Taking a Mid Trip inspection

A half a day of listening to drivers in the break room or in the shop yakking and carrying on about dispatcher sam, wrechie Billy or despot VP upstairs etc will give you a world of information.

If the equiptment is not doing well additional inspections will only beat a dead horse until equiptment is either replaced or taken care of.

Drivers generally will not be bothered to worry about something that gains them nothing or particularly damning gains them more time in the office with the OP Explaining why the trailer is in bad shape at the drop yard.

If by some miracle you paid drivers a flat salary *Imagines a figure out of a hat... $2000 a week and required all of these things of them and the equiptment is top notch leaving the shop with hardly anything to do then alls well. Not at .34 a mile or dispatches to the 10 minute window of being late against appt for whatever delay; including ELD ticktocks. The reward is potentially not hiring any driver for years. (To paraphrase)

 

I inspect my truck, trailer, cargo, and securement several times a day. Takes just a few minutes and is a goos way to stretch the old joints and stay mobile vs stiffen up from driving non stop for 8 hours.

That being said, if I was told I needed to stop by a 3rd party to do it, that few minutes would become an hour easy in which case you'd be looking for a new driver.

 

"Social distancing violation... two weeks penalty!"

 

try that with the whole fleet................

 

You guys really dont know what a mid-trip is? A mid-trip is an inspection buy a mechanic at a shop, done between oil changes, hence “mid trip”. They GREASE THE TRUCK, check and top off fluids, check hoses, belts, tires, and brakes. You all acting like you do a full inspection every day ask yourself how many times you see a hood open at a truck stop. You know you ain’t greasing the truck so what’s a company supposed to do but require a driver to get a mid trip in between oil changes, which is upwards of 60,000 miles nowadays.

 

Did you even read what the OP posted? They want them to stop every week to get the lights checked, nothing about greasing or topping fluids off.

 

Yeppers. Gotta love people that reopen a thread that's 1 1/2 years old and be dead wrong in what they are saying....

 

I’m right you are wrong, as per usual.

 

Sounds more like a PM service.
An "A" level service.

I do a open hood pretrip inspection daily.
Call it required maintenance and schedule it for the driver based on their schedule.

 

My .02 on this, every few hours I stop to drain a kidney and stretch my legs, that includes grabbing my hammer and thumping tires and listening for leaks, while my ELD may not show a specific DVIR update, my ELD will show that I made that 3 or 4 minute stop, because I log it on-duty when I stop.