Taking a Mid Trip inspection

it will take the dispatching folks to help out...

No inspection, no dispatch

 

Does Dispatch care about midtrip inspections? Does Dispatch get any type of punishment for drivers missing or skipping midtrip inspections?

If not, Dispatch is not going to take midtrip inspections into account when they schedule the trucks. Or they are going to tell the drivers to skip it "Cause it's not important, You gotta go, Yer LATE!"

Stop blaming the drivers until you understand the Dispatch culture.

 

What's the big deal anyway? Is the pre and post trips not enough? If it's not and too many trucks are breaking down, those drivers need to be written up for not doing a proper pretrip.

 

Should be able to find that on the protip or post trip reports.

Do your drivers get paid for Breakdown? Or does reporting an issue cost your drivers money due to sitting while the repair takes place?

 

The only real way to fix drivers not doing inspections is to hire better drivers. Easier said than done. I have 4-5 that I would like to find employment elsewhere. Cold seats don't make money..

 

Ok, so you are calling a 3rd party inspection a mid trip? (Even if the 3rd party is the company shop)

Do the drivers get paid? If not I can see the reluctance. See if management will agree to toss in $25 - $50 depending on how long it takes. Pay the driver for their time and the issues tend to become minor.

 

We were required to do a pre & post, before and after a 10 hr. break & log it for 15 minutes. If we didn't, it went in our record and has bearing on whether we're fired or not if some incident/accident occurs.
That's not federally required, but it was company policy and perfectly legal.
I couldn't care less; if that's what the company wants; no big deal.