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!
True.One of these days... there will be bar codes, in select locations, that will force a walk around in order to complete an inspection.
Wanna bet?
If at a bare minimum you do not check lights, tires, and brakes, it is dangerous.
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!!One of these days... there will be bar codes, in select locations, that will force a walk around in order to complete an inspection.
Wanna bet?
I’m sure they will work just as well and last just as long as the equipment vectors for the handhelds.One of these days... there will be bar codes, in select locations, that will force a walk around in order to complete an inspection.
Wanna bet?
LolI’m sure they will work just as well and last just as long as the equipment vectors for the handhelds.
Is there an empty 53 in the coop yard with no roof damage?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?
That’s why we don’t mount the vectors on the roof anymore...Is there an empty 53 in the coop yard with no roof damage?
If at a bare minimum you do not check lights, tires, and brakes, it is dangerous.
Silly goose, of course they check all those things. There’s a button on the ELD that they push that says they did.If at a bare minimum you do not check lights, tires, and brakes, it is dangerous.
Silly goose, of course they check all those things. There’s a button on the ELD that they push that says they did.
Then ignore the conversation.
Then ignore the conversation.
Bye bye!
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!
Which one of us?
Or do you have enough soap boxes for all of us?
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...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.
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. vonWorth 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