Continuous Driving

There is no physical way to inspect a truck completely AND safely for less than 30 minutes. PROPER air tests alone are 15 minutes to fully complete if done correctly.

So anyway you do it, someone is lying in the log.

Post-trip is nothing but completing a REPORT...

So mandating a 15 min pre and post trip is simply a company MANAGEMENT decision again.

There is 30 minutes you can give back to your drivers. Again. A control issue.

 

In a compliance review when they see flagging a PTI(among other things) they start looking at other times more closely.

 

I have had this discussion with the inspector that will do my audits.

I've asked him the same question already. He can't show me the regs either. Even he admits, as you are saying, to them, it's their "redflag" But there is no legal basis for it. It's in their training curriculum.

 

pot kettle

Kettle pot.


Stand up for the company then. Comply with the regs and stop hiding behind "fear" and what ifs. THAT is management's responsibility.

 

well I am sure a one truck operation audit is easier to defend then a multi truck outfit

 

Then admit it for what it is.

YOU control YOUR company as YOU see fit.

stop trying to pass it off as regulations and LEGALLY required when it's not. It's YOUR management and business model. Nothing else.

 

How would you know who the compliance review auditor would be? (unless you mean a state auditor) They are randomly assigned for a compliance review. I'm pretty sure the feds have more than one in MN.

Argue during a compliance review is a futile effort. Argue the findings afterwards.