UNSAFE! UNHEALTHY! UNHAPPY! WORK ENVIRONMENT!

You guys seem surprised or amazed.

3 weeks ago I saw a truck come into the local mechanic shop with no clutch, driven from Florida all the way out to Nevada.


You had to start the truck in gear literally and start shifting, and if you wanted to stop? Well downshift downshift downshift until you are coasting and hit the brakes and shut engine down.

One would wonder if any of the stations where open when he crossed state lines.

I took a few pics to remember it.


P.S. the shifter was welded together from what looks like two different shifters.

 

I don't understand it. It's beyond abuse. Destructive actually.

Im going to get yelled at and knocked on the head tomorrow for sure after I finish typing the following outburst...

I am sick and tired of a apparent perception from a new generation of non domestic truckers who come here to the USA thinking they can run the trucks in the ground desert style. Where is the love and regard for a truck as one would love a woman and care for same? I don't see any of that among certain drivers today. It's almost they want to go back to the 7th century and make a #### out of everything they are given to drive. //end outburst.

 

How did you know it was a foreign owner but driver was a citizen.

Interesting enough when the truck was being worked on I had a chance to peek inside and the cab literally looked like squatters paradise.

How do drivers live like that I don’t know.

On top of that the truck had DOT stickers on it stating it’s recent inspection. I call bs on that inspection no way no how that rig could have passed inspection.

And last but not least the truck for sure had not been washed for a decade.

Included a pic of said rig to show a bit of what’s going on

 

I hope those steers are not retreads. I don't know.

That poor FLD has been through hell. That battery box below the driver's door cannot be factory. It;s all tacked sheet. Am I wrong? Please tell me it's wrong that I am.

The fuel tanks are tiny. IF I had to run on those OTR there is no point. It's almost as if the company does not want whoever driving it to be able to sell some of it for cash.

I can go on, but I think Ive said enough. Im one of those moods this morning due to medicine not quite suiting me and I may get in trouble for being too caustic.

If there is anything at all good I can say it's this. Whoever is in that #### thing really loves it. Do you see that collection of wonderful parts all over the ground below the tank?

 

@x1Heavy the tools belong to the mechanic trying to fix the poor gal, the owners should be thrown out of the i industry. Funny thing is I remember when talking to the mechanic that the driver was in his way to California.


Oh well move on I say. I keep telling my wife. Don’t follow a rig dont be near it, pass or stay far behind you can never tell how good or bad the driver maintains it.

 

Will do. Good luck to the both of you.

 

I know, I answered a good paying ad & after the interview I went to take the drive test & saw where I would be backing & the state of their trucks & said no thank you. If you have 10 rigs you should not have enough space to back only half of them, especially for a nighttime position . Plus some looked like million milers & were only a couple yrs old.

 

30 years.. top 10 bad jobs.

JOB HOPPER
Let's move along

 

I want to get a Tesla, but I don't want to drive it to work because my Honda has dents and scratches from careless (or ####ty) coworkers. So I may just get a junker for work. Lol

 

Man my job must be awesome. I can afford 2 new cars.

/rollseyes.