Gettin Tired Of The Lazy Don't Give a Crap Bums

I use a spray bottle ($1 at walmart) with water and a few drops of Down dishwashing soap for pre-cleaning the bugs on the windshield. The same concoction works great for spraying on a nail or screw to see if the area is leaking air.

Soapy water is the same stuff used in tire shops...

 

believe it or not...WINDEX will also bubble

 

I am sorry but to me this is a very bad idea. First problem with it is simple, you are making the dropping driver responsible for the trailer. What happens if its hit by another driver and gets damaged? (happened to me) yep the dropping driver pays! What happens if the trailer is damaged by a disgruntled ex driver? I am sorry but any system that makes a driver responsible for something no longer in their control is a bad system. I know that what is in place today stinks, but if I were to ever get fined because of a damaged trailer in this way I would simply quit.

 

Seems to work out for 4,000 Prime drivers. They do a p/u and drop inspection on trailers in the Qualcomm. Yeah, I know, it's easy to lie on that, but I rarely had trouble with trailers over there.

 

okay, time to revive this thread from the coma it was in......

i'm sitting in Edwardsville....last time i was here, it was halfway nice. and little to no snow/ice on the pavement. Now i know when the lines get covered up, its impossible to know exactly where they are, so you must "guess". But come on drivers.....some of you are no better than 4-wheelers in wal-mart parking lots, and you couldnt keep a row in line if your life depended on it. Heck....sometimes you can't even when you CAN see the lines. But its pretty simple......when you know the spots are angled, you don't pull your trailer up nose to nose even with the next one. getting out and looking goes a long way, but just use 2 oz of brain matter. If the spot is angled to the right, you pull up FARTHER than the trailer to your left. If its angled to the left you pull up BEHIND the trailer to your left. I know the average length of employment/experience at Swift is only about 12-14 months, but in that amount of time you should know better.

Also, what is the deal with the #### fog lights? Are some of you drivers that blind that you need to use your fog lights in the yard? maybe i can understand out on the road....but i think some of you have them on just 'cause it looks cool'. If you're that blind you need 4 headlights on.....think its time to find a local day job.

oh and one more thing....just because the lines might be covered, use some common sense to know that parking at the end of a row....it might LOOK like a spot....but think of how much room you're leaving another driver who has to now try to get around your big az. One driver just did that, rather than spend a couple minutes driving around looking for an actual spot, or heaven for bit, park farther away from the terminal, they chose to just pull up and park at the end of the row. leaving MAYBE enough room for 1.5 trailers between him and the drivers who park along the curb next to Deffenbaugh.

 

Picked up a trailer at a drop yard in Charlotte today that had been dropped by one of our drivers. Both left side wheel seals were dripping, dirt and grease all around both hubs, and both white wheels were sprayed by grease in a nice rotary design.

The trailer had been there a few days, and could have been fixed by the shop (on premises) belonging to the primary company - no road service call or anything - all that would have had to be done is to let the company know.

Now, I have the choice of killing 3-4 hours at a TA and hoping it won't be a teeth pulling experience to get the company to cover it, or just clean the hobs and wheels really well and hope it doesn't get noticed.

Anyway, wanted to take this opportunity to thank the jerk who left the trailer (loaded) with two blown hub seals.

 

Geeeese DJ are you the perfect driver out here or just got nothing to do but
#&$*# about everything Im starting to wonder if you even like yourself.
And what does parking got to do with bad trailers being dropped.

 

well the title of the thread is "tired of lazy dont give a crap bums"...yeah the OP was talking about drivers who dont sweep them out after a live unload, etc....but it was a mix of nothing better to do, and just the same crap getting under my skin today.

am i perfect? well yeah. (kidding)....but i do have a bad habbit of doing my job the best i can do it. meaning parking my trailer RIGHT or as best as it can be...and not being LAZY.

all goes back to a little common courtesy....which 1 out of 3 drivers dont have.......and i'm being generous saying 1 of 3.

 

I have tools and RTV, and seriously never needed to do a quick fix on a trailer hub, but I'll mess with it while getting unloaded in Detroit tomorrow. Going to be cold...

Thanks for the great info.