Out of service for log book

An out of service order is not a no harm no foul situation.

 

Drug violation . Alcohol violation . Reckless . Handheld device . Seatbelt ,fatality , hit and run , equipment damage , not speeding under ten , overweight , over axle , a short line on a log book , anyone can be speed trapped , make a mistake . Turn the wrong way and get caught up . I’ve been shut down for logs , weight , compliance , equipment . I learned from all of it , never had a problem signing leases with reputable outfits like FEDEX. Or getting a job . My best friend and mentor was a guy out of California by the name of Jim Nary. Drove fifty years with his own numbers . I met him when he joined me at JBK pulling tankers in 2006. He still had his 1980 Pete 379 with a five and four . When he was hired on they asked him if you had ever been in a serious accident . His reply - he rolled his cab over on black dragon in Utah in 1980 in a snowstorm, went all the way down the side of the mountain and spent three months in a hospital . Never had an incident before then or after then. Sometimes #### happens. Just my opinion

 

Just because it isn't serious enough to drag the guy behind the courthouse and shoot him doesn't mean that it's a no harm no foul. There was harm done to the company by the OOS order.

 

Wasn't any 1980 379 Pete's. I also know plenty of idiots that can shift a 5x4. Rolling a cabover in a snowstorm is crap happens.

He made 2 I don't give a #### mistakes back to back. That shows he is careless and wreckless

 

1. It was a similar model if the 379 didn’t exist then 2. You’re wrong . And you’re trying to get in a pissin match over a transmission . And you have zero details about that accident . And a whole bunch of other things . Carry on

 

Oh wait let me back that up just to make you look extra special.

 

Look I am agreeing that rolling off a mountain one time can happen to any one. I was only making a point of a 5x4 doesn't make any one a good driver. You don't have details eitger or you would know that it was a 359 in 1980.

Now try and make another point with vague sketchy details would ya.

 

You sir are special, do another Google search. Truck paper prints what you tell them nothing more. You will find that 87 was the first year for 379 and the last for 359.

 

You’re hemming in on details that don’t matter super trucker. You’re calling a driver with a sixty year career and one accident careless . It’s ridiculous . The details are he had a brake saver . Before jakes, it was on the dash . He was following a line of Coors trucks up 50 and he always dangled his hands through the spokes of the steering wheel . He always meant to move the location of that brake saver but never got around to it . As far as he can guess he accidentally pulled down on the saver and he jack knifed . Have a good day hand

 

Being placed OOS hurts the owners number, which means more interactions with officials, which means more chances for this driver’s careless nature to come out in the future. I know what would happen where I work if someone got parked on their first trip, or got pulled over on a restricted route on their first trip. And I dang sure know what would happen if both things happened at the same time on their first trip.

And the 379 wasn’t in production until late 1987. A typo on a Truckpaper ad doesn’t mean they actually built them in 1980.

 

The breather hose going through the hood makes that a 359. All 379's go through the cowl

Farther details add to the proof there hot rod