CSA 2010: How will the Driver Rating System affect you?

Thanks for your post. This is the kind of thing that I have asked DOT about and have yet received an answer.

 

Driving for 35 years, going around scales, over-weight, in a ragged out truck. Nah, I don't buy your post..........
If you did a pretrip, you never would have left on your first run. If you were over-weight, you shouldn't have departed on the run. And running the scales!!!
Or maybe I'm missing something, wouldn't be the first time.

 

yup i made it all up

 

Are you saying you've never left out heavy in a truck that would not pass muster? The're used to not be so many scales and DOT people running around as there are today. The first truck I owned didn't even have working park brakes. You could pull the knob and drive all day long. I've gone for months without logging, driven on expired tags, no permits, overweight, and more.

That's the way is was for alot of O/Os in the 70's and before. Get paid by the 100 weight, load the wagon. Why bother with logs if they are not going to be checked. I don't like driving unsafe trucks, but have sure driven many that would be shut down for various things other than being dangerous.

I know of many drivers whose whole career was done running outlaw. I know one man that bought one tag, made identical serial plates for his four identical trucks, put the tag on one, the registration in another, and photo copies in the other two. He would take expired tags, break them apart just under the bolt holes, and mount that to the bumper looking as if the tag had hung below the bumper and got torn off. He would show the photo copy of his "lost" registration, and declare with suprise that the animal he just hit must have torn off his tag.

I have watched him talk his way out of a jam at a scale house where we were stopped in a truck that had the wrong tag , no registration, no inspection, no logs, truck wouldn't pass inspection in a hundred years, yet we drove off with just a warning. There was a truck broke down a couple hundred miles out, and he pulled this truck off of his farm to go pick it up. It was a mess. He got buy like this for years.

Todays drivers would be amazed at what people got by with many years ago. You could make the arguement that all that caused these rules, and I guess it did. But, I didn't see any more wrecks then than now. The difference in the fatalities between now and then, is everything running now is a conventional, and a much safer truck. If anyone has ever seen a 60's or 70's cabover Freightliner turn over, then you will know why drivers died. These trucks folded up like tin foil.

People that did this grew up around trucks, had driven since their early teens, could almost rebuild their truck on the side of the road, and could compensate for some of the less that perfect things their trucks had.

 

he needs to hook to a cow trailer & find out about running heavy & having to take the scenic route around the scales.

 

naaaaa

he never did

 

Is there an index of companies and their safety record anywhere?

 

The 21st century has arrived. The 1980"s are gone for good. That bull doesn't work anymore. Port hauling pretty much sums it up !!!!

 

Yeah port hauling...now that I see every day. We are about 1/4 mile from the Port of Baltimore and daily you see a non-stop stream of trucks hauling containers FROM the ships.

What that means is that WE aren't sending much out...just getting the stuff in.

Today's interesting load was two extended bed drop low boys hauling two buses. Strange looking things and I did a search on them and they came from Ireland. Irish built subsidiary of Volvo. Go figure that we can't even build buses in this country.

 

Maybe I should move to Ireland and build busses?