different angle from most

If there are four broken crossmembers I'm getting them fixed whether three are adjacent or not. There's the law then there's common sense. Would it hold? Probably. Why chance it though? If something happens it's on you. Would anyone including DOT care that you were legal when you left but a couple more broke going down the road?

 

They like you upstairs because you get the job done and you don't need babysitting.

I've worked for this kind of outfit, and they are bottom feeders. They pay ok but they buy garbage castoffs from other company's and have a overwhelmed maintenance department. Dispatchers that couldn't find their but with both hands, and freight no one else wants. Does that sound about right?

I was working for a place and one of the trailers I was to pick up had no brakes, I mean none. The said well the truck has brakes and the other trailer has brakes, you'll be ok. Yes I would have been right up until I got shot down by dot.

Another time I had a truck with no dash light, they handed me a flash light. And the drivers side door wouldn't open. I say so when I get pulled over for speeding I'm suppose to get out the passenger door and explain this mess to chp? HAHAHAH no. I'll limp in some equipment so as it can get fixed or maybe even fudge a log a little to get the load their, but I'm not picking up something that has a maintenance sticker that's 3 months out of date, or a trailer that 20k over gross.

Ya I wasn't well liked either after flat refusing to drive garbage. I really don't care who likes me, I like being able to get another job.

Time to find another job my friend, it sounds like your to good of a driver to put up with this.

Oh and the management/ ownership is not your friend, they know exactly what's going on, and they don't care as long as the scales are closed.

Get out and good luck.

 

Its your license and your the captain of the ship. I dont care if others will drive it down the road, Im worried about will I drive it down the road. Sounds like they have a very poor maintenance standard and like to "just get by for one more trip" Thats a bad way to do things IMO. Just because 2/32 is legal doesnt mean you should keep on driving like no problem. That means its time to replace those tires and then you can recap them and use as drives or trailer tires. ANY broken crossmembers means "this needs to be adressed now" before it becomes a bigger problem. Yes you have to put some money out up front but it pays off in the long run. I hate seeing trucks and trailers out on the road "just barely legal" as that tells me that they run cheap freight and like to keep things cheap. I like to keep things cheap too but I look at the big picture and what will save me the most money. When you let things go or only half butt fix them the problem just gets bigger and always ends up costing more money

 

Morlen, you might want to consider moving to another company.

I work for a mega.
But one thing even a bottom feeder cares about is safe equipment.

If your company is as bad as it sounds where vehicle safety is concerned, they make Swift look like an angel.

I can count on one hand the times I have had to declare unsafe equipment, in over a year of driving.

I have had to replace a couple lights, 1 trailer had a hole in the floor, and I had a trailer with thin brakes.
But that is all I can remember in the past 15 months.


If you don't get out of there you are setting yourself up for something bad to happen.

 

No it's not to much to ask that equipment is up to snuff.

Time to find another outfit, your not going to change things.

 

This explains it all to me....if corporate knows there is a problem with "management" they should doing their job to ensure that their is compliance within the company. IE: The owner of the company does not like the job a manager is doing, the owner steps in and does the job until a suitable person can be hired to do it and trained on how to handle thing properly.

 

I have 20 years of accident free ticket free driving and I am the first to admit that there is such a thing as going overboard on safety.

There I said it.

 

I wasn't commenting on what you or I would get fixed, rather what would place the vehicle OOS. For instance if there was a broken crossmember on the left front of the trailer, one broken on the right center of the trailerand one on the left rear, I would like them all replaced, but they would not put the trailer OOS. Heck, if there was only one broke crossmember, I would cause it to be repaired, but I certainly should not raise hell with the company and state it is an OOS defect when it isn't, and then attempt to put myself on a pedistal and criticize others for not doing the same.

Best regards