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Tunnel Loader Training Checklist
The checklist (4 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Tunnel Load station in the Car wash / Quick auto starter set, filed under Wash, and every item here is editable.
- 1Loaded and aligned the vehicle correctlyCritical
- 2Gave clear, consistent hand signals to the driverMust pass
- 3Stopped the belt immediately when something looked wrongCritical
- 4Kept spacing so vehicles never crowdedCritical
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What usually goes wrong
Three critical items and all of them are about stopping rather than proceeding. 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
- Loaded and aligned the vehicle correctly
- Stopped the belt immediately when something looked wrong
- Kept spacing so vehicles never crowded
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: 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.
Stations that pair with this one
These are the stations someone on this one most often covers 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 station where a mistake damages a customer's vehicle in seconds and cannot be undone, so it should sit behind an explicit sign-off rather than being covered by whoever is available.
What should be on a tunnel loader checklist?
The 4 items above cover it: loaded and aligned the vehicle correctly, gave clear, consistent hand signals to the driver, stopped the belt immediately when something looked wrong, 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 station, 3 items are marked critical: loaded and aligned the vehicle correctly; stopped the belt immediately 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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