Just some of the stupid things I see

One problem here, and we'll have it for several years...$1 bills still have *no* security features, i guess they figure they're not worth enough to bother. There are also still quite a few higher denomination bills that are old enough to not have security features. You wash out the $1 bill like you said, and reprint as a $20, which still is low enough that most people dont check too closely on it.

I remember a while back I spent some american money at a canadian walmart, and they were all holding it up to the light and all, even a $1 bill...i thought they were going to reject it, hahaha....no security strips... Also, just being courteous, i pointed out the new feature on the $20s with the second watermarked picture of the president.

 

So how was road check for you DB? Should have been an interesting week for you.
My company kept sending out status reports. The last one I got was that we had had 88 trucks inspected, no OOS.
The violations that were noted on them were speeding, lights, fire ext strap not secure, and log form and manner.

Honestly we should not have gotten most of those. The company has been sending out these reports allot the last few months. Every driver in the company should know to check that fire ext strap every day, we get that one allot.
The lights are hit or miss. We drop and hook allot, I find them with lights out on occasion and fix them, but out of 10,000 trailers we only probably have 30 with a light out at any point in time.
Speeding.......we are governed at 64 or less. That is what causes most of our tickets. The drivers are use to going with foot to floor all the time, it is a bad habit I refuse to get.
Logs form and manner. I do on occasion forget to put my mileage on at the end of the day. And I drop and hook allot, so I forget at times to put the current trailer down and load number. Always remember by the end of the day, but I do not do it when I should allot of the time. It is stupid that it counts as driver fatigue though. When it is just forgetfulness most of the time.

 

Reminds me of something I heard on TV. They said the reason mexico doesn't compete in the olympics is everyone that can run, jump or swim has pretty much already left the country...

 

I left something important out on that post. I meant, you wash a $1 bill and reprint as an older $20 bill. $20s that are old enough to not have security features are still circulating.

 

Busy, but it usually is every day anyway. Seeing a lot of junk tires and log issues. Brake componets were most of my OOS this week.

 

Hey DB or any other trooper....How long are we supposed to keep our "Dailies' for Terminal Inspection purposes?

I had a Biennial Terminal Inspection (BIT) back in '08 and the CHP officer was a tad upset that I just had 8, The current day and 7 previous days in my carrier's binder....
He wanted 30 days worth......I told him the rest were in the file cabinet back at my house 7 miles away from my yard....but he didn't want to drive over there since he was training 4 other officers in the finer points of inspections....

What's the actual requirement?

 

Brick is right. Driver needs last 8 days on hand. Feds require the carrier to keep the logs for 6 months though.

 

You're right, at roadside just need the 8.

 

I latch mine whenever I open my side box--it is ALWAYS undone thanks to the poor quality of the latch. But... it's made in China, so what else would I expect.

I thought perhaps I might put a dab of JB weld on it to hold it secure, I mean, it's not as if I'd ever try to use that tiny little thing to put out a fire.

When a DOT officer asks to check your fire extinguisher, he's not really checking to see that you have one--he's checking to see if the strap on your cheap Chinese-made piece of crap is undone like all the rest of them... no good inspection for you, Mr. Bad Outlaw truck driver!