Climate Express

That's a bummer but at least they'll get ya up an going. Maybe you'll get ya a fancy motel.

 

I edited logs a bunch when i was there. My favorite catch phrase was " corrected duty status ". Leaves a lotta room for the gray areas, lol, lol.

 

How do they want you to log pre/post trip? Every outfit I've worked for in the past only required us to log 5min for each. Is that the same at Climate? Or do they want you to log a whole 15min for each?

 

If you do a proper pre trip, and not just poop and fill your coffee cup like most of the professionals we have out here today it will take you at least 15 min.

 

They require 15 minutes each, without making it look like a pattern, if that makes sense. So 15 or more minutes, but don’t do 15m 0s every single day for every inspection

 

They ever get you off the shoulder?

 

Yep I got to freightliner in Dallas around 3 am been here since

 

I always did a 7 minute free trip and a 15 minute post trip. Now that would vary. If in the morning I was live unloading or live loading at a customer I would chuck the 15 minutes in the pre-trip altogether there and then at the end of the day only do a 7 minute post trip. But they never said nothing to me about it but things change.

 

Does anyone know if Climate cares where we get our DOT Physical from? I got my last one at a chiropractor. But when I talked to a recruiter, she rattled off a handful of ME offices near me that they work with (pretty sure she said Climate foots the bill for it, but I could be wrong) and one of those offices she listed was Concentra, which immediately threw up a red flag for me.
So, back to my question, does Climate (like the DOT) not care where we get our med cards from, or do they require/prefer we get it from an actual ME?

 

So what is someone supposed to do when 3 trailers in a row have had some kind of tire violation? Don’t need a tire gauge or a penny to see that tires isn’t 2/32’s and not even ‘right at 2/32’s’.

Do I think it’s posing a safety hazard? No. Do I care about risking a violation to deliver the load on time? Not really. Am I going to drop it for someone else to drive with? Also, no.

So what do I do? Just harass maintenance everyday and look like I’m the one tearing stuff up because I’m actually willing to do a simple walk around? It’s not like I’m inspecting every crossmember with a microscope looking for hairline cracks. It’s simple stuff that should’ve been spotted on a walk around by the previous driver. For a tire like this, it should’ve been noticed 5 drivers ago. All someone has to do is act like an adult and notify maintenance when it starts getting down to 3 or 4/32”s. It’ll quickly get taken care of at the shop when convenient or done on site at Craftsmen if they actually give a heads up.

It’s the exact same stuff that happens at every 100+ truck carrier.