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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 October 29, 2008
 number 27
We are glad to send you the 27th INFO MANEJO's issue. Today you will learn about the dangerous modifications to heavy vehicles and on how to cross joints safely.

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

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    Crossing junctions
How to cross safely?

Crossing junctions is one of the main collision causes. Here some recommendations to cross safely:

At joints, where all streets or none have a STOP sign, the vehicle that arrives first will cross first, or the driver gives way to the vehicle on his right, only when this arrives first or at the same time.

Law does not give the right to first cross a joint, it just simply indicates who should give way, however, regardless of this indication and although having the crossing priority, the driver must avoid any possible crash.

The intelligent driver is trained under prevention and understands that is best to avoid an accident than to comply with his right, and for this reason:

+ He must not overtake in bends nor pass the vehicles that have stopped to give way to other vehicles or pedestrian.

+ In two way streets, we should stop; look first to the right, then to the left and move forward if crossing safely is guaranteed.

+ Maximize precaution and diminish speed even more if the corner visibility conditions are reduced by a badly parked vehicle or other obstruction.

+ Brake before reaching corners and do not brake in the corners. Arrive at the junction knowing all the options, the right speed and gear change, and with two options: either brake, or if it is necessary stop, or accelerate, if it is possible.

+ Be aware that at joints a vehicle might be coming from the wrong way.

+ Make sure you have a strategy planed in advance.

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    Dangerous alterations and modifications on heavy vehicles
Nowadays, heavy vehicles, specially tractor or chassis present added axis. The causes are a lack of control, breaking the in force legal rules, that clearly prohibit all kinds of modifications without body or repair shop' authorizations.

It is clearly warned the modifications or alterations prohibitions for:

+   Chassis
+   Axis
+   Suspension systems
+   Brake systems
+   Steering systems
+   Coupling systems
+   Dimensions, among others

This kind of alterations must be performed under strict quality and safety regulations, which can be only certified for its latter approval by repair and body shops, which must be authorized by the heavy vehicles' manufacturers and by these activities regulating bodies. It is necessary to consult at the official dealer about this subject. On the other hand, apart from safety and legal issues, we must check that covering and the insurances and guarantees are not lost when performing vehicle modifications.

This kind of adaptations modify the load structures and their resistance, besides, and always in a negative way, the original braking capacity, the steering geometry, traction, weigh transference when braking, curve driving and a long list of critic aspects, which can not be simply modified.

During the accidents' theoretical analysis, where heavy vehicles (trucks) are involved, it is detected that it is increasing the lack of control due to a human fault, what is more, the lack of stability in braking or the absence of steering in emergency maneuvers, contribute to controlling the vehicle chaos. These and other situations are clearly aided by the gravity centers' variation and other matters that are related to the original vehicle designs.

When it is about trailers or semis, although they apply to what said before, they must be considered as an important part of the vehicle whole, and not separated as it normally happens. When the vehicle moves it does it all together and all the gravity forces will gravitate on both vehicles. For the tractor vehicle there will be more disadvantages as it has to administrate a considerable forces percentage that go with the trailer during braking, curves and other difficult situations.


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