I Got Fired For Discussing My Hours Of Service

Go back and read the regulations. Word for word.


what EXACTLY does it say.

It says to review the inspection report and verify the equipment is safe to operate. Sign it ONLY if there is a previous fault and it's been verified it's safe to operated.

At the END of the day is says to complete a DVIR.

It also says that all inspection times are to be recorded as "ON DUTY". It never says WHEN or HOW LONG.




I have sat through too many government regulation classes to be here and argue nuances in regulations with a bunch of internet operators playing armchair lawyers.

Those "little" words you want to ignore mean more than you give them credit. Every specific word in a law is there for a reason. Don't take them out.

 

Mn there is none, however you and only you are responsible for the safe operation of the veickle wether you want to inspect your truck or not. Again, I cannot believe your ging in this diretion. I give up, No what your all right, do what's best for you.......

 

There is no post trip inspection required by law.

 

Go back and read WHAT I said.


Did I say NOT to inspect it? No.

I am inspecting my equipment every time I get out of the truck. As I am driving it ETC. Every time I walk back to it. Every time I walk away from it. Why do you think that people get gigged for lights out during the day? Because they didn't run there lights and when they went in to take a piss, they never look at the truck on the way out.

We are discussing the nuances of the LAW. Major difference.

You can do a walk-around on the lights from over 100 yards away.

Look the engine over every time you open the hood during the day to wash the windows.

And yet people are getting all up in a bunch because some of us have a different (and IMO better) understanding of the law than others.

Do you HAVE to do an inspection? yes. When? doesn't specify other than it must be recorded as "ON DUTY".

And you get all tissy thinking we are saying to NOT do an inspection. We aren't. We are asking you to define it within the realms of the law. And it's pissing you off because your not seeing it the way the law is written.

You read specific words and block the rest of them out and interpret them in a different light than what was meant out of it.


Want to REALLY send people into a TISSY.

I rarely if EVER record a fault on my DVIR. Why? Because I repair things as soon as I find a fault.

And since I am only required to REPORT only those deficiencies if I continue to operate the equipment AFTER I find a fault and do not correct it, why report it?

 

Mn read the entire regs, like I said before not just an excerpt. Do you all actually drive fr a living??? Really? Seriously!!!!! A lot of you sound like my 16 year old teenager. So let me see, I'm going to put my life in the hands that drove this truck prior to me and he decided he was too tired to do a proper pre trip and neglected to see the leeking wheel seal on the front right steer tire. So I climb in and start driving down the road with 48,ooolbs of ductle pipe stacked 13.3ft high, total height. MMMMm has i'm cruising down the highway at 65mph in the whichever lane, All of a sudden the steering wheel rips out of my hand turning the truck violently to the right, smashing into a school bus filled with children, and not to mention flipping over ontop of numerous cars. Ductle pipe acting like missles launches into oncoming traffic beheading two drivers causing a chain reaction of multiple veickles. Now that every veickle is at rest finally, oh no!!!! The right wheel spindle is so hot that it starts a fire with the gear oil that is all over the wheel, and burns the entire truck and any survivor that managed to make it through the crash directly involved with that truck. Yep,you mange to get out, while your staring at the flames and wrecked veickles, yu can hear the screams from the burning trapped victims. After it was all said in done, i don't even want to say how many people died and was injured that day. however the driver of that veickle has over 40 years to think about it. The out come, bottom line, the right wheel seal was leaking causing the wheel to sieze on the spindle acting like an instant brake on that wheel, causing the truck to veer sharply to the right, which caused the initial collision and so on. This my friends is reality. I cannot say this any clearer: REG. OR NO REG, THE PERSON WHO OPERATES ANY VEICKLE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAFE OPERATION OF THAT VEICKLE. Not his mother, or the driver before him or the one after him. MN how long have you been driving to say what your saying. There is no reg, no money, nothing that can bring back a life that's gone.

 

wow jseney,

You really are NOT comprehending what we are saying.

 

By the way Mn I do know the laws and regs, and clearly know how to interpret them. I interpret them putting my liability out of harms way. Second your only on a small portion of the regs that cover inspections. I sure hope you don't haul hazmat or tankers with fuel,

 

Have a nice night......Your last post proves to me you don't. you put too much emotion into it.

The regs they are discussing only have to do with equipment. What you are now tossing into the mix is load securment which is an entirely different subject matter.

And NOT part of the DVIR.

But....you have your interpretation to keep you warm at night. That's good.

 

Let me ask you this.


You are driving down the road. The weather goes south and you start to drive in the snow. The wipers build up snow on them and become pretty much useless and your vision is obscured.


Do you continue to drive?


Do you write up faulty wipers on your DVIR?

 

wow jseney,

You really are NOT comprehending what we are saying.

Yeah I am, very much so. I've seen and heard too much in my years Sonny, You are so dead wrong. Should we make a reg so you know when to pee? When does common sense come into play. Or do you need a reg for that to. Yep I guess this new breed, is deffinitly the answer????? Thank God I have a few years Left. I'm going to leave it up to you all big riggers to carry on.