Checking your refer while off duty

Hmm mine sits outside my bedroom window. I would never get a reset. In fact I spent all morning servicing both trucks and trailers.

 

I ###### sure wouldn't log it as on duty, unless something goes wrong which requires action. You don't go on duty, unless you're an idiot, to take a call/answer a text/qualcom; so why would you think a quick temperature/Fuel check requires on duty?

 

You figure in this day and age, you and your company could monitor a reefer temperature and fuel level from a remote location.

 

Just a question???? If you look at another driver's reefer do you have to log it?

 

Some companies do have that, but it can have faults as well. Before I left Wilson I had a PRIME trailer start throwing low fuel alarms and shutting off in the middle of the night. When I was woke up by the reefer alarm messages I checked the tank and it had more than 3/4 tank. Went through other troubleshooting steps, and at the end of it was simply a bad sensor. Had to get an override code from shop personnel, and could have potentially lost product due to a sensor error.

 

They can... they choose not to.

And why would they choose to invest in the technology to do it when they can get a driver to interrupt their day(s) off to go check on it for free instead?

 

Only if you covet it.

 

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