Navajo Express, Inc. - Denver, Co.

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  1. Burky

    Burky Road Train Member

    Many years back, when Navajo was first started, the painted hired to do their logo goofed and painted in the blue eyes. It stayed, and for many years the companies logo was "The Route Of The Blue Eyed Indian". They are well aware it's anatomically incorrect, but it's their traditional logo.
     
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  3. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Their trucks aren't in the best of shape either. I seen one on the PA Turnpike last week, pretty ragged out.
     
  4. MAGNOLIA

    MAGNOLIA Bobtail Member

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    I agree..........lol
    Duckie where do you get your smiley's from?
    Thanks in advance
     
  5. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Been wondering that myself...
     
  6. MAGNOLIA

    MAGNOLIA Bobtail Member

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    Navajo has those small KW's T600's I believe they are , they have no room in them.
    Heck hubby had a bad steer tire he went to the TA to have it changed, they had wires coming out of it. Navajo weekend dispatch told TA to turn the Tire around so that you can no longer see the wires coming out of and and let the driver go.
    Real nice don't you think?
     
  7. Tip

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    Come on. The tire had cords showing and the shop just turned the tire inside out? And your husband didn't do anything about it? I would have been on the phone with the DOT and the truck would have sat until the company paid to have a new tire put on. I would have insisted the DOT put it out of service right there in the truckstop.

    A good rule of thumb to follow without compromise is:
    "If the cords are showing, the tire gets changed. The truck sits until that happens."

    Don't be playing around with steering tires that are weak. That's a good way to end up dead.

    I can see it now. I get this done to MY truck, drive out of the lot, hit the interstate and its hot pavement, and the steering tire blows at 65 mph. I lose control, and I, along with maybe many others, die an avoidable death.

    You need to call companies on this sort of thing. And be sure to take plenty of pictures of unsafe equipment. You may need those pictures for evidence in court later.
     
  8. MAGNOLIA

    MAGNOLIA Bobtail Member

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    Come on what?
    My husband refused to go anywhere ,the one's in the shop(at Navajo) refused to authorize a tire change!
    So hubby sat there all day Sunday and on Monday am when the load was due to be deliverd they asked him why he was not there and he told them.
    They told him he should have deliverd the load then got the tired fixed.
    DON'T think so!
    He called safety dept after he spoke to dispatch and they told him to go get the tire changed NOW and they would take care of the rest.
     
  9. Tip

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    "Come on" what? You weren't clear in your post. You left out some things, after all.

    My post really wasn't targeting YOU specifically. It was targeting all Navajo grunts. Insiders at Navajo have obviously been pulling this practice on other drivers in the past, and they tried to pull it on your husband as well. Those drivers "back in the day" allowed those insiders to get away with passing off unsafe directives. And they accepted Navajo's order to just pull the switcheroo when it came to tires. Those guys being yellow-bellied "yes men" are the real reason your husband was asked to do it, and those guys are my real target. If more drivers would use that most-powerful word in the English vocabulary more often (NO), this ridiculous BS wouldn't be happening.

    I was in that boat back in 1996. My company wanted me to take a load from Seattle to Milwaukee with a rig I'd just picked up whose steering was so loose I could barely hold the steering wheel. Obviously that truck had been driven by a yellow-belly immediately before I got it. Of course, the steering was immediately fixed, as I used that powerful word instead of rolling over like a lap dog, subserviently showing my underbelly to the world and driving an usafe truck because I was told to do so by a "desk driver".

    "NO" is one of my favorite words in the English language. It became my one of my favorite words while I was a driver of the trucks, as I had to use it a LOT, thanks to many, many (TOO many) yellow-bellies.
     
  10. MAGNOLIA

    MAGNOLIA Bobtail Member

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    I am just glad my husband finally left that company!
    My husband's blood pressure has even dropped since he left that company.
    I have reported them to DOT on several occasions.
    This is the 5th company my husband has pulled for in the 8 yrs he has been driving, hopefully we won't have to make any more changes for a long time.
    I agree with you that if more drivers learned how to say NO instead of taking the bull from these companies things would change.
    Be safe out there
    Sonya
    Without trucks America stops!
     
  11. Tip

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    Where's your husband now? There's a CCC terminal in Denver. I'd go to that terminal and apply if I were him.
     
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