One of my new trucks failed a Level 2 today,

I would challenge that, not sure it is even needed with trailer hooked. That is just a bunch of crap.

We got shut down in Oh for a small rust hole smaller than pencil eraser on a brake chamber dust cover.

 

What is a brake champer dust cover>never heard of that before.

 

I like when a driver or owner gets caught, and then blames the cop. reflector are clearly part of the pretrip. You missed it he did not.

 

get a life man the reflector was there just cracked. do you crawl under ur truck with a creeper every single day??? no i didnt think so...but ask dot and they will tell yes u have to. the cop was just looking for something anything to peg the driver/carrier for a POS in my book.

if it's saftey related sure i understand that but a reflector on the back of the truck with a trailer on c'mon thats just BS if i ever saw it

 

I'm sure he means the Brake shoe dust cover and by the way if your going to nit pick someone, how about at least get the spelling correct. Not that I'm the grammar Nazi.

 

stay out here long enough you will get caught up in the dot crap.bubbles...yes I said bubbles on my pitman arm...only in California.I dont go there any more

 

Got wrote up for a light that was working at the start of the DOT inspection, but when he looked again it was out. Guess I should have predicted it during the pretrip.

 

What regulation did he quote? I don't know anything about cracked reflectors? All they mention is where they should be mounted, the viewing angle and illumination. If one has a hairline crack is not going to affect it's performance. If you have reflective tape up there too it should over ride the need of reflex reflectors?

That thingamajig that goes over the thingamajig. Probably the little dust cover on the back of the can where you can install a bolt to hold it open.

 

That was the reason I was stopped once in Arizona, but part of the reflector had fallen off. I always thought it fell under the same category as tractor mudflaps, only necessary when bobtailing.

He also noted they were placed incorrectly. From what I can tell, they are in the same place on every Freightliner Columbia (my truck at the time).