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Truck Technician
A Truck Technician (also known as a Truck Mechanic or Diesel Mechanic) is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and inspecting trucks and other heavy vehicles. Here are some key duties and responsibilities:
Routine Maintenance: Performing regular maintenance tasks such as oil changes, tire rotations, and brake pad replacements 1.
Diagnostics and Repairs: Diagnosing and repairing mechanical issues with engines, transmissions, and electrical systems using specialized tools and computerized diagnostic equipment 2.
Inspections: Conducting thorough inspections to ensure vehicles are safe and roadworthy 1.
Record Keeping: Maintaining detailed records of each vehicle's maintenance and repair history 1.
Parts Management: Ordering necessary replacement parts and managing inventory 2.
Safety Compliance: Ensuring all repairs and maintenance comply with safety and regulatory standards 1.
Truck Technicians need strong mechanical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work with various diagnostic tools. They often work in different settings, including repair shops, trucking companies, and fleet management organizations 1 2.
Mapperley is a residential and commercial area of north-eastern Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Sherwood to the north-west, Thorneywood to the south and Gedling to the east.
At various periods the terms 'Mapperley' and 'Mapperley Plains' have been applied to lands, on either side of Woodborough Road (B684), from a point at the junction of Mapperley Road, north-east for a distance of some 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km), to that point where the road forks towards Woodborough village. The stretch of Woodborough Road from Mapperley Road to Porchester Road is called 'Mapperley Plains' on Jackson's map of 1851–66, for example.[1][2] This section considers the history of the suburb within the present day city boundary.
The origins of the city of Nottingham suburb called Mapperley seem to be found in the fourteenth century. Writing in the 1670s about lands in the lordship of Basford (i.e. west of present-day Woodborough Road) which were called cornerswong, Dr Robert Thoroton, notes:
In the time of Richard the second (reigned 1377-99), Thomas Mapurley was a considerable man at Nottingham…. He, or his posterity, became possessed of the chiefest part of these grounds, which was the occasion of them being called Maperley's Closes; and since there being a cottage-house or two, and some odd barns erected, it goes for a small Hamlet called Mapurley.[3]
