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Tunnel Loader Training Checklist
The checklist (11 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Tunnel Load checklist in the Car wash / Quick auto starter set, filed under Wash, and every item here is editable.
- 1Lined the driver's wheel up with the conveyorCritical
- 2Used the standard hand signals every timeMust pass
- 3Made eye contact with the driver before signaling
- 4Confirmed the car was in neutral before the roller engaged
- 5Hit the emergency stop when something looked wrongCritical
- 6Kept spacing so vehicles never crowdedCritical
- 7Stood outside the conveyor track at all times
- 8Watched the car through the first arches
- 9Pulled vehicles with low clearance or wide tires out of line
- 10Kept the load area clear of hoses and debris
- 11Called the manager to any incident before moving the car
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What usually goes wrong
Three critical items cover alignment, the emergency stop and spacing, and two of them are about stopping the line. The instinct under pressure is to keep the line moving, and every serious tunnel incident starts with someone who did not want to be the reason it paused.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Lined the driver's wheel up with the conveyor
- Hit the emergency stop when something looked wrong
- Kept spacing so vehicles never crowded
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this checklist: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Tunnel Load specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Checklists that pair with this one
Someone trained on this one most often covers these alongside it, which makes them the sensible second checklist to train.
Common questions
Should a new hire ever load the tunnel?
Not unsupervised. It is the position where a mistake damages a customer's vehicle in seconds and cannot be undone, so it should sit behind an explicit sign-off. Whoever happens to be free is the wrong person.
What should be on a tunnel loader checklist?
The 11 items above cover it: lined the driver's wheel up with the conveyor, used the standard hand signals every time, made eye contact with the driver before signaling, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this checklist, 3 items are marked critical: lined the driver's wheel up with the conveyor; hit the emergency stop when something looked wrong; kept spacing so vehicles never crowded. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Tunnel Load checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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