How do you handle truck maintenance issues with your company?

Here’s your drive / no drive decision tree:

- Could it affect the safety of yourself or the motoring public? Don’t drive it!

- If it’s not a safety issue, drive.

Main thing you need to do is learn what is considered a safety issue. Here are a few examples:

- Hub leaks - This is a real and potentially very dangerous fire hazard.

- Brakes (Obviously)

- Tires

- Lights

- Air leaks

- If you’re a Kentuckian and you’re dispatched to go through central Arkansas, you might want to re-think accepting the load. That’s the rumor anyway.

These are just a few off the top of my head.

 

The tickets go to both you and the company.

 

If it's broken, report it and get it fixed. The person in dispatch telling you to "take it down the road" is only concerned with delivering or picking up freight. Reach out to the safety department for guidance, and make sure you always get the names of the people you talk to in these type of situations.

 

If the truck is unsafe, don't drive it. Period.

 

Yeah his exact words were "all fines go to the company." The notion that the violations would follow suit was my mistaken assumption.

 

Not everyone has the benefit of your excessive muscle mass and testosterone. Imagine a 110lb female driver with a 375lb sweaty moose of a boss breathing down her neck.

He said it was an option, not the only option.

 

Hopefully it's that and not a "who's snitching" dept lol

 

If I was an inspector and someone drove a truck with OOS defects to my scalehouse I'd be extra picky with my findings. Just because you want to make a point doesn't make it legal to drive it on public roads.