Eckoh when you get a bad trailer do a macro 38 before you hook up to it I picked up one last week that was dameged and before I hooked. To it I sent one in to let them know this also works if you drop one off with a problem.
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Discussion in 'Swift' started by DocWatson, Mar 11, 2015.
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I picked up a trailer once, with no license plate. Sent a message asking what to do , no response. Let's just say the trailer had a plate on it for the trip and no plate on it after delivery lol. Got paid.
I've seen other drivers pick up trailers where 1 or more tandem slide pins would not engage, they made a judgment call after looking at their route with only one weigh station and banking on getting green prepass lights, they got paid rather than lose time getting the junk equipment fixed.
Most of the trailers' registration is soft mush from the rain and will just fall apart when you unfold it during your pretrip. Sent plenty of messages to Permits and/or DM's to fax me a copy to the next truck stop 100 miles down the road and plenty of times, no response. Swift gets a lot of Green lights at weight stations so chance of Level 1-3 are slim.
Bottom line is to protect yourself from the nameless faceless people on the other side of the qualcomm.HousTank Thanks this. -
On the subject of OnRoad and reporting trailer damage for a trailer you are picking up, this system sucks. I can't tell you how many times I call about a trailer's damage that I'm picking up only to hang up about 30 minutes into waiting. I don't have all day to wait for someone to pick up the phone.
They need to come out with a QC macro that we can send to just say "large dent on rear, passenger side" or whatever. CAlling Onroad sometimes is nothing more than a test of patience and the bearer of anxiety.scottied67 and Kindle Thank this. -
And if we were all to call on-road with every trailer dent and scratch, what would that accomplish?
I don't think I pick up any trailer without some kind of damage.
Well, 85-90% or so anyway.
It would tie up the system so that every driver with a 'valid' reason to call on-road had to wait a lot longer.
Or it might prompt the 'thinkers' to implement a new system of reporting trailer damage?
Might it also prompt the programmers and others to allow us more time for a proper pre-trip of the trailers, along with the time to report any damage?
Because they don't.
They try to schedule us to rush to the pick up, rush through the inspections, rush through pre-trips and breaks, rush to the destination and rush to the next pickup.
And rush in any way possible until our hours run out.
I guess it is fortunate that the Mac 9 system allows us to adjust the times to what we feel comfortable with.
I accept very few loads without adding at least a couple hours, just to give myself a little cushion.
If having to wait on hold for on-road eats up that cushion there is always Mac 22.
"And if we were all to call on-road with every trailer dent and scratch, what would that accomplish?"
It would send the entire system into a tizzy.
It would make very many loads late, considering the increased wait times on hold to report a minor and insignificant condition.
But it could only work to our advantage if everyone did it, every single time.DocWatson, HousTank, blsqueak and 1 other person Thank this. -
True. Like everyone else I look to find the newest and best trailer there is when searching for empties. Nothing like getting stuck with that mess of a trailer that is left sitting there in the corner all alone and rejected by every prior driver. I've been lucky lately with the trailers I'm getting but I dread the day when one of those rusted out messes comes into the picture.
I remember during my more rebellious days I would get tired of waiting for OnRoad to pick up the phone just to tell them about a dent, gash or whatever that they might already know about so I would just send in a freeform message stating the damage. No one was too happy about that.
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