with ABS, advices for safety light vehicle coupling systems and

We also invite you to visit our web site where you will find previous INFO MANEJO issues, in their Spanish and English versions.

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    Driving with Anti Lock Braking System
ABS stands for Anti Lock Braking System. Unlike conventional brakes -which, when blocking, steering problems appear-, the ABS is an electronic device that doesn't allow the wheel to stop spinning (blocking), and makes it possible to brake and manoeuvre at the same time, having the car under control.

That is why the ABS brakes help the driver to keep a certain manoeuvre capacity, especially in adverse climatic conditions such as rain, humidity, snow or mud, where the adherence normally diminishes and the wheel blocks, loosing the vehicle's control.

How to use the ABS?

In order to use this type of brakes correctly it's recommendable to apply a constant and regular pressure, without removing the foot from the pedal, i.e. without pumping the brake. Also check the vehicle's manual to learn how to use the ABS efficiently.


Important: The ABS doesn't reduce the vehicle's own distances; it only prevents the wheels from blocking. This allows maintaining the steering control, even in emergency braking (panic stop).

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    Coupling system safety
For light vehicles that transport trailers, the IRAM rules establish different requirements:

+ The trailers must have low beam lights, directional indicators, stop lamps, license plate light, reversing light and hazard flashers.

+ The trailers must be covered by insurance for damages caused to others, transported or not.

+ The coupling system must be anchored in the tractor vehicle by rivets, and not weldered. This last option offers a minimum resistance to the fatigue efforts, plus the heat weakens the materials.

+ Trailers that weigh less than 750 kg can be certified and authorized to circulate without having their own brake system. On the other hand, trailers that exceed the 750 kg must have overspeed or a similar type of brakes to comply with the rules. To know how much a trailer weighs we should add the load weight to the trailer's own weight.

+ The tractor vehicle coupling devices must be removable so they can be separated when they are not connected. This is mandatory.

+ The trailers must have a coupling system and another one for emergency situations -safety chains- in case they uncouple.

Important: The trailers that don't have the passive safety elements and the corresponding authorization can't transport people.

It's important to enquire your insurance company if the trailer is covered under your service. It should be known that they must be standardized and approved to be driven, on the contrary, the in force legal rules -articles 28, 29 section f, 31, 34 and 68 of the law 24.449; and the IRAM rules 110.001, 110.002 y 110.003 will not be complied.

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   Safe driving, Values and Culture
Anyone who has worked in the working activities safety department will agree that cultural aspects influence deeply when executing reducing accidents plans. The vehicles' safety is not far away from this factor. Driving is practised at daily life and is also part of working activities. Normally, we learn to drive before we start working in a post that requires it, thus, this determines the cultural aspects adopted and the preventive safety value.

Our vehicle management could have developed efficient procedures of safety matters, executed innovated technological tools and planned necessary actions to improve the vehicles' use. But all this can't be enough if our drivers are not compromised with the safety duty, not only as a “company's way of working” but also as an own value, where the main favoured is the one that uses the vehicle.

That's why a company working for adopting vehicle safety as a value is the aim to establish it in a cultural way. Within each company's possibility, it should be faced a long term process of awareness and education, which will spread outside the working place, and where governments, companies, workers, families and theme specialists should work together.

As once expressed by a ILO member: "Safety culture is, in part, a matter of resources and technology, but to reach it, it's necessary, especially, an improved information, management and more important ethical rules, that allow facing dangers at work more efficiently, which don't stop being present and incrementing"*

* Dr. Takala, SafeWork Program Director from International Labour Organization, Geneva.


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