What am I responsible for?

What do you mean it doesn't have emergency brake? Is this dump truck air or hydraulic?

 

Jesus. I take the opposite approach... If my deadbeat extended family knew I was doing as well as I'm doing I'd be having to turn down their requests for cash on a weekly basis.

EDIT: Obviously this guy wasn't meant to be in the trucking business... Not nearly paranoid enough. How the first thing that went through his head wasn't 'this woman wants to rob me' I'll never know. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth". That saying about not over examining gift horses was dumb about horses (horses cost a lot to maintain!) and is way way dumber about trucking.

 

The problem is what I'm reading into these posts and shown in this one sentence is that he isn't in the trucking business, he is in the construction business. Many are thinking that this is an issue with trucking and a lax owner, but the truth seems to be the guy looks at everything as one business, not as we would look at it. The owner is cheap, maybe, but the driver is the one who is responsible to make it a point to get it fix, it is his/her license on the line if something happens.

So as I said to the OP, find another job, don't bother trying to rescue the owner or his company from this issue.

 

I will say that some bad owners can be retrained, if a driver helps them to understand the importance of the situation, or they at least realize that keeping a good driver is worth investing in the truck. This is probably rare, but I have been through it lol

Also, by writing it up, and pursuing repairs, you have covered your rear, and company refusal to provide a safe and legal truck after documented request, is a much better reason for leaving than "they didn't keep their trucks very nice, so I quit".

 

Yeah I get that but as I said in another post, this isn't a trucking job, it is a construction job.

The problem is that the owner of the company isn't concern with a equipment violation as someone would be with an authority, they'll just fire the guy and then if the guy complains to the state, it will be his word against the owner's which can turn ugly.

The best thing for the driver is just to find another job.