Hello, I have a question.

Not to mention you would probably end up in the rhubarb if you put the brakes on.

 

Company policy says no overspeed. You don't overspeed.

DM Bowman regulated us at 55 even if traffic blazed by at legal 70. We were in the way. If you allowed that truck to breach 70 mph and they see it on the recorder automatic firing. No ifs buts or maybes. No chance for you to splain anything. pack and get off the property. NOW.

But but but but... futile arguing in face of company policy.

IF you want to ride at 80 find a company or O/O that has none of those policies.

Speed governing has been going on since about 1994 since the trucks gained the electronic computers able to limit it, that was the very first thing many fleets started doing. For obvious reasons.

 

Pay me by the hour with OT and I will drive any way he cpy wants, otherwise- well you know.

Yep and I drove them and never once got an overspeed notice.

 

Well all posturing and verbosity aside, you will comply with published rules regardless of your opinion of them. If you choose to not comply then you can find another carrier that will allow you to overspeed. because you WILL find yourself fired. Unless you are driving for a generally small carrier you are really nothing but a number, a commodity to be used up. Yes, a carrier will call you in and order you to clean out your truck. This happens all the time across the US. A driver can handle one maybe two Terminated rehire on review situations. If you start to get a lot of fired because of failure to follow established company policy remarks, your choice of carriers starts to shrink in direct reverse proportion to how many of those type comments made about you.

As to your last comment, not all carriers keep up with overspeed. The thing with overspeed is that some carriers only really cause an action when the overspeed% passes a set point. I will also add this last point. Just because you can't see the actual overspeed % in the QC does not mean it is not being tracked AND being sent to the carrier during that routine scheduled data dump all QCs do.

 

1st, you ain't entitled to the company print out. so drop that one.

insurance companies very well may also be monitoring the events logs of the trucks, if not every single truck, all at once, then as on a need basis. maybe that o/p set off other events?

and some else has already stated that there are other things that must have been against him, and right now, i ain't about to look up what was said. you can go back thru the posts and find it.

not necessarily. proper braking applications (like i had done for decades, in trucks WITH OUT jake brakes) works wonders. sounds to me, like the o/p did not know the proper manual braking technique, and like so many others, depended on the computer.

what he says.....^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

I don't disagree with any of that but nobody has answered the? What is wrong with letting her roll on a hill if no other events occur Don't need a QC to track what the truck is doing a download of the truck computer will tell all. I get if the OP has other infractions then yes get rid of him. But for a 1 time event then no?

I think part of the problem is the computer [QC] automatically trips a certain event and somebody that's never been in a truck interprets it with a generic response.

I heard there is over 100% turnover rate in the trucking industry.
I also heard there is a driver shortage.


Uncle.

 

I think post #104 sized this situation up the right way. To more directly answer that question I can only gauge this on conversations I have had. Look at the facts. The only time a driver can overspeed is going down a grade. It is hard enough as it is to slow down and stop going under 65 on those grades. Overspeed and you are allowing the vehicle to exceed the company speeds they set. You are also multiplying stopping times and depending on the grade might be setting up a situation where you can't get stopped. If you are going 75 or 80 on such a grade, hit someone because you can't panic stop, and your carrier is going to pay out major $$$.

 

Take a good look at the tandems on this truck. The brakes are most likely on fire. This truck will not stop until it reaches the bottom, runs off a side of the road or hits something in the road. This is a nightmare for a driver. Sometimes they don't survive!

 

Yessir the trailer brakes finally lit on fire at about 3:20 and its not going to get any better.

Those paper rolls clobbered him good.

 

Pretty hard to blame on paper rolls, or any other kind of freight. lol