I was assigned another truck and found it in horrible condition and dirty as h*** so as with every truck i go through it and get it and fixed up shiny and smelling...like smoke inside lol
One problem i noticed right away was excessive play in the front end, im talking 'OMG that trucker must be drunk' zigzaging allover the road loose, so i brought it in to the ATL shop twice without result...
They told me there was nothing wrong with it as if i was an idiot, the second time they didnt even want to look at it telling me 'we heard that one before' but they did check it after i insisted and they held my truck there for days only to do a shade tree alignment with a measuring tape!!! Neither time did they find the cause of the excessive play or even verified that there was excessive play and treated me like i was stupid and full of it
Im no Einstein but i did take 2 years of full time classes in auto mechanics and am ASE certified....
SO i brought this truck to every shop i laid over at with a near identical write up in the hope to get it fixed with the same complaint.
This time in CLT i wrote:' excessive play in steering- maybe gearbox needs adjustment'
Guess what- clt shop found the ORIGINAL steering gear box to have excessive play and since these cant be adjusted -must be replaced! Hallelujah!!!
ATL shop thinks theyre all that but for diagnostics- PAH! I could really let off a rant here because i was forced to drive a truck i knew had a front end problems apart from another dot violation ATL WROTE FIXED ON THE VCR BUT DID NOTHING. Also when the do fix something half the time they do not leave a vcr in the truck so i know if and what was done so that i can check during my pretrip. And if i dare bother them to ask what they found and repaired i get short replies and odd looks as they walk away from me.
Something has to get better there. Also i think there needs to be a system implemented where drivers notes can be tracked and revieved by drivers+ management and somehow get drivers to be more ontop of getting trucks fixed even if they are not thier assigned units. I can hardly believe some of the things i found on trucks and trailers on the ready line.:TR10driving03:
But ill be nice and not get too critical in an public setting.
One problem i noticed right away was excessive play in the front end, im talking 'OMG that trucker must be drunk' zigzaging allover the road loose, so i brought it in to the ATL shop twice without result...
They told me there was nothing wrong with it as if i was an idiot, the second time they didnt even want to look at it telling me 'we heard that one before' but they did check it after i insisted and they held my truck there for days only to do a shade tree alignment with a measuring tape!!! Neither time did they find the cause of the excessive play or even verified that there was excessive play and treated me like i was stupid and full of it
Im no Einstein but i did take 2 years of full time classes in auto mechanics and am ASE certified....
SO i brought this truck to every shop i laid over at with a near identical write up in the hope to get it fixed with the same complaint.
This time in CLT i wrote:' excessive play in steering- maybe gearbox needs adjustment'
Guess what- clt shop found the ORIGINAL steering gear box to have excessive play and since these cant be adjusted -must be replaced! Hallelujah!!!
ATL shop thinks theyre all that but for diagnostics- PAH! I could really let off a rant here because i was forced to drive a truck i knew had a front end problems apart from another dot violation ATL WROTE FIXED ON THE VCR BUT DID NOTHING. Also when the do fix something half the time they do not leave a vcr in the truck so i know if and what was done so that i can check during my pretrip. And if i dare bother them to ask what they found and repaired i get short replies and odd looks as they walk away from me.
Something has to get better there. Also i think there needs to be a system implemented where drivers notes can be tracked and revieved by drivers+ management and somehow get drivers to be more ontop of getting trucks fixed even if they are not thier assigned units. I can hardly believe some of the things i found on trucks and trailers on the ready line.:TR10driving03:
But ill be nice and not get too critical in an public setting.