Curbing trailer tires...

I do grocery stores at the moment, pet stores before that. Scuffing the sidewalls is heresy, and will ruin the tires.
If your not familiar with the shopping center. Stop in back, or in the middle lane between traffic, pull that little yellow knob on your dash to your right, and go for a recon. You could use the exercise anyway.
I have gotten, and get into some places that are unreal, and if I hadn't walked it, would have been very bad.

 

Running hard along the curb runs a chance to break the tire bead letting all the air out. You can usually air a tire back up by putting a stick or bar under the flat tire and pry up to reseal the bead so it takes air. Once it takes air it will be like it never happened except the tire is a ticking time bomb now. If there is no other choice, probably go up over the curb like in boating, better to go up over the waves than run along side them and get swamped out.

 

Disregard anything these guys have said; Curb the tires you'll be fine...the tires are engineered to take it, just do it very slowly...


-Mr. No Clutch

 

Well a little recon is a good idea.

However, I think Shnieder, like a lot of megas, has strict rules about parking anywhere near a lane of travel such as a center lane, margin, median, or turn lane. I don't know just asking? Didn't Shnieder loose a lawsuit about a truck parked on the right margin of the road and some car hit it? IDK, I just know it is a rule with many megas that any accident resulting from such parking, even temporary parking, is one of the five unforgivable sins that gets you fired for good.

On the other hand a lot of these stores have parking lot cameras. Curbing a trailer is considered a preventable by most companies especially megas. Many of these stores have no problem reporting the situation to your company. Some have even reported their delivery driver of doing the dirty deed when it wasn't that truck driver that did it. I have seen drivers fired for not reporting the preventable of curbing a trailer.

Just saying some things to think about when your faced with crappy delivery situations.

 

Don't recall that in the orientation. Dispatcher said he doesn't care what we do as long as we aren't late, so there's that. I do know your not suppose to back down a street, or U turn. One guy told me the way I leave the DC they would fire me, because two different genius's literally tore the tandem off of a fully loaded trailer hitting an SRP flood control vault, it has about a 2 foot high steel reinforced concrete wall with THICK steel grate on top. I watched some Hindu with CA registration DEVASTATE his nice new reefer on it. If your not capable of making a turn correctly I see no reason I should be punished for that. And I've hung it right in front of the boss, so maybe if they can get enough competent drivers they'll fire me someday lol.
I know all the stores in Arizona now, don't have to walk. Doing the pet stores was my truck. And there are A LOT of pet stores lol.

I don't even keep abreast of Schneider's stuff. I do this cause I have to be home for my Dad. Last Friday I was offered a teamster gig, doing almost the exact same thing, but I'd have to be gone for 36 hours at least once a week. And it pays. Can't do it.

So my ticket away from Schneider, unless I go back to doing concrete, is my Dads death.
Pretty F huh.
If him staying alive a few more years means staying with Schneider, so be it.
Or get a good local gig, as long as i'm home at night.

 

What is funny about that is long time ago when I was in orientation at Swift they used a Schneider truck parking on the shoulder as an example of what they would fire a driver for. They started out in orientation telling us the five accidents we would be fired for no questions asked: Rollover, U-turn, Rear-end, Sideswipe, and Illegal parking. As an example of illegal parking they told this story about a Schneider driver that pulled over to the shoulder of the road to check his Qualcom and was stuck by a passing car. They claimed that Schneider paid out a huge multi-million dollar settlement for the damages despite the fact the truck was totally out of the travel lane and not moving when the accident happened. Weather the accident happened or was total trucking company BS IDK. I am however curious as I have no problem in chalking it up to another big company trucking lie.

The hard thing about all these mega's is sometimes taking all their crap seriously, especially when they themselves have no problem lying. It just makes for a crap situation all the way around. But must of us have been there.

I just trying to put out something to think about before parking that truck. These trucking companies have no qualms about handing out preventables for parked trucks. The only way they might not give a preventable for a parked truck accident, is if your truck is parked squarely at a shippers dock. Even then it may be a fight.

And yeh I get the parent thing. Been their too. Best wishes.

 

As long as I'm legal by what ADOT's rules are, I'm ok with myself. When I clocked out today, today is my Friday, I had 67 messages waiting on the QC, so I don't think I'll be the one parking on the shoulder to check QC.

 

^^^ as you should be.

I won't roll a truck, rear end, or sideswipe a car, but flip a u-turn or park somewhere is something different. Their is a huge difference in all those thing. Some of these company rules are stupid and don't consider the greater consequences.

Just saying what I have heard not trying to get anyone worried about anything.

67 messages is a bit much. What the hell they need 67 messages to tell a truck driver?