my USXpress experience

We have a couple of Volvos we train on and the trolley is on the dashboard to the right of the steering wheel now that I think of it.

 

Why did you remove the chock from a trailer that wasn't fully loaded yet. Those are there to prevent exactly what happened in this situation.

 

Don't spend the money on attorney...you can write a rebuttal challenging what USX put on your DAC report, and they will enter it on your report, and perspective employers will see your side of the issue when your DAC is pulled. Its a heck of alot cheaper then hiring an attorney. Just my 02.

 

The spring break in the break chambers get week on every truck over time. When hooked to a trailer and u use both the red and the yellow break valves u would never know the tractor parking break didn t work. With a bobtail tractor they probably would hold because the spring were only weak. This is nothing that would found in a pre trip. With any auto tranny truck I've ever seen u cant put the truck in gear with the break on to "tug" on the breaks, and doing a trailer tug with the trolley valve or johnny bar only checks the trailer break operation so I don't see how that's even relevant if the truck had one. Unfortunately the only way your going to find weak spring breaks is when the truck rolls when it s not supposed to

 

Wrong. What's stopping you from setting the truck brakes, releasing the trailer brakes, and then trying to pull forward? If you move, your truck parking brakes need service. Very simple.

 

I have seen drivers run over chocks many times. I don't understand it really. If you go to pull forward and the truck doesn't want to move, find out why! Don't just sit there slipping the hell out of the clutch until you finally drag the trailer up and over the chock. Sometimes people just don't use their heads.