Warning from DOT/Shotty company equipment/Need advice

You can't fight a warning ticket, sometimes that's why they write them it'll stay on your psp for 3 years but it won't effect you getting another job. Is it the awesome pay that keeps you there.

 

You deserve an inspection and a ticket if any of that's true. This is why we get inspected and dinged so much in this industry.

 

Shouldn’t there be a safety chain of sorts on that lift gate to hold it up in case of a failure like this?

 

The driver is as much alike as the company as the company alike as drivers they have... just don't care. Why bother?

 

If its piston seals that have failed the cylinder really can only drift outwards. There's more volume of oil in the barrel end because of the space taken up by the cylinder rod on the other end. The oil cannot physically fit into that smaller space so it can't drift inwards.

Now if there's an internal leak in the control valve or something like that then it is possible for it to drift in either direction since the oil is leaking back to the reservoir and isn't isolated to just the cylinder.

 

I'd say it's a 99% chance it's on your PSP. I worked a job where they didn't give a rats ### about the DOT. Got the PSP records to show it too. I quit and you should as well. It's going to bite you in the ###. Depending on how much of a ####head the DOT guy was it could be really bad and since it's a warning you can't do anything about it. If he wrote it up as unsecured load or something that might really hurt your chances with how crap the job market is right now.

Give it 30 days and pull a PSP. Also I'm not sure OP would have been able to lock the lift gate even if the lock worked. If the cylinder blows it's not coming back up to lock it in the first place. It's just stuck down there. At least any lift gate I've run. You can fold it but the thing will still drag.

I'd have parked it, told the boss to come get it and uber'd to my car and went home if it's a crappy company.