Maverick Driver general bs thread

You should have immediately gone out and bought a lottery/PowerBall ticket since THAT was your lucky day.

 

Not quite, wasn't as lucky today.

The Colorado DOT officer, when he helped me get my tandems adjusted when this happened, gave me a thumbs up and waved me on when we finally got it right.

As it turns out, Colorado's weight requirements are different, which I did not know. I was legal when I left their station, and was legal all the way through Wyoming. Both of those states apparently allow 36,000 on axles. At the time I thought that I was legal everywhere, since a DOT officer sent me in my way.

That was not the case at the Utah I-84 port of entry. I was still 660 lbs over on my tandems when I went through their station. While very polite, they did give me a written warning for it.

 

"Milk and cookies" might get someone to take a closer look at your logs. Lol. If you didn't get a phone call Friday then yourogs probably were 1. Not audited and or 2. If they were, there were no red flags or blatant viations. I heard from an extremely reliable source 7 drivers fired for blatant logging violations. One said, 13 years with maverick paper or elogs, I' ve had 2 duty status, driving and off duty.? "....good riddance.

Next time you do a load check, park the truck, your duty status will change to on duty. Walk completely around the truck and check the load, get in the truck add remark, "load check" and drive off. Your duty status will go back to drive and your load check will show up under that portion driving. As long as you took less than 5 mins to do it.

40 drivers put on probation as I heard it will all be brought to nlr with a load of lumber, be told to untarp and unsecure it than resecure and retarp it in the 15 minutes they have shown loading or unloading for howeverong whomever chose to do the audit chose to go back. Long story short, for those of you whom are logging blatantly absurd loading and unloading times, ie 15 mins????? Best bump it up a bit.

Post trip inspections see load check paragraph above but after completion of your post trip inspection, change your status to sleeper. Your post trip inspection will still be flagged as being done, just under driving not sleeper. If of course you do it in less than 4 mins.

 

To teach people to type I guess. Lol. Post trip prob not on there to eliminate the possibility of stupid mistake ie logging post trip instead of pre trip. Kinda like the same reason they don't call them steel tarps or lumber tarps anymore. 4 foot drops and 8 foot drops now due to driver pulling onto nlr with pipe load with steel tarps on them only covering a bit over half of the load because product was steel, not lumber........DUH...."tell me bout the rabbits George. Can I pet them and hold them and squeeze them?".

 

Fyi, pollock is home and back to calling people, "in his circle" on a regular basis

 

Glad to hear that he is home and trying to get back to normal as he can. Glad all the prayers from everyone helped.

 

[h=4]Available Positions:[/h]There are currently no dedicated opportunities open, please check back frequently or contact a recruiter today for more information at 1-800-289-1100 .

 

***giggle***

 

Got the call heading to little rock......no wait that wad 3.8 years ago.