CSA 2010...Government Garbage

One of them is at the tune of $ 200 Billion Dollars a year. Global Warming ( Unaudited ) where is it going. Over $ 300 Billion entitlements for illegals. Time to wake up folks.

 

yea illegals here is another can of worms let us stand in the streets breaking the law and protesting see if they dont throw us under the bus .

 

You'll have to point where points are only "given" to the driver. All inspections are recorded for the carrier and the driver. All inspections and violations count on both the drivers and carriers record. Excessive drivers failing in the BASIC's will lead to an audit or intervention for the carrier not the driver.

 

Well "Tazz" I would love to hire you to inspect my truck every morning before I leave out, because as I said this was an internal o-ring with a a 45 degree fitting on a brake valve located underneath the motor behind the radiator. Again, my truck did not leak down, applied brake pressure showed no signs of a leak down, I sat in the DOT bay and applied brake pressure for well over 2 minutes and nevere leaked down, so don't sit here and tell me that I was irresponsible in the fact that this problem was not discovered, I will not stand for it and I will not be singled out to be the one driver in America that did not pick up on this problem, it was not evident nor was it noticeable at all on a typical pre-trip walk around, guys like you raise my blood pressure through the roof, and honestly you're a joke of a driver to sit here and fault me for something that was completely out of my hands, good luck to you driver in your future, hope CSA treats you well........

 

More hyperbole. Don't want to follow the rules in the industry you ask permission for the privilege of operating in? Go home and return your CDL. Problem solved


Making sure you are operating your commercial vehicle correctly is a proper function of Government.


You want to discuss the Patriot act, asset forfeiture, drug war......
I'll agree.

 

Was your truck in need of repair?




Sure crap gets by everyone. Hell lights can go out rolling down the road. That does not change the fact those are infractions. If you have few and far between incidents as you claim this was you will average out as a low risk driver. Repeated infractions that "got by you" will show as a sub par driver.

 

well well well, after 35 years of driving DOT finally caught me on one. I had a flat on a inside tire between loading and the first scale 30 miles up the road. I think I'll dataQ it just for the hell of it since it actually was not all the way flat.

 

Tazz, it's just the fact that it singles you out as a driver. Was my truck in need of repair? Yes.... But what kills me is the fact that I as a driver would have never found this problem in its current condition, I was showing no signs of having an air leak at all, would this problem have persisted and been noticeable on a pre-trip? Yes..... At that point I would have picked up on it and had it repaired. I understand your take on the subject, and I believe safety is a goal, but as a driver encountering a problem that at the time was out of my hands, and then failing an inspection as a result, it just bothers me, on paper it makes me look bad when in all reality I do not honestly believe that any driver on this board would have picked up on the problem. But like I originally posted, I had the issue taken care of and later that day was given the opportunity to be re-inspected, there were no guarantees of a pass but thankfully I did. Hopefully this passed inspection, level 1 none the less, will shine light on the fact that I'm a responsible driver and that I do everything in my power to keep things up to par. This is a heated topic, I agree, but I believe it's going to hurt a lot of good drivers in which circumstances that are completely out of his or hers hands shine a bad light on that driver. Just my 2 cents.......

 

See I think that as peer groups are formed and comparison's are made a lot of drivers might have a violation or two and have several "clean" inspections, while others consistently have violations that were not recorded prior to CSA2010.

How many actually do a pretrip? Watch a truck stop some morning. It scares the crap out of me watching someone do a cursory(walk around and count lights,maybe kick a couple tires) and then take off down the road that my daughter is in a school bus on.

Do an experiment. Ask the guy next to you if you can borrow his tire gauge for a second because yours broke.


How many out of ten do you think will have one?

How many do you see actually check their wheel seals? Ever seen a wheel assembly cross the road?


Will we catch every driver with faulty habits and equipment? Doubtful, but if we can get some of them........

 

lol, I had to let DOT use my tire gage