Pre Trip Inspection Cards

This is a joke right>

 

When you do your pretrip & post trip inspections, you are looking for defects or deficiencies in the vehicle which would be likely to affect the safety of it's operation or could result in a mechanical breakdown.

If you find such a defect or deficiency, you should not drive the vehicle farther than absolutely necessary to have the defects or deficiencies repaired.

If the shop does not want to fix it, it does not change the fact that YOU are ultimately responsible for the vehicle you are driving if you decide to roll out with it anyway. The mechanic who was "too busy" isn't going to get the ticket, YOU are.

 

Its sucks as a driver cause if you refuse to drive the truck. dispatch just gonna sent yu home now your not making no money for the day. den wat another job? not alot of jobs are hiring.

 

Its your butt if you drive that POS down the road!!! You may not have to pay the ticket but you will most certainly get the points! If this is the way your company runs then I would advise looking for another job. Your license is your bread and butter so protect it as best you can. As long as you have it you can get a job anywhere.

 

New company time. We gripe at our yard because we usually wait a full day before we get our truck back if we go to the yard. However, it will not leave the yard without a full inspection. Many times the mechanics find items I have missed and I am glad they did. Got stopped at 0300 this morning at the weigh station in Spokane and they did a complete inspection of truck, trailer and all my paperwork including logs. Passed, no violations found.

 

In my opinion, CSA 2010 gives the driver the right to say no. Do you want to get X amount of points because your mechanic can't get a tail light fixed (if you can't do it yourself), or fix a leaky glad-hand? It's a double edged sword. Public safety was the main purpose for the point system. To have a safe public, drivers have to do their part and if you aren't comfortable driving with that sloppy fifth-wheel or blown wheel seal then don't. It's your right.

 

all of those examples YOU can take care of yourself

a good DRIVER does not need a speed-o-meter, that's what the rev counter is for

55 @ 15k


brake shoes missing, drums broken, wheel seals leaking, NO air, door welded shut


the question to ask is who washes the truck

 

Whom turns the key again?


It's that simple, always has been always will be.

 

Not even CLOSE to being true. It might work out that way on the truck YOU are driving, but if the truck HE is driving has a different final drive ratio in the transmission, a different rear end gear ratio, or a different tire size, the RPM's at 55 mph will NOT be 15K.

The tachometer measures ENGINE speed. The speedometer measures ROAD speed. Until you are familiar enough with a particular truck to know where the tachometer typically is at a given road speed in a specific gear, it is impossible to have an accurate estimation of speed based solely upon the tach.

For what it's worth, 1500 RPM in top gear puts me at 66 mph. Only when I split down to 17th gear will 1500 RPM have me anywhere close to 55 mph.