FedEx Freight | Pre Trips And Post Trips
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One of these days... there will be bar codes, in select locations, that will force a walk around in order to complete an inspection.Ever noticed how some drivers at the meet point just get out of their tractor and unhook from the set without even doing post trip? They are always in a big hurry too. gotta go! gotta go!
Wanna bet?
True.
We heard of this from some visiting safety personnel.
Streaker69
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On a trailer, that's the only thing to check. Every night, before I go out, I check the valves on my rear trailer to make sure air is making it back there. Takes 2 seconds . I see guys dragging dollies and trailers all the time because they forget to supply air.
Redracer3136
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Bar codes in “select locations” will only ensure that the drivers walk all the way around the equipment, it still won’t make them do their jobs...it’ll be nothing more than mandated exercise by the company!!
I’m sure they will work just as well and last just as long as the equipment vectors for the handhelds.
Lol
Message from Dispatch:
Can you drive by so-and-so and see if they have a mt at their dock?
Is there a mt pup and gear in the yard of whozits?
Is there an empty 53 in the coop yard with no roof damage?
That’s why we don’t mount the vectors on the roof anymore...
This must be something new , don't recall our trailers having (ITS)
Richard Cranium
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Silly goose, of course they check all those things. There’s a button on the ELD that they push that says they did.
Streaker69
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And that's when they're going to learn. People don't understand that if that truck malfunctions and kills somebody as a result, you're on the hook because you said it was all good.
Dick Dastardly
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Richard Cranium
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Then ignore the conversation.
Bye bye!
Dick Dastardly
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Well excuse me, Sir Richard! Please proceed to tell the rest of us what a superior driver you are. Your soapbox awaits you dear sir!
Richard Cranium
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Which one of us?Well excuse me, Sir Richard! Please proceed to tell the rest of us what a superior driver you are. Your soapbox awaits you dear sir!
Or do you have enough soap boxes for all of us?
Dick Dastardly
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Only one. You'll have to go by seniority.
Worth knowing, YES - all inspection reports will become a matter of public record, in the event of a major accident. See the last link at the bottom. You can view every inspection, on equipment involved. So, we might want to take it seriously...
For example:
NTSB still uncertain of cause of deadly 2014 truck-bus crash involving FedEx Freight
http://www.ccjdigital.com/ntsb-stil...5-18-2015&utm_campaign=CCJ&ust_id=e5b3f91fe5&
"A 2,150-page preliminary investigation into a 2014 truck-motorcoach crash provides the trucker’s breakfast menu but not what may have caused him to cross the interstate median and collide with a bus of high school students."
The reports:
http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=57260&CFID=550717&CFTOKEN=16672425
vongrimmenstein
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I have been retired 3 years now. About 3 years before, VCR'S were no longer required to be filled out by the driver. You still had to do the pre-trip. Since then there usually is no written record of a write up. There would need to be something very obvious to prove the driver did not do a pre-trip. I wish they had retained the mandatory VCR write up. I used to time stamp each VCR I generated. More than once did it save my bacon with management. For a while they would time us on getting out of the yard in 15 minutes or less. I became a target because I went past that time frame. I showed them my VCR'S & then the Federal DOT guideline on what to look for during a pre-trip & the expected time to do it. After a meeting with my steward who backed up my actions, they left me alone. And I always wrote on the VCR 'previous damage all units'. There was not a piece of equipment in our fleet that did not have some damage. Even scratches on the paint I would write up. They try to hang you with damage to equipment, you fight back. von
silent trucker
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Most driver's still don't get it. You punch the button saying you pre-tripped, and then you roll down the highway and something goes wrong, someone dies, and you go to jail for vehicular manslaughter. Welcome to California. Park illegally on the side of the highway to take a nap, some drunk runs into you and gets killed, go to jail for vehicular manslaughter, welcome to California.