Pre-trip & Post-trip reports

Lets say you are off duty all day untill 8:00 pm, then you are to begin a trip somewhere. At 8 pm, a flag is shown for the PTI, then driving from 8-12 midnight. Obviously, in this senario there has not been a 15 min inspection logged. So, are we supposed to stop at 11:45 pm just to do a vehicle inspection? It would make more sense to just log the 15 min insp from 8:00-8:15......Then again, that would make far too much sense to be applied in todays world. Man, this is profoundly deep stuff!

 

I'am A Newbee,but Going To School Our Instructor Who Did Everything By The Book Told Us Pti Inspect Everything Fill Out Report If There Is Somthing Major Wrong Get It Fixed.you Can't Always See Problems In Darkness No Mater How Bright The Flash Light Is.filling Out That Report After Pti Will Insure If Stopped By D.o.t. You Are Doing Your Job.some Drivers Think All They Have To Do Is Drive From Point A To B There Wrong.post Trip, Inspect Everything, 15 Min On Logs Must Be Shown For Both If Not Shown D.o.t Could Fine You.also Mvi Every 3 Hrs Or 150 Mi. For A Box,less For A Flat Bed.must Be Shown In Logs Mvi Is For Walk Around Inspection Takes Less Than 10 Min.besides You Need To Get Out And Stretch Those Legs.they Always Said If Your To Laze To Do This Every Day You Should Not Be Behind The Wheel.i Don't Know Why Any Co.would Not Make There Drivers Fill Out Reports Or Why Drivers Wouldn't Want To It's The Only Way To Cover Your ###. If Something Goes Wrong

 

Wrong, must show at least 15 min for pretrip, but I do not show 15 min on post. I flag it only. This is our co policy and I have had level 3 inspections by DOT

 

Stopping every 3 hours or 150 miles for a motor vehicle inspection? Where are you guys getting this stuff???

Maybe it would be ultimately the safest to just never even leave the yard to begin with.

 

We do load checks every 150 miles, 5o after a load. I do 1 hr and then 3 hours. I think the poster meant load checks not vehicle inspect. 150 miles is DOT regs.

 

Ah, yes, flatbedding. That explains it better.

 

Imagine, you are pulling a van and a young DOT officer stops you and asks when the last time you checked your load was. You just point to the seal and say how do you check it?

 

NoTarps hauls flatbed and they do check them more often and I believe there is a requirement on that.