7/3 split question

And yet you've been shown the regs you quoted specifically. And you still can't find where you are wrong. What is it with some people that refuse to admit they are wrong even when shown the exact wording of the regulation?

 

If the heading of the reg is DRIVER INSPECTION doesn't common sense come into play? Do they have to spell it out. They assume you understand that part.

 

Unfortunately no, common sense doesn't come into play when talking about the law. What is written is what the law is. Heck there are examples where a forgotten comma changed the whole court case.

 

You'd think if it were required, they would have a regulation stating the driver needed to conduct one, right?

 

Hire someone to do it. Drive it off the assembly line floor. Have the team driver do it.
That's just 3 I can think of without trying. Yes at least one is absurd, but not all are like having a teammate do it.
Point is though nowhere does it have to be the driver inspecting. The driver just has to be satisfied with whoever is doing it.

 

I could also be satisfied about it's safety and legality because I've been driving it for years and it was perfectly safe and legal when I went to bed last night and nobody has touched it since then.

I can understand pre trips for slip seaters. But a truck you live in, you know everything that truck has been through. If you go to bed and its working great there is very little chance after a 10hr break the thing is suddenly unsafe to drive. The truck I'm currently in I've been in since before coronavirus was a word commonly used by society. I don't pre trip this truck every day. I live in it. I'll check over each trailer I pick up, especially that all important kingpin,but the tractor, maybe twice a week. I mean nothing has changed on this truck since I got it. The only problems this truck has had came about going down the road, which no pre trip would catch.

Also during every PM the maintenance dept goes over it with a fine tooth comb. They find nit picky stuff I could never hope to discover in a dark piss filled truck parking lot. So if the DOT would ask how I could feel it was safe the answer would be "Because our maintenance dept just went over it in the PM."

 

Really. DOT can explain it better than I can .Inspection s of equipment has been part of trucking since day 1.I gave you the specific part where it plainly says a pretrip is required and a post trip.

 

Can you post the regulation stating that a driver is required to conduct a pre trip inspection on an OTR truck? And since you said it exists, a post trip?

Detail the exact regulation, thanks. Because I've read this forum over and over and not seen it.

 

Except you haven't. I'm sorry you keep proving you are unable to read. Go back and read the actual regulations and keep reading them until you get there is no driver requirement to do an inspection.

Should be easy as I've already posted the exact wording of the regs you claim states a driver inspection is required.