Brake Check areas: pull off mandatory?

Remember the old days?
No automatic slack adjusters, had to crawl under the tractor and trailer with the 9/16" wrench to adjust the brakes.
If in the east, you could get away with adjusting probably once a week.
Out west, you could end up doing it every day, and with a scale house at the bottom of the hill, you check the adjusters at the top of any long steep grade.
In that case, you would log a 15 minute stop, on duty/not driving, for brake adjustment.

 

Just use Georgia overdrive when going down hill.

 

I pull over and log 5-6 minutes On Duty/Tire/Brake Check so later on the lawyers who are trying to sue me after their client rear ended me can see I am an up and up professional driver.

 

I like to just spread my wings and fly..

 

yeah but what happens if they find your YouTube channel? They'll bury your under the courthouse.

 

The brake check starts at 5:57 and we see a hazmat truck blow right on by the brake check.

 

It depends on the signage. Black on white signs describe what is law and would be mandatory. Black on yellow is a recommendation or warning.

 

Eh, whuddaya need brakes fer? All they do is slow ya down! Hot load gotta get there...ain't got no time fer slowin' down.

 

I dont know how to adjust disk brakes but I do check to see if anything is hot.

 

If it's a mandatory brake check, there better be proof of the stop.

As far as how much time to log; eLogs will do it for you (just make sure it is recorded as on-duty, not driving) and for paper, however much time it takes--1 minute, 1 hour, whatever.