Open hood check fluids walk around touch tires yes touch with thumb after enough time you can feel how much it has inside check lights good to go look at tires to you can tell if wheight needs adjustments depending on bulging and air in tires
Do you pre-trip?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by CK73, Mar 27, 2019.
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A good reason to pretrip, truck was written up and taken into the shop 3 times for front end vibrations, before the output shaft of the steering gearbox broke from fatigue according to CHP. -
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That was back in the end of 2013, Making much more (28 bucks per hour) delivering Mail Distribution to Sorting. -
I usually spend much more time on a post inspection than I do on a pre. My thoughts are that I'm done for the night and can add fluids, change bulbs, etc.....yeah, I know...supposed to be on duty. Nope, I'm a clock conservationist.
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I drive the same truck every night. With that being said I still do Pretrip. Open hood to check fluids. Lines, everything is intact. Check my tires, lights and breaks.
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I used to. At my current job I don’t even need to flip the hood.
The mechanics check fluids every few days.
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I think it's best to constantly be looking at the truck you drive every time you stop every morning and every night.
The more that you do that to better you get to know your truck and the easier it is to see when something is out of place. And also it's important to pay attention to how the truck feels while you're driving to make sure if you have a problem you catch it before it's a real problem.
One time I was coming down a colossal Steep Hill in California and all of the sudden I didn't hear the jake brake anymore.
I felt nothing out of the ordinary everything seemed fine except I didn't feel the jake brake. I thought maybe the clutch went.
When I pulled over and I got out and looked, I saw that the two tires on the front driver side were gone. The lug nuts actually stripped off of the threads and the tires went sailing. If I told you how far away those tires traveled you wouldn't believe it. I know because when the mechanic came I went and looked for them.
They came off with so much force they flew all the way up on the other side of the highway and hit a retaining wall with a house behind it very close. It knocked a few cinder blocks out of the retaining wall and had that wall not been there or if the tire would have flown a couple ft higher it would have fllown right through the person's house. It spun with such Force the lug nuts actually stayed within the rim.
I'm so thankful nobody got hurt because a lot of people could have been hurt that day.
I did pre-trip the truck I did not feel any vibration or anything, although I was pulling a short trailer that was heavily loaded so maybe I thought it was just kind of rough.
But at any rate I check everything a bunch of times nowadays every single time I stop.
Especially the lug nuts and rims. -
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