dot violation

From what you are saying, I do wish for your sake that you would have had a better trainer as well. I trained for a while but I am no longer a trainer. I spent a lot of time teaching about everything, log books, weight distribution, backing, planning routes, maintenance and repairs.... so on.

 

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Wow, that is one thing I love about certain forums, not only can we share but we can LEARN..... no I'm not screaming just emphasizing but too lazy to change fonts,lol . Thanks a bunch snowlauncher, never seen one before, do you use it everyday? AAAAHH never mind I don't want you to incriminate yourself. Does it work good? I always have my wife apply the brakes as we are a team.

 

You're welcome. Yes I used it today as part of my pre-trip routine. A routine is a great thing to have once you get into it it helps prevent you from missing steps. Having a co-driver, like your wife, is a great convenience for helping you with your pre-trip. You could each assign different parts of your pre-trip inspection to one another and then complete the routine individually. It should cut your pre-trip time in half and still be a thorough process of inspection before operating the vehicle. Just an idea.

 

Yes we try to help each other out. But remember when doing pre trip, as a team, one is suppose to be in sleeper or off duty. So technically I cant help her and she cant help me. But she is the day driver and I can just use her pre trip and agree with it, if I'm sure truck is safe, without physically doing a second pre trip within 24 hrs. When she is driving I can be up front off duty for 2 hours before my 8 in the sleeper or 2 after my 8 in the sleeper. We don't always do that but that is what DOT requires.

 

Old days trailers would lock up and stick going sideways sometimes leaving you trying to speed up to get it straight before it released Fun Fun Fun.

 

Great idea I need to bring my creeper so she’ll have an easier time when we do an inspection

 

Sure is alot of nanny type switches on those dashes today.

I best hold my peace. I don't rest easy in a cab full of nanny things. I cannot even drive a car in a auction house sometimes surrounded by warning stickers all over the cabin. Or a computer that wont rev engine in a parking lot, I gotta creep out in idle gear like a noob.

 

Live and Learn it could have been worse had there been another out of adj .(2) total = OOS. Or 1 steer out of adj = OOS. I doubt if anyone crawls under Truck everyday. Not bad idea to check all you can when hooking to different trailer especially.Learn all you can it’s not the last time you will see a bad brake. Learn how to adjust and how to pinch off airline and back off brake when ones locked up. It will happen and at the worst time.Check Utube lots of good videos.

 

We did a pretrip, post trip together as a team. Usually I am doing the pretrip getting ready to start my 10 hours (You is 11, but laws HOS has changed) she is doing her post trip. Pretty nifty. We go around the truck together. By a thousand drips of knowledge she eventually knew all I knew about inspecting big rigs. Remember this brake rod? Let's check the other rod just like that. Eventually in a few weeks I had her checking all 10 rods. Just not all of them at once on day one. She is stressed enough. (I check the other 9.) Eventually I just look while she checked them 10 hands on for her pretrip. Maybe a kiss under there for encouragement, but it's not exactly foster a romance there.

If something came up, the blessed computer throws a fault message. I look it up on the manual really quickly and determine what the problem is. (We had the factory manual on the truck with all codes at that time either on paper or in the laptop) we never did not have a code we did not understand exactly what it meant.

Go to the shop, sprout code, sprout factory defect listed under code in work order. They fix it. Inspect fix if possible show code clear on the computer and we sign out and hit the road after the bill is paid by company. Easy. Just that shops prefer to hear... oh shes not got get up and go this morning. Not code such and such with injector bad in cylinder 4. (They don't wanna hear it.... they prefer to find it with a 3000 dollar diagnostic billing and workup.)

I actually have a bad oxygen sensor on my tahoe which I told the shop to find a new one in two weeks and we will be putting that in plus a new plug that is fouled on cylinder 5 due to misfiring as a result of engine running in open loop rich in fuel mixture fouling everything.

There was a pause from the shop and they say.. we don't like that. We want you to come in and tell us shes not starting very well. (Like I used to in the past until I purchased a decent live code reader for the OBD2 plug and advanced enough to pull data to see what the Tahoe computer is doing in real time going down the road with 7000 possible fault codes and a short brief on each one plus any related pendings thatt is part of the problem. (In this case misfire on fouled plug)

I think the shop hates me now that i got a code reader and can dispose of the 45 dollar part of the bill by just ordering a replacement of the sesnsor and plug. They are going to insists on doiung everything themselves and bill me the 45 for the pleasure. I have the same reader they do. HA....

It might be past time I find another shop who wont give me flak. Big truck shops do the same thing. "What part of new oxyen sensor and spark plug on cylinder 5 don't you understand? (About 105 dollars including book labor at 70 dollar per hour off the shop labor time book.)