Hard Brakes

Ridgeline said: ↑

I've got to add something here, when I do road tests with appicants, I watch how they brake and more importantly how the truck stops. For a lot of reasons I don't want them to slam on the brakes, it is a sign of a piss poor driver who should not be driving a truck.

But ...

I drive for a company that provides drivers to clients as fill ins or just because they need an extra driver. I have a co-worker who sometimes will take my place with one customer who pretty much wants only me, I found our why last week.

I keep a neat truck, everything has a place and everything is in its place. The truck I drive has 38,000 miles on it and it was in great shape. I made a nice console for it to keep things like pens and maps on, so they are easy to find. And the owner of the company likes how the truck is kept, so happy customer is a regular one.

Last week I was assigned to another customer for a days worth of work after we were told nothing would be coming out of the shop. But they had something that needed to be delivered, so my coworker took the assignment. I get back there the next day, go to pull the truck into the shop to load and open the door. Everything is all over the place. The maps are scattered on the floor, my pens and tire gauge was on the right door sill and the cleaning stuff I had on the passenger seat was all over the place. I can drive that truck do hard stops and have nothing move, but this guy must have been jamming on the brakes so hard and very often that things had to fly off and hit the floor. I had to clean coffee off the Visors and the floor. I told my boss Monday that I cleaned up everything so the customer would not see it and he said this guy was going anyway, he screwed up another truck last week - he fried the brakes. Today this customers truck is in the shop because the shoes are cracked on the three of the six brakes.
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Cracked shoes? #####!

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