Am I responsible for paying for tire replacement / repair??

An all in one HP scanner is $39 at walmart. I have one and the boss gets a signed copy of the BoL in his email about 5 minutes after it's signed. I don't even have to turn the hard copy in and I end up with two more electronic copies that are pretty hard to lose.

 

I park in the yard every night, so my paperwork gets turned in every night. My paperwork pack is about 1" thick every day.

 

I see the mind set here. One is old school and the other is the book. The way a good driver does it he or she will constantly scan the moving parts of the truck all day long. That doesn't mean getting under the truck all it, means you look and feel the parts when you shut down for coffee, food, or for any reason you're out walking around the unit. You do a good pre-trip and then a though post trip and you'll be surprised on how many costly parts you catch that will save money and time. I've spotted two failing turbo seals and I know that saved some bucks.

After a while you'll just become part of the truck and you'll know when something is going bad before it does. Of course that's if you stay in the same truck everyday. But if you don't you'll still develop good trouble shooting skills that can only improve.

I would have to look at the tire to see if the driver should pay for it or not. If another driver flat spotting the tire during a hard stop I think I'd let it go. But if I knew the truck had good working ABS then I'd have to rethink. I believe it would get down to the drivers attitude and what he did. If he just comes out and says yeah I screwed up and how about I share the cost. But if the driver says there's no way then there would be a lesson he would need to learn.

 

Gas Hauler brings up an excellent point, and I've pointed this out before.

If your not slip seating, within 3 weeks you and that truck should become one with each other. If your the first driver in that truck, you better become one with that truck and be able to communicate with maintanence and your company when something is wrong. Even if it's "seat of pants" or "butt dyno" you should pickup on things.

No one drives my truck but me and my boss, and even then he only drives it when I tell him something is wrong with it. I've caught problems in the early stages and told them about it (written and verbal) and things have been repaired before they became major. I caught a failing camshaft in the early stages because I noticed one afternoon my jakes weren't working like they were the previous day. Took it in to Mack, they did some tests and reported back that I had a cam that was failing. With my previous truck, the samething when the turbo started to fail, intermittantly the turbo whine would be off/odd like a dentist drill, but it was intermittant. They told me I was imagining it, within three weeks the turbo failed. If they would have listened to me, the intercooler wouldn't have needed flushed out.

 

Like Daddy you to say."It's your ### in the seat of that truck,make sure it's a good fit."

 

Sounds like someone skidded the tire and you got hung out for it. You may only have two options, pay for the tire or find a new ride.

 

I'd find a new ride.....they're taking advantage of your noobishness to absorb their costs of doing business.

 

so if he's been driving for 20 yrs and does it? then what? are they still trying to make him absord their business costs?