Info on fix it ticket for company driver

Depends on why they stopped him, maybe they were dragging on the ground.

 

Were the glanhands strapped down with a 50# WLL tarp rubber bungie?

Pretty sure the regs say you have to report all tickets and accidents immediately to your carrier.

Then about once a year fill out a company sheet declaring all your tickets and accidents within the last year.

Besides all that carriers subscribe to a service that alerts them when their drivers have ticket and accidents and pending license suspensions.

That happened to me in California, little fender bender, we exchanged info but I didn't know they had passed a law that accidents over $700 had to be reported to DMV along with proof of insurance and my license was going to be suspended and the carrier found out about it. Couple of hour long phone calls straightened it all out.

 

You need to report it to your Company.. FMCSA requires the company yearly to review driving records.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/391.25

Guidance for § 391.25: Annual inquiry and review of driving record.
Question 1: To what extent must a motor carrier review a driver’s overall driving record to comply with the requirements of §391.25?

Guidance: The motor carrier must consider as much information about the driver’s experience as is reasonably available. This would include all known violations, whether or not they are part of an official record maintained by a State, as well as any other information that would indicate the driver has shown a lack of due regard for the safety of the public. Violations of traffic and criminal laws, as well as the driver’s involvement in motor vehicle accidents, are such indications and must be considered. A violation of size and weight laws should also be considered.

 

I'm pretty sure someone from your company needs to sign off on your ticket and mail it back to the state it happened in. That's usually how it goes anyways.

 

Not really,,, if the ticket is written to the driver. I got an overweight ticket and it was written to me, but the company warehouse did not secure the load right. I weighted after I got it and the load shifted in route. I was 5k over on the drives and only 3 miles from the consignee. I took pictures of the load when the seal was broken. The paper rolls were not on slip sheets and not strapped correctly... Due to the company warehouse not securing it the company paid the ticket... the weigh ticket I got when I picked the load up save my behind.... I did check several months later with the state to make sure it was paid and had the state mail me something to confirm it....

But the driver still has to report any and all tickets... The company is responsible for a yearly audit by the FMCSA. IF you sign off no tickets, and they find out you falsified the form, you are fired.

So simple if you work for a company, report the ticket.. take your lumps since you were in violation...

 

I just figured an actual fix it ticket would be tied to the truck, not the driver like an overweight. Like how an overweight doesn't go against your CSA but failing to secure air lines would.

 

I had a overweight once in excess of 137500 before destroying the state's scale. The acutal weight is unknown.

Fines started at 3000. Written against the company. My own logs was literally only two days old that week, a couple of minutes eyeballing my stuff including the 99K virginia permit which was valid but laughed at. Then was told that maryland was open and need to work around that problem. Otherwise more tickets.

It was not a good day in dispatchville when I arrived late that night. They paid it. No problems. That load went overseas. So... Ive wondered how the european trucks fared with it. If they were smart, stick it on a train well car.

 

A fix it ticket doesn't go on the mvr. It's not a moving violation. I didn't see anywhere that op posted he got inspected. so nothing for company to sign and return.

Basically, I don't see anyone finding out.

 

If it was written on a inspection company has to sign and send in!!

 

I got stopped last week in CA running down the I-5, just south of Sacramento. There were 3 trucks and I was the last one. There were 4 CHP officers, the commercial vehicle enforcement types, and they were shooting radar. We were all doing 58 mph, so no real problem there, or so I thought.

A few minutes later, I check my mirror and I see red and blue coming up on me, so I pull over. I get out and make my way back to the trailer where the CHP officer is already at, looking at the trailer tires. He quickly points out 2 tires that had flat spots on them, one was even worn down to the steel cords! He said he heard it as I drove by and it makes sense in retrospect.

Anyway, I was placed OOS and told to drive to the rest area 5 miles away to get 2 new tires. The paper work indicates a road side inspection was performed, which it was and the violations were driving on tires with less than 2/32" of tread. I received a fix it ticket for the whole thing, which I sent back to the CHP office, along with the repair order from Wingfoot indicating the OOS were corrected.

I then completed my trip and delivered the product in San Diego, scanned in the paperwork back to the company, including all inspection reports and the fix it ticket.

So the lesson learned on my part is this:

1. I thought I did a decent pretrip inspection on the trailer I picked up, I checked all the tire pressures and they were good, all at 100 psi. The flat spots were impossible to find because the tire was in such a position to make them not visible. From now on, I will move the trailer enough to see all the tire tread.

Some unknowns at this point:

Will I accrue 16 CSA points for the 2 tire violations? Bad tires are one of the worst things when it comes to CSA, but this was a fix it ticket.

Will any of this show up on my MVR, PSP or any other report they database on CDL drivers?

Known facts:

1. The company will get the CSA violations and not be happy about it.
2. The CHP officer wasn't out to get me and and overall it was a pleasant stop, albeit one that no driver likes.
3. The tire guy said the tires would cost the company over $600 when it was all said and done.
4. Pulling different company pool trailers frequently makes you more likely to get a violation of any type than if you pull the same exact trailer day in and day out.
5. The whole ordeal took over 5 hours of my time, which is another freebie that company drivers don't get compensated for mostly.

 

Tire violations carry x amount of points.
OOS carries 2 extra points

This all goes on your company's CSA score
It also shows up on your PSP report for 3 years.
Should you move on to another company the PSP stays with you
and the CSA of it stays with the old company which will carry it for only 2 years.