Trans Am Still

Also, this is coming up -

Brake Safety Week: September 6-12, 2015
Properly functioning brake systems are crucial to safe commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operation. CMV brakes are designed to hold up under tough conditions, but they must be inspected and maintained carefully and consistently so they operate and perform properly throughout the vehicle’s life. Brake Safety Week is an annual outreach and enforcement campaign designed to improve commercial vehicle brake safety throughout North America.

Brake Safety Week – September 6-12, 2015 – is part of the Operation Airbrake program sponsored by CVSA in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). During the week-long brake safety campaign, CMV inspectors will conduct brake system inspections (primarily Level IV Inspections) on trucks and buses throughout North America to identify out-of-adjustment brakes and brake-system violations.

Brake-related violations comprise the largest percentage (representing 46.2 percent during Roadcheck 2014) of all out-of-service violations cited during roadside inspections. Improperly installed or poorly maintained brake systems can reduce the braking capacity and stopping distance of trucks and buses, which poses a serious risk to driver and public safety.

Brake inspections conducted during Brake Safety Week include inspection of brake-system components to identify loose or missing parts, air or hydraulic fluid leaks, worn linings, pads, drums or rotors, and other faulty brake-system components. Antilock braking systems (ABS) malfunction indicator lamps also are checked. Inspectors will inspect brake components and measure pushrod stroke when appropriate. Defective or out-of-adjustment brakes will result in the vehicle being placed out of service. Read more about the inspection procedure.

Additional inspections may include some Level I Inspections and, in ten participating jurisdictions, overall vehicle braking efficiency will be tested using performance-based brake testing (PBBT) equipment. These systems include a slow speed roller dynamometer that measure total vehicle weight and total brake force, from which braking efficiency is calculated. The minimum braking efficiency for trucks is 43.5 percent, required by U.S. federal regulation and the CVSA Out-of-Service Criteria.

 

Hello everyone , it's been a while since I have been on here and was curious if there have been any changes in the hiring and training process at transam. Still have nice trucks. Short training program and so on.
Gonna try to read some of the post over the last few months to catch up.

 

Not to mention while this is happening the "Drive sober or get pulled over" is also starting as well so you will see higher LEO visability all over for that as well.

 

Hi dennisroc! Good to have you back! As far as I know not much has changed with the hiring and training process at TransAm. We have a couple of new drivers that hopefully will let us know if there have been any changes to the program along the way.

 

*sighs* This would be the perfect job, if only we didn't have to deal with idiot shippers and receivers! !!!!

 

Couldn't handle that. Just not a team player! !!! Lol

A job with nothing but drop and hooks now...... would be cool.

 

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I might even go for that haha but wouldn't want to get out of the truck , someone else would have to do the hooking and un hooking lol maybe my wife

 

Just did a delivery to a Walmart DC near Gaston, SC a few days ago. They operated the same way.

 

Have you guys ever picked up beer at miller valley in Milwaukee? It's a zoo. But they have free wifi. So there's that.

Don't know why I asked this.