I just saw something very strange.

i just called dispatch and mouthed off to them on how now, i have to sit and wait, for something that could have been done, when the lazy basterd dropped it.

 

no, we do not have that system. so ok, cover your arse. but if the tech is here (and apparently it is) YOU either do it as you're supposed to, or get the hell out??????????

 

True, but it's the same as without the cattle prod. Now, instead of looking at the actual truck (like good guys used to do) they're checking boxes. And cleaning bar codes so that the computer can scan.

What I experienced with the system, 1st hand, is that while its intentions are good it fails. And worse yet, as long as the boxes are checked everyone's butts are covered. Even in the case of negligence

 

We are being phased out one step and process at a time. I believe in ten years or less you will sit in the truck and simply wait for a malfunction. That will be our only function.

 

and for that, minimum wage, as we'd have no real duty to do.

 

Perhaps I missed something, and if so, I apologize in advance. But you went off on a dispatcher about a tire problem he knew nothing about?

 

correct. they tell you get an empty and go. how do you go, with bad tires. then you're told, get another trailer. ok, stolen tail lights, broken crank handles, missing glad hand grommets, broken trailer doors, want me to continue?

i held nothing back for dispatchers, screw'em and not a ###### thing they could do to me, it was a union shop, they screw with me? they catch hell from the union. but tell you what, the driver leaving a flat or blown tire, could lose a day's pay for non-reporting, screw him too if he got hell, after i reported it.

 

Yes sir. Im very nervous as the wheel is all that I know.

 

Just say NO! Hey Jim we need to move that over weight blah blah blah. Get blah blah to do it. Don't bother he's not a team player. Well find some (IDIOT) that will.

 

I believe that a proper pretrip inspection is not one of the most important things we do. In ten years of trucking, I have yet to see anything that was wrong. Not that there wasn't something wrong just that I never see anything. I got put out of service for cracks on the steering rim of the passengers side steer wheel. I had another driver point out where a hub seal was leaking oil. That is it. I would suspect that many of us go years never seeing anything because there is nothing to see. So if a company feels it is worth their money to provide a gadget to prove we are doing something which is almost totally worthless, so be it.