Am I wrong for being this angry?

No it is your duty to report bad equipment and you have the legal right not to pull it and the company can not take any action against you.. There is a lot of drivers like this out there that pull crap and dont say nothing about it I've seen it every where I work..

 

Maybe all that needed done was bleeding the air tanks.

 

oh well glad he found the problem.Only next time and im sure there will be a next time.dont take it because this cost you time and money.

 

JIT freight has a lot to do with it as well. Many companies are too willing to hand out service failures on JIT loads for being even a few minutes late, much less hours, a day, etc.

 

I can see the confusion with my post. I will try to type it better... When I arrived to pick up a trailer, it had run out of fuel.

 

yep but there are a lot of drivers out there that get service failures for their own fault, not planning correctly etc. I would rather get to a place early than be late, I can sit and wait by a curb if they dont let me dock early. If im in the bay area or LA area I will leave an extra hour early depending on the time or morning. I know our company has a macro for being late and normally you wont get a failure if you do that macro and explain why your running late, accident, breakdown or whatever it might of been but dont give a reason "I over slept" lol
So far im 100% on time and I try very hard to keep that percentage. I cant say every part of my record is great but I can at least control being on time.

 

maybe the guy who pulled it thought about checking it out, but he didn't want to get all dirty and go in the truckstop looking like a slob instead of a nice, clean professional ! lol, sorry I couldn't resist. frustrating to be sure, don't ever do intermodal, almost every chassis is dropped with some type of problem. And if it's dropped in good condition someone will swipe parts off of it before you pick it up ! 95% of intermodal drivers don't care and the other 5% sit in the repair line all day.