Handling a skittish driver?

Either ride with him for a day or drive the truck yourself after he writes it up for one of the mystery violations ... If you do not know how to drive you ride with a trusted mechanic and experience the problem (or lack there of) for yourself

 

Maybe your mechanics don't have enough attention to detail or they get hourly pay and it really doesn't matter to them if the truck breaks. They're still making money.

One time a noticed a slight scraping sound coming from a turbo on one of our acert cats. I wrote it up everyday for a month. Finally I got a hold of a fresh, young mechanic in our shop that had precise attention to detail and thought equipment should be at 100% He pulled the tube off the front of the lower turbo. Sure enough it was hitting the housing. I saved the company how much by being picky?

Another time there was a slight vibration in only the top two gears while pulling hills when heavy. The lower the rpms got; the worse the vibration got. The mechanics looked for this problem for 2 months. Then one weekend a new driver took my truck out and he liked to jam gears. Well he also found the problem I was complaining about. It was a hairline fracture in the yoke on the front diff. The driveshaft came apart, the yoke exploded into shrapnel which blew out the quick release combo valve, the abs valves disappeared, the catwalk ripped in two pieces, the front pinion seal leaked, the air lines to the front drive axle were ripped off. The tow bill back to Denver from Rawlins was epic!

Long stofy short, be grateful you have a driver that cares enough to treat like itwere his own truck. Maybe he just needs some time with the mechanics to learn what to look for. Provided the mechanics don't give him an uncaring attigude.