Attention USA Drivers!

I don't blame you.Why should you have to take someone elses crap because he did'nt feel like sitting hrs for it to get fixed.Hope your company gave you some kind of compensation.I wonder if safety or your dispatcher even talked to the guy that had this trl.I doubt it,they like to act concerned but really just shrug it off.

 

inspection a year past expiration id be talking to higher ups company needs to get it together not just drivers

 

Here is what I think happened...there was no MTs only one but was out of service he took the tag off and dropped it to get his load and book it. It was me.

 

why do you pull an out of service tag on any piece of equipment??
They are tagged for a reason.
This can and will cause wrecks and even deaths..
Good way to be fired in my book for doing that, plus any person up the food chain telling you to do it..

 

Welcome to mega company's lol...

 

Shoot. I have had people tell me the trailer I had was theirs. I have had it for hours. You bring it in to a terminal. You go to sleep. You wake up with someone beating on your door. They say "You have my empty". I just say "Oh really". "My tractor is under it". That's the end of that conversation. Lazy SOB didn't want to go find their own.

 

But your own trailer, problem solved!!

 

This has been a problem at USA Truck for as far as I can remember and it's not going to go away any time soon so there's no point in crying about it. I carry spare parts and do most repairs myself. You can't realistically blame a driver for dropping a trailer with problems when USA dosnt want to pay for break downs. I repair them myself and when I'm finished with the trailer I take my parts back off of it and leave it how I found it. LOL, the driver that dropped the screwed up trailer probably doesn't work here any more anyway.

 

Yea, I always had a sack of light bulbs, and glad hand seals, Electrical tape. I also had a few tools to fix mud flaps and such. It does come in handy. We only have so much time to go pick up a load. You can't spend way to much time on it. You might be late to receiver. I think it was NIKE over by Spartanburg. They have several trailers over there. They have great big holes in them. Nobody will pick them. USA won't send anybody to take them to be fixed. You can't take them to a receiver. So there they sit.