Tractor Trailer OOS List

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by farmerjohn64, Jul 14, 2020.

  1. G13Tomcat

    G13Tomcat Road Train Member

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    Yep, it's always the 'little things.' I'm picky AF with the trailers I pick up, loaded or non. Yep. Being a 'daycab' (night) driver, I thoroughly pre and post trip, and if something on the tractor is NOT right, I red tag it, DVIR it, and it's fixed by the a.m. mechanic by the time I roll out. I've got too many years in the books w/this career to let a 'little' misnomer... trip me up.
     
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  3. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    Appreciate the answer(s)
     
  4. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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  5. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    Idk maybe riding on a giant dildo or something would be distracting lol basically what you would have sitting on the frame like a midget
     
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  6. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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    Maybe... every reg exists because somebody ####ed it up, so I guess I'm just curious as to what the story on this one is
     
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  7. drivingmissdaisy

    drivingmissdaisy Road Train Member

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    You guys must be a rare breed. In the years of driving that I have, the number of drivers I've seen getting out and doing ANY kind of pretrip, even just to check the kingpin to make sure nobody pulled their lever, could be held up on one hand. And that includes thousands of different truck stops around the country.

    I think a lot of you guys talk the talk but I sure the hell don't see many of you walking the walk.
     
  8. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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    Let's put it this way... if someone doesn't care enough about their job to do it right, why would they bother joining a forum dedicated to said job? Window lickers be the epitome of peak laziness, and unfortunately there's a couple hundred of them for every one of us who give a ####
     
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  9. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    If I wouldn’t have done a pre trip on the two empty’s I was sent to pick up today at the terminal I would’ve rolled off with a flat tire on the first one, or a broken crossmember on the second and only god knows what else because I didn’t have to finish either one to keep looking for a good one
     
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  10. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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    Yeah, that'll do it. ESPECIALLY at Western. I have to laugh at the number of times I got rental trailers during my time there because I kept rejecting and red tagging trailer after trailer :rolleyes:
     
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  11. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    Hell I missed pickup today because of all that, must be nice being an idiot lol
     
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