How many of you do the end of the day post trip?

They retired, 20 years ago. And whoever's left will soon be replaced by a robot.

 

It’s amazing to see how many drivers never open their hood either doing a pre trip or post trip. Over the years I’ve caught several issues by doing a thorough pre/post trip.

 

I drive local within usually 20km of other warehouses, usually it's just in time freight. Load gets ready at 9:00PM and the delivery is at 9:30PM.

If I spent 15 minutes actually pretripping trailers that are not even from my company (power only) . I would be late for all the deliveries.
Usually just check tires, brakes, bogies, rims, lights and I'm out of there.

Running over 160KM I'll check more in-depth though. I usually check my tractor every day (fluids and other things).

 

Everyone at my company does good pre trips , At least the daycab guys because we loose our bonus if there’s a problem . my post trips on truck and trailers are close in detail to my pre trips .Again to cover my own ### . i don’t just go around hitting tires and half ### checking lights . All of our trailers have brake indicators which makes life easy

 

You must be new, that shti's been goin' on for at least about 20 years. The schools are a joke, they only explain the basics, if any. And the examiners are worse, they know less. In BC you don't even need a CLD to examine for it. So we got schools that just money grab, and examiners that don't know any better. Meanwhile the "Trucking Association" is a sham fixed up by the corrupt goberment. It's all a big racket, my friend, welcome to crony capitalism.

 

Made the mistake of hiring a 'qualified' trained driver - let him go on his own to load ... let's just say had to tow loaded trailer out of ditch ... no one harmed thank god... NEVER AGAIN

 

I guess that's one way to verify he's qualified.

 

Be thankful you didn’t get ticketed. Or towed. Or booted. Owners posted no truck parking anymore. Place is a crap hole anyways. I live there, and I won’t even go in there with my personal pickup cuz of how they operate.