Company Driver Tool and Supply List

duct tape, it fixes everything!

 

There is a really good list around here (this site).

Some good person will post it, I'm sure.

 

I always had a set of big channel locks to help get those tight glad hands lined up, set of vise grips, hammer, socket set, set of random sized nuts and bolts, bungee cords, wd-40 or some type of lube, couple sets of work gloves, crow bar.. oh cant think of anything else right now but im sure I will later.

 

I personally kept my tools to a minimum since I was a company driver. This is actually to your benefit, despite what some old hands will say. If you carry the tools then when you call in to breakdown they want you to try to fix it yourself, before they call roadservice, now this seems logical if you can fix it do it right? Wrong, if you try to fix it doing exactly what you're told then something goes wrong that may be in connection you're now liable for the cost of fixing the problem. Been there and done it, then had to fight for months to get my money back.

 

But you did get your money back right? Flip side of the coin is the longer you sit waiting for road service the less coin you make. Legally a company can not hold you liable for doing what they tell you do to. They might try, and some people might let them get away with it, but it's not legal. We used to have drivers they would carry practically nothing and then say their standard "Im not a mechanic" or "thats not my job" which may be the case but the better prepared you are (tools) the less time you might be sitting somewhere in the middle of nowhere waiting (for hours??)for a road service truck that has to come from the middle of somewhere else, just to fix something that the driver could have fixed in short order

 

Rockee I think the solution is what I finally ended up doing. I carried basic tools, the stuff I needed to fix the stuff I knew how to without being told by a guy over the phone. I had 1 good chain that could handle a pull start, a set of jumper cables (I used these alot in my POS first truck, some wrenches, a 2lb hammer, and some lubricants for the tandem pins. Anything I could fix myself, I did. However, on issues I didn't have any clue about BEFORE I called in, I lied and said I didn't have any tools.

 

Now they are using the 8 point star screws...so get a set of those...aw hell, just pull up to a snap-on truck while he is in selling to the mechanics and take one of everything available...send the bill to Jerry Moyes!