Pretrip your trailer!!

that's the way i'd feel as well. no telling how many other items they ignored

 

One guy says “That’s how you keep them from sqeeling right?”
Another guy is like “holy cow those are the brakes? I’ve been told they were back there but I never get around to walking that far away from the house to look for myself.” Lol.

 

Well I'm only going to have it for a day or two, so I just really don't see what the big deal is.

 

I’m with ya! I get it 100%. Pisses you off not only from the safety standpoint but the “l’m gonna let the other guy worry about it” standpoint. The other guy is ALWAYS you because you are what seems to be the only responsible one. So your responsibility costs you time and money everytime. Since you can’t babysit everyone else and make them do the right thing you just got to expect it and the only way to keep your sanity is laugh about it. As sad as it is.

 

I'd venture to guess that if safety actually did their job.

95% of truckers would be fired for not doing theirs.

Drivers that actually look and adjust is a very rare breed.

 

And then planning hates us because we're constantly in shop or breakdown status, or we constantly leave equipment tagged as such instead of leaving it showing as ready for the next guy... small price to pay for those clean inspections, though

 

Good to actually see inside and the issue. Lots of newbies would have no clue. More training on pre-trip with both good and bad rquipment is needed. Especially for those who've never done any 4 wheeler maintanence either.

 

Picked up a trailer(tanker) pretriped it and found a brake shoe hanging out of the drum.