Will this go on my CSA?

If your CSA score isnt already too messed up, go to http://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/CompanySnapshot.aspx if the guy you want to work for has more than the average number of OOS trucks or drivers, he is probably going to mess up your CDL.

I hope drivers start educating themselves. This endless revolving door of new drivers is making it hard to make a living doing this.

 

I agree,companies with a bad safety rating will probably mess up your cdl and those companies don't wanna get anything fixed till you get to the yard unless its absolutely undriveable.So you could be driving on bald tires risking a DOT pulling you over because your company wants to save a few bucks getting it fixed.

 

your best bet would be to quit while youre ahead and join w/ an otr training company rather than ruining your record at that company to the point that NOBODY will hire you (except for another fly by night outfit).

 

Its a rock and a hard spot.
Start refusing to drive equipment and report a few companies that fire you for it and word gets around fast. You wind up being black listed and never getting hired anywhere.
Best solution is not take the jobs like that in the first place.
If nobody hires on to drive their junk they will get the message.

 

As a vet in the oilfield business (hauling water and sand to different "fracking" jobs) I can tell you this. These oilfield companies do NOT care whether or not you will drive their POS trucks. If the OP refused to drive the equipment that was he was told to drive, you are right about him being blacklisted and not being able to another job anywhere. That is to say unless he was to go to another state and try there.

The problem is that these trucks were once used OTR, they are NOT designed to be driven on the lease roads going to and coming from the job site.

The roads are rough (making even the most comfortable OTR truck ride like it was on springs instead of airbags) The drivers are required to change shifts every 12 hours, unless (in rare instances) you can sleep in the truck on the staging pad.

Unless the truck is absolutely to the point to where it just can't make another trip, the best thing the OP can do is write up the problem and hope the shop will fix the problem.

My question is does this Sheriff's deputy have the required DOT training to be able to do an inspection of said equipment? Usually they have to result in calling a state trooper to do it.

While driving a truck OTR or in the oilfield is basically the same, the rules are different. Most (I'd be close in saying that 95% of the oilfield companies ) don't require the driver to keep a log book. Most of the jobs are well within the 150 air mile radius that makes them exempt from this law. If they do happen to have to make the driver keep a log book, they are different from the ones you keep on an OTR job. There are five (5) lines instead of four (4) lines and the last line is strictly used for time spent either on the job site or the staging area, and this line does NOT count against your 14 hour clock. Good luck OP.... I wish you luck in your search.

 

Celadon is low down. I hurt myself on home time so my husband called in for me because I was pretty hurt. So I thought everything was cool. I get a phone call from truck recovery asking me where was the truck. I asked why and that's when I found out I was fired. They wasn't going to let me know a word. I had just spoken to dm and the lady never mentioned I was fired. Had been for 2 weeks now. I didn't want to bring truck back to Indiana any way so they did me a favor by coming to get it and did not want to work for them any more either.

 

That's why I'm glad CSA doesn't adhere to my employer. CSA couldn't shut down my employer regardless of how bad they wanted too.

 

Count yourself as lucky.

My first DOT inspection in the great state of Texas, landed me in jail.

Aside from the missing paperwork (all of it)....we won't talk about the smart ### mouth the driver used to have when dealing with LEO.

 

I wouldn't consider myself lucky. Driving for the government has it's perks. No DOT number, no registration, etc. Just a serial number. For this reason, the hiring process is quite immense.

 

The company might get shut down, but will just open back up with a new name on the side of the door. I'll bet it's still hard to close a bad trucking company even with CSA (I still believe that CSA is mostly for the drivers).

The people here talking about the poster checking paperwork and telling the folks at the office that he is not going to do this and that until everything is corrected........LOL, that might work for you at a big company, but the folks at these lousy fly-by-night outfits, and those redneck oilfield outfits will throw you out the front door and wreck your employment record if you don't go with the flow, they might even want to take out back and work you over before they throw you off of the property.