how many of you do it every morning ?

Yeah, the drivers tend to come in and assume none of us know anything about driving a truck. Granted, a lot of our mechanics don't have the background, but some of us do. I list myself as an ex-driver, but I still get some wheeling in... I just put the "ex-" in there once driving was no longer my primary profession or a part of it.
So it gets interesting, suffice to say.

 

being that my tires cost 6000, i check the pressure every morning and before i move again after any stop. (not when i stop becuase they are hot and the pressure will be higher.) I just ordered a TPMS to make this easier.

Aside from that i do a full in depth pretrip including getting underneath, brake chk, full air check, etc. twice a week. I do a half ### pretrip every morning. (top off washer fluid, lights, walk around on everything else.) If anything look wrong, feels wrong, sound wrong i do an in depth pti. My in depth pti takes about 45 min, but i do check a lot. Also always do a tug test before i start driveing after nay brake and generaly do a walka round after breaks

 

Duh! Yet every flashlight that mounts on a gun has a high lumens rating. My point which flew over your head was to go to a gun shop or search online for gun mounting flashlights to get a good one.

 

i do that twice a week....if it leeks ill know w/o a pti

 

No, the point which went over your head is that a piece of crap is a piece of crap (why I specifically mentioned Lepers), regardless of lumens rating. You're the one pressing the notion that if it mounts on a firearm, it must be good, and that's a complete load of crap.

 

What an idiotic statement. Your profile has you at a year? How many tires have you blown so far? That attitude would not drive for me.

 

I do a visual on the truck. Check oil n antifreeze. Power steering every couple of days. Kick tires. Look at inside of wheels for bearing leaks. Hub oil usually in the day every couple of days.

When I did or I would gauge all tires every four days. When I put in 230+ gallons of fuel.

 

My co. gave each one of us, drivers a cute little tool to help us during our inspections.

[video=youtube_share;UdYhdHtPYkk]http://youtu.be/UdYhdHtPYkk[/video]

 

See here would be my question, was it light enough out to do a proper POST TRIP. You see a proper post trip will alert you to issues then you have 10 hours to get them fixed. If you did a proper POST TRIP since you are not using your brakes ect, is anything going to change, well yes a light can go out the moment you turn on your lights. If you do a proper post trip then your pretrip is just looking at the lights and thumping the tires.

 

Well sunshine that is just the basic requirements, however you can save yourself alot of headaches if you do a 6 pick full application which on self adjusting brakes will set them up right done at the same time as all the requirements you just quoted, now you can slip under and check for your limits if anything is out you can manually adjust or take it to a shop, now if you did all this on your POST TRIP rather than losing time in the morning finding it on your pretrip you could get the problem fixed on your 10 HOURS OFF DUTY