Pre-trip & Post-trip reports

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by LogsRus, Oct 12, 2007.

Do you do the pre-trip or post-trip in writting?

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    Does your company require you to fill out the pre-trip inspection form (DDVIR) in writting or see 2

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    Does your company require you to do the post-trip inspection form(DDVIR) in writting

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  1. LogsRus

    LogsRus Log it Legal

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    One of you need to do a pre-trip before getting behind the wheel and one of you need to do a post-trip at the end of the day. Since the truck is always moving I am not sure when the end would be :biggrin_2554:

    I require my teams to both do a pre & post because I don't want drivers relying on their co-driver to make sure the equipment is safet. What if he is down and out and could care less about life and you ticked him off? So there you have it. It does happen you know :biggrin_25510:
     
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  3. LogsRus

    LogsRus Log it Legal

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    Your company should be having you fill out the post-trip in writting. If they are having you do the pre-trip in writting you might tell them to check the Federal Regulations book again. I forget the # of the reg but I have posted it around here somewhere.
     
  4. notarps4me

    notarps4me Road Train Member

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    Hey brick, if you show the sleeper and keep in mind a split has to be a 8-2 now. It can raise some flags when they see several time lines on line 2. I do line 1 the nun ya line. What I do off duty is my biz and not the companies.
     
  5. Rodeo_Joe

    Rodeo_Joe Light Load Member

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    k... then why do they require me to do a full pre-trip inspection before i drove in my drive test 10 yrs ago to get my AZ if i dont need to do it till after. I've done that an no post trip for 10 yrs with no problem, I was listenin to a cop on that trucker channel on XM the other day an he said a post is required too so thats why im lookin here......??
     
  6. Lurchgs

    Lurchgs Road Train Member

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    ok..I've come forth before in favor of doing the post-trip. The other day, here in Denver, I saw a very good example of why a driver should complete one.

    It has nothing to do with logs.. but the safe operation of the vehicle.

    Driver was tired, so pulled into a yard for a bit of snooze before delivery time. Yard is essentially on recipients property, so no biggie on drive time.

    He pulled in at about 04:30 or so (I wasn't there) and backed neatly into a slot.

    I don't know if he was new and unfamiliar with the yard or WAS familiar and just mis-judged.. but he did NOT do a post-trip. Not even a walk around.

    If he had, he'd have easily recognized that he'd parked with the last 4-5 feet of his trailer overhanging a railroad line.

    Yup. Since that stretch of the UP is moderately busy, it wasn't long before a big honkin' locomotive - at the head of a mile of coal cars - came trundling through and munched the hell out of his trailer.

    Nobody was hurt, and of course the locomotive was essentially undamaged. But the crash did shut down one of the main street-level arteries in the vicinity for a number of hours.

    and it all would have been avoided if the driver had simply taken 90 seconds to do a simple post-trip.

    Of course this is rather extreme an example. The point is, of course, that without a simple post-trip, you never know what could happen.
     
  7. Rodeo_Joe

    Rodeo_Joe Light Load Member

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    Wow!! Thats Alwsome!..............ah opps??:biggrin_2551:
     
  8. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    So THAT is "the rest of the story"?????????


    That sure makes a lot more sense than 9news explanation of it. Also makes more sense
    with the pics they had online too.
     
  9. ChromeDome

    ChromeDome Road Train Member

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    Another example of that same idea.
    I was at a Petro in VA on Friday night.
    I parked next to a Werner truck that seemed to be backed in rather far, and slightly down the slope.
    I did not think much of it at night. It was dark but I did a walk around on my truck.
    When I got up in the morning and did my pretrip I looked at his trailer again. I knew he was backed well past a concrete divider that had been knocked over. And I saw something odd under his bumper.
    When I looked closer I saw that he had backed completely over a large power box for the TS.
    I am not sure if it had been broken off before or if he had just done it. But it was pushed back almost 3 feet. Leaning badly and against his trailer bumper. I could not believe there was still power in the lot. It was damaged bad.
    Needless to say, I did not lean on or touch his trailer.
     
  10. jeff1200

    jeff1200 Light Load Member

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    When backing into a spot day or night, I get out and look at the rear of the trailer and where I'm backing. As for logging pre/post trip regs state a driveaway/towaway operation requires both. Otherwise only one is needed. Me I do a walkaround at night while everything is still warm feeling tires,hubs, checking lights. In the morning I pull the hood and check fluid levels as they have had all night to sit, and recheck tires as one could have gone flat during the night. That's just my 2 cents
     
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  11. Scuby

    Scuby Heavy Load Member

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    LogsRUS 2 things. First isn't waiting for a truck repair consider onduty not driving since the driver signs the paperwork when the repair shop is finish if the repairs aren't done at a comapny terminal. Second if not what if it takes 4 or 5 hours to repair. That means the driver is only getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Is that safe? BTW I do a thorough pretrip and check my truck whenever I make a pit stop.
     
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