With the new CSA laws.

Companies have always fired drivers for too many accidents, tickets, log violations and OOS's. CSA just puts a new name to it.

Regarding pulling individual CDLs, our good buddy Mr. LaHood has already indicated that is his goal. Luckily, there are still a few barriers in place preventing the federal guv'mint from exercising that kind of power over individuals.

 

Our company would NOT hire a decent log auditor. Every few months, we would get a notice of missing logs. Drivers never received notes for form violations. They would just be told they had missing logs for nine months back. WHAT!!!???!!!

New log auditor. Happens every three months. We fax in the logs(yes, I keep all logs), only to be told they are incorrect. It's always about time off and the new auditor wants logs filled out backwards. After they're on the job for 3 months, they want the past 6 months corrected. Then, we get a new log auditor, who can't read logs, and the process repeats.

The COMPANY was audited in September. We received a letter with dates of log errors and comments. HELL YES!!!!

After arguing with the latest log auditor making minimum wage and getting nowhere; the feds step in and force this company to do the right thing.

When we have feedback, we can fix it. About friggin' time!

 

Again, it's been a YEAR of CSA2010. How is your income doing with all those "bad apples" gone, huh? Shooting through the roof, your phone doesn't stop ringing with all those hard to beat offers? Maybe you can afford a dentist to fix 24 remaining rotten teeth in your mouth at last? One thing for sure, lots of the formerly closed weigh stations are doing inspections round the clock (or close to that), the business must be really good for somebody to justify that.

Honestly, I'm not even sure if people who preach "every day showering" and "doing right things" driven a truck or they just read and BS a lot. If I'm not parked overnight for at least 2-3 nights at a customer for my break, I'll not make (legally) my scheduled runs (and anything illegal is not an option), I'll not make even remotely reasonable paycheck, I'll not make my bosses happy with my sanitized smell, and after a week or two of showering every day, I'll join the rest of the super-truckers finding time for 7000 posts between multiple showers. Stopping at a truck stop for a shower and meal with 14 hours clock ticking, are you serious, who can afford that, not me, I must put in 14 hours with a few tiny breaks for 5 days in row. Fixing things ASAP? Recent example, upper left corner trailer marker light went out, it's a rare light and even big shops don't have it in stock. What would a "by the book" guy do? Park a rig and insist on the light being ordered and fedexed ASAP? Try it and tell me how that worked for ya, include lost wages per light, try "by the book thing" a few lights in row and tell us how many lights it would take to get a kick in the butt.

Unfortunately CSA does NOTHING to alleviate sweatshop conditions under which most of the truckers work (it's the root of all trucking evils), it just makes sweatshop conditions worse by super-enforcing substitution of common sense with a bunch of dry regulations that makes lots of sense on the paper and little on the road.

 

Good deal on that! They probably got schooled on auditing the logs.

Minimum wage schleps are not the ones to have auditing logs. It's not an entry level job,that's for certain.

 

Sweatshop conditions ? Most truckers ? I disagree . If you think air ride tractors with air seats , p/s , a/c , cruise control , and all the other luxuries are sweatshop I'd like to see what you'd call what drivers were doing when they had none of that or no smooth interstates .
If you're talking about loading/unloading , with the exception of flatbed you shouldn't be dealing with that if you have any experience .