Day by day adventures of a new solo OTR driver

The guy will get a service failure for this most likely. One thing that I don't like though is when drivers go out of their way to destroy another drivers career. Yeah, maybe the guy was a complete jerk for leaving flat tires for the next driver, or flat spotted tires. I've heard drivers state specifically that they've called in and ratted out the other driver. Most of the time it seems like its IC's that are the most hellbent against drivers (the few people I've overheard stating they make sure to get the guy in trouble happened to be IC's)

but you don't know the entire facts. A lot of times these yard dogs at the facilities are the ones that flat spot the tires because they really don't care about someone else's equipment. They don't even bother to release the brakes and they just drag the trailers around the yard. And in regards to flat tires you don't know if the tire went flat after the driver already dropped it. A lot of times the tire won't go flat until it cools off after a long trip. Or if the tire got punctured enroute and slowly went flat over a few hours. By that time the driver is long gone.

In this case the driver obviously screwed the pooch, but why try to get someone fired?

 

who said anything about going out of your way to get another driver fired? If you pick up a trailer with damage you call it in. You would be dumb not to because now you have accepted responsibility if you don't. At that point you leave it up to the powers at be to investigate. If that involves another driver than so be it. That driver may or may not be guilty and if he is and plays ignorant at least he knows he won't be able to get away with it on the future

 

Exactly my point. Report the issue and let the company come to their own conclusions. I'm not saying anyone on here suggested anything I said. All that I'm saying is I have personally overheard conversations in which drivers are hellbent to "teach them a lesson" and when they call in to SEM and their dbl they demand that the previous driver be held accountable for the issues that they left the next driver. There are drivers in our company that are like this, that is all I'm saying.

 

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians in Green Bay

 

i'd never push for somebody to lose a job, but a little bit of their pay for the hassle would be nice.

 

Start putting in applications. You need to find a company that knows how to communicate better

 

Just have your DBL give you extra pay directly from Schneider. You don't have to take the pay from the other guy, Schneider can afford it LOL

If they want to dock him pay or punish him they'll do that separately.

 

Diesel, you have bent over and took it up the ### so much I applaud you for finally standing up. Go get em.

On a better note, I finally got my truck fixed. After the third set of steer tires and the fifth alignment in five months, my truck now rides and drives with no vibration whatsoever. I highly recommend the West Memphis OC shop. The other four OCs I had been to had no clue.