I was sitting at this new job the other day and was watching some of the other drivers come and go, and was kinda shocked to see how many guys do the 2 second pre/post trip..
How many of you guys drain your air tanks at the end of the day... check your pushrod stroke.. tighten your brakes up... check your tire pressure... check your fluids...
I'm not saying I do all that EVERY single day (on my truck) but I switch trailers regularly so I'm always pulling on the slacks and tightening them up, replacing lights and filling up tires... I've only been at this place a couple weeks, but ####... Where are all the real truckers at?
How many of you do the end of the day post trip?
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They retired, 20 years ago. And whoever's left will soon be replaced by a robot.
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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.
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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).BigHossVolvo Thanks this. -
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
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I got out and guided him and gave him some pointers. Once he was backed in he asked me about an air leak that was coming from his drives. The kid had no idea what a brake chamber or a slack adjuster even was... I'm not even kidding. How is this f'n possible? They need to start checking over these idiots who are rolling trucks, go find out who the person was that road tested them, and go after them. This is getting way out of hand.AModelCat, runningman0661, Pamela1990 and 2 others Thank this. -
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