A preventable "incident" on my PSP....

out this way, the can haulers are mostly non-english speaking people. they as it was then, drive the most rag-tag of equipment. if they did have a cb radio, they'd either be on another channel, or on 19 and talking thier language.

you are new, but as you age in this industry you might become jaded like i have, but maybe not.

don't forget as my sig line says, 48 years and done...that was an awful lot of years of the BS out there, mostly from the ignorant fools that call themselves truckers, and at some point, "enough was enough", and i went on my merry own ways...

the caring, helping hands of the old timers faded away a long time ago, and will never return, thanks to the morons, who think they know it all.

 

Like the ones who believe frozen brakes are a mechanical failure?

 

See, here's the thing. I've had frozen brakes 9 times in my year-long career so far. Nine. Times. And I've caught it during pretrip every single time by actually getting under there and eyeballing my brakes. There's nothing high and mighty about it.

And forget those other drivers, you ain't them. If they went and had the same incident you did and then posted it here, we'd all be saying the same #### thing to them, too. Fact is, you blew 2 tires by failing to stay parked until an easily detectable and fixable mechanical defect was rectified, which is, according to the the DOT and FMCSA's definition, preventable.

Not a day that goes by I don't read half the stories on this site and feel thankful I had a good mentor. His teachings have saved my ### more than once.

As for being a mentor myself... it's on the to-do list. Once I've got enough experience under my belt that I'm not a student teaching a student, that is

 

I've had to do it twice in this season...LoL. Both times I pretty much knew I'd have to as the trailer brakes had been set for a while.

 

What would it be if your brakes were frozen so you light a fire to unfreeze them, then the tires catch and you need new tires? Uh.. asking for a friend...

 

Ive been blessed with a few trainers. The archangel gaberial would be hard pressed to impart the knowledge we all thirst for in our time of need while in that passenger seat. ///SATIRE...

Ive also recognized a few trainers who could not be bothered to give a *&^% I usually removed myself from that situation fairly quickly. In those days its a very short conversation to a suit in the side office comparing the differences what I expect of a trainer and how abysmal that theirs is actually has been. One suit fired me yelling, who the *&^% are you to tell us about OUR (Puffs up like peacocok) Expert Trainers?

Hence Peacock Express Inc.

Today, the more they grind students bones in over decorated trucking schools frilled with all sorts of fancy talk about training to 160 hours, 320 hours industry best blablabla its all futile. BS. I hate to say it. Poor kids getting a CDL and then falling into the dark pit of bad trainers who cannot be bothered to take a #### minute to get them taught. So they sit there and rot.

I had one trainer long ago who was quite something. I actually believed for a while he was mentally unstable at times. But he could drive that truck. Maybe you needed to be a little less of a grip on your mental faculties to do some of the things he did. a the end of the day the loads there, to the delight of a blissful dispatcher who is pleased as punch.

So much for high expectations....

 

How dare we, indeed?

I guess you didn't get the sympathy and validation that you sought. I guess you're also never going to take responsibility for your screw up.

 

What you got was exactly what got should have expected: drivers recognizing you trying to blame it on "mechanical failure," when you should have caught it.

If all the logs on a wheel break, and the wheel falls off, and you don't notice it in your pre trip, yes, it's a mechanical failure. But, it's also human failure for npr noticing it.

The bottom line is, add has been stated ad nauseam, you should have caught it.

Oh wait, sorry.
You poor guy. The ###### brake froze up. It wasn't your responsibility! The air leak was mechanical failure, too! Not your responsibility!