Vehicle Check
1. Description
The DLRA has an obligation to ensure that only a minimal amount of red dust makes it's way onto the Lake surface.
Also that as much as is possible salt is removed from all vehicles as they are leaving the lake.
To volunteer for this job use the Volunteer Register.
2. Responsibility
It is the responsibility of the vehicle check volunteers to carry out these 2 tasks by monitoring and assisting vehicles as they enter and leave the lake.
3. Duties
Make sure owners of vehicles use the blowers to remove any red dust from on or under their vehicles BEFORE entering the lake.
Make sure owners of vehicles use the brooms to remove any salt from their vehicles BEFORE leaving the lake.
There will be some keep left signs on the road leading up to the check point, this is to help keep the road clear for officials and record run entrants. During peak times (morning) there will be a large queue of cars wanting to get onto the lake, your job is to make sure that no one enters the lake before 7.00am as this is a condition of our lease and in respect to the traditional owners. The only exception will be Officials and Record Run Entrants. These cars should have a Support Vehicle sign in the windscreen and a special Record Run Entrant sign in the windscreen as well.
People will be impaitent especially when the queue is long and everyone will have a special reason why they need to get on urgently. You need to be respectful, but advise them that them talking to you is making the process longer for everyone and unless they have the necessary credentials they just have to wait. If somebody starts to give you a really hard time refer them to the Race Director via Channel 10 on the UHF radio, he will gladly sort them out.
3.1 Volunteer Instructions
On the day of your duty, you report direct to the Lake Entry Checkpoint at the edge of the lake.
Make sure you sign the volunteers book next to your name.
The lake opens at 7.00am, and closes at 7.00pm. Change over time from morning to afternoon shifts is 1.00pm. You must be ready to start your shift at these times.
Make sure you have a hat, sunglasses, sun cream, snacks. Water is provided from the esky at the vehicle check point and there is a portable toilet at the canteen.
Please read this information about avoiding Dehydration and recognising Heat Exhaustion or Heat Stroke.
4. Tasks
3.1 Set Up
At the beginning of Speed Week collect all equipment from the storage containers at the DLRA camp.
3.2 During the event
- Monitor and Instruct vehicle owners use the blowers to remove dust from their vehicles before entering the salt..
- Monitor and Instruct vehicle owners use the brooms provided to remove as much salt as possible from their vehicle before leaving the salt.
3.3 Pack Up
At the conclusion of Speed Week all equipment is to be collected, packed away and returned to the storage containers at the DLRA camp
4. Equipment
- 6 Blowers and a stand
- 10 Brooms
5. Escalation
- For clarification of details during speed week, refer to Event Coordinator.