Why is it that when the truck breaks they always think it is the driver fault?

i always blame the driver of my truck for things going wrong

 

I truck with that many miles is going to have problems......no way around it.
I would be really pissed if i were in your shoes and getting blamed for breakdowns on that high mileage of a rig.
Someone would get an ear full right back at them or i would be cleaning my stuff out of the truck.

 

nope. not everywhere. not anywhere that ive worked. ive never been blamed for a mechanical issue with the truck i drove, even when i had very little experience and probably contributed to problems. guess ive been blessed in general...the mechanical issues ive had have been few and far between.

but the answer is a resounding no. and as an aside, you should not feel like you HAVE to take the crap they are giving out. you dont say how much experience you have, but id be looking for a new company if i were you, or at least counting the days until i had 6 months experience. and go with a company that has equipment that isnt so old.

not sure where to go, but you can look at your company's csa score...id be real interested in seeing the equipment portion of that score.

 

Not to say You are at fault, but everything you described looks to me as driver abuse. Too little experience taking off with loaded trucks. It is time for a trip with an exprienced co-driver to assess what is happening. Then fault can be laid at someone's feet.

 

The problem is a drive line.. If I had a driver call me and told me that both yokes had snapped and I am 400 miles away.. I am going to think you popped the clutch with a heavy load on it.. Am I right I don't know.. but it is costing me an arm and a leg to get it going.. Not saying it is your fault but most of this is driver error type stuff.. Maybe not yours but it could be the previous driver.. The u joints though come on you should have felt that, heard a grinding sound... something..

 

ell... i wouldn't worry tooo much about. as long as they are paying for it to get fixed, they can ##### all they want. you can always find another job.

 

an old trucker once told me ( you can buy the finest equipment money can buy and the first thing a driver does is tear it up) i thought it was bs 40 years ago and i think its bs now. sure your are going to have equipment broken by drivers but that is just part of doing business. i had a friend years ago was driving a old kw with a 335 cummins motor with almost a million miles with just a bearing roll over at 600000 miles. a main bearing let loose and the butthead owner said he ruined the motor. if he would have overhauled the motor rather than just rolled the bearings never would have happened. its easy to blame the driver for something you should have taken care of. we have a lot of good young drivers out there and they dont deserve the crap some of these fleet owners put out.