seriously?

Hold on a second everyone!!

Why is this even an issue?

This is a sounding like Dime Novel about how to raise and discipline chiuldren....


For Cryin out loud, If something broke on your truck...Why are you even INVOLVING or Notifying Anyone ?

As If you folks need guidance or someone holding your hand on What to do next....

You Own The Truck, Something Breaks,You Fix it..Simple, It doesnt have to turn into a 4 party notification Including the DOT..


You Own your Car right?..If the Transmission Breaks or your Ball Joint breaks...Are you Notifying the Cops that You will be making a Repair on it??



lets Get it together people.....Its Called Responsibilty,Accountability and Taking Care of your Own Business

 

Under 396.11(2). Does it affect the safe operation of the vehicle? If the batteries are charged it will run everything for hours, more than enough to get to a shop.
Could it result in a mechanical breakdown? That could be open to speculation.

 

Here's my approach, on not-routine maintenance that I do myself:

1. Fix it.
2. File the receipts AT THE HOUSE for tax purposes. Don't keep them on the truck, waiting for officer friendly to spot them.
3. Drive on.

Sometimes there is such a thing as providing too much information. If everyone who owned their own truck logged all the hours wrenching on them, we'd have really short work weeks at times. It's just silliness to log changing a tensioner. Do you log washing the truck too? That takes longer.

 

I would have done my repair while I was off duty, just as I have always done. when one is repairing his own vehicle he isn't on duty, same as when on personal conveyance.

I also would not have noted it, especially when the system they have set up provides no way of noting the repair has been made.

I would think part of the problem would lie in the mega carrier mentality of covenant, where it is an unusual thing for someone there to actually own his or her own truck, and also have the mental and physical ability to actually turn a wrench themselves.


its like a few weeks ago at the t/a near Tuscaloosa,al, I went in to buy a serpentine belt for my caterpillar, the guy says it will be 4 hours before I can get you in shop, I said I don't need the shop, I just need to purchase a belt, he again said it would be 4 hours. it took 20 more minutes of this before I could simply purchase a belt, and 10 minutes to remove the a/c belt and broken belt and 10 more mintues to install the new belt and replace my a/c belt.

it was like the guy couldn't conceive that someone could actually replace a belt himself.

 

That's right before the cashier gets that blank look when you purchase the item or service and there's no need to call anyone for a PO or approval. Takes a minute to sink in that it's the CEO standing right in front of them paying the bill on the spot. Approved. Receipt, please.

 

I always log pm's where I change the oil and filters on line 4. Because I use a paint pen to note the miles/date on the filters when I do it. So if iI get inspected 4 days after that, then they look to see where i was at 4 days ago (home), when the pm date is there for them to see.. ..they cannot get me for falsification. Going to grease only the truck today. That won't get logged.

 

do you put your name on the filter or something? you simply don't have to log on duty when you work on your own truck.

 

Qualcom is also the issue once the truck moves to the repair shop. Since the 14 hour clock has started, why not log on duty?

 

it wont necessarily start the 14 hour clock for a owner op, you can do personal conveyance, even with a quallcomm if its set up that way. and the reason not, is simply because it isn't necessary to do so.