westerner
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In my time under OSHA and MSHA rules, it still amazes me that UPS has not seen fit, much less be FORCED to equip their trucks with backup alarms.
Shows ya what I know.....
Shows ya what I know.....
Did you ever figure this out? I just bought one. Home projects. And one of the neighbors is complaining already. Haven't found diagram/schematics yet. Don't want to give myself down time by cutting the wrong wire... ThanksMy Deere 310 has a backup alarm. I've given some thought to adding a switch to disconnect it. The noise carries far, and I don't want to **** off the neighbors, especially if I am plowing snow at night or early in the AM. There isn't anyone around when I work, as it's my home, and not a constructions site, so it's probably not necessary. Even so, I think I would be liable if someone got hurt and the alarm was off.
Maybe the answer is to research Massachusetts law to see what's required.
You could apply a piece of gorilla tape to the front to attenuate the volume, it'll still warn anyone within a dozen feet without letting the whole state know.My Deere 310 has a backup alarm. I've given some thought to adding a switch to disconnect it. The noise carries far, and I don't want to **** off the neighbors, especially if I am plowing snow at night or early in the AM. There isn't anyone around when I work, as it's my home, and not a constructions site, so it's probably not necessary. Even so, I think I would be liable if someone got hurt and the alarm was off.
Maybe the answer is to research Massachusetts law to see what's required.
The reason is it is ups policy to sound there horn before the vehicle is set in motion if they do is another storyIn my time under OSHA and MSHA rules, it still amazes me that UPS has not seen fit, much less be FORCED to equip their trucks with backup alarms.
Shows ya what I know.....
Well a few years back my wife's car was hit in the back so apparently brake brake lights don't work either!I know an operator who backed over his very own two year old son with a skid steer, the boy died.
A two year old kid doesn't pay attention to alarms - so they don't work. If I was going disable a backup alarm, I'd add other safety equipment like a remote camera, to counter the loss of safety.
I had a 1989 Dodge Spirit car I'd purchased in 1992 as a bank repossession and my wife drove it. Real scooter with a Turbo II engine, Mopar Performance engine parts and Borla exhaust. That car was better to me than the stock market as it was rear ended five times by different parties and I rebuilt it each time. Finally sold it off with 398,825K on the clock as it was getting rusty. It didn't quite make 400K before the teenager driving it ran into the rear of somebody changing a CD in the dash. I towed it to the local scrapyard.Well a few years back my wife's car was hit in the back so apparently brake brake lights don't work either!
I had the same problem on mondayWell a few years back my wife's car was hit in the back so apparently brake brake lights don't work either!
Those types of BU alarms are mandated on certain large urban construction projects in Toronto. Anything to do with Rail or subways and you must have one of those alarms.
I'll tell you working on a site with 25+ of those alarms going off constantly and you can't tell where one is compared to the other. Totally useless. A flashing strobe would be much more effective.
Every time I back into a parking spot, it seems an idiot or three insists on walking directly behind me as I'm reversing. So many people are simply "switched off".
SWMBO's Toyota Camry has a parking sensor on it that beeps - but it's a beeper in the cabin that warns the driver when the car body is close to anything. No sound outside.
It works to the rear, and to the sides of the rear too.
I don't see why this technology can't be applied to construction equipment.
A guy 6 houses up the street has a Hyundai iLoad van that is a company unit, and it has a loud reversing beeper on it.
So every time he goes for a drive to smoke some weed, we can hear him every single time, about every 2 hrs on average (his wife doesn't let him smoke weed in the house, apparently). Not good for people on shift work wanting to sleep.
Reversing beepers are the most annoying thing ever invented, and a construction site with 10 machines all going backwards and forwards, is just a cacophony of annoying noise.
Interestingly, people on the autism spectrum become quite agitated at the sound of reversing beepers, they have a heightened response to penetrating noises.