A very unprofessional Driver
 

Friday afternoon, I pull into the brake check station before heading east bound down monteagle, the US Express truck in front of me stops at the light, and I tell him on the c/b that he has no brake lights on his trailer, he says thanks and heads off down the mountain, not a care that he might cause a wreck, maybe he couldnt have fixed them, but he didnt even bother to try. since he was empty ( judging by the way he took off) and I was loaded I couldnt get his truck number, I would have called us express and voiced my complaint about this lazy uncaring steering wheel holder, I imagine he had one of 2 thoughts, either, he was dropping the trailer and figured someone else could worry about it, or he was heading to the shop and figured they could fix it and he didnt need to bother, either way, it was very unsafe thing to do, I hope he made it okay. and I hope everyone behind him made it also

gotta agree on this point. It could have been as simple as a loose pigtail. More than likely he was at the end of his shift and figured someone else could deal with it.

WoW ! Gee, I also hope he and everyone else made it... This guy sounds like a maniac... :roll:

I'm sure you did a thorough brake inspection... :wink:

Or, maybe he was already aware of it, tried his best to fix it, was unsuccessful and was headed to the shop. Myself, I don't run into vehicles in front of me whether or not they have brake lights.

Thank you!

1st let me say i work for usx, now with that said that driver was an a$$
Fredog all you needed was the trailer #in red and call safety @ 800-601-5500 thy can find him with just the trailer #,

it doesn't matter if his day was almost done or not what he should have done was stop and call breakdown. thy would have sent someone out to fix it. that's what thy are for. and thy DON"T EVER tell you to drive "without brake lites" until you can get by a shop....!

i wish you had the trailer #, drivers that care that little for others safety don't need to be on the road. and yes i would have turned him in if i told him he didn't have brake lites and pulled out of the brake check station anyway. it's about safety not who he works for.

We seem to have allot of that out here anymore! Going though OK today, there was a container hauler ahead of me, no brake light on one side, and no turn signal on the other, and a flat inside rear to boot! Called him on the radio, and he actually answered, told him of the issues, and guess what the response was ....!

Ahhh, I ain't worried about it, the company will pay the fine!

That was not the point, but oh well, guess we cannot fix stupid!

Although I hate calling in on another driver, sometimes they just deserve it! About a month ago had to call in on a Schneider truck coming out of Laredo, the right brake chamber on the rear axle was hanging from the air lines, :shock: , just a little beyond unsafe on that one. Since Schnieders dispatched did not seem to care, claiming that the trailer number I gave them could not be on the road, since it was in the shop, hmm :?, Texas DPS was more than happy to dispatched 2 units to intercept this unfortunate and uncaring driver. Sure he will do a better pre-trip next time!

Picked up one of our trailers that had been across the border, had to replace the license plate light, one clearance light and one taillight before I could roll yesterday. Certainly you cannot expect the drivers across the border to pre-trip a trailer, now could you?

Later all,

Its hard to pre trip a trailer that the Mexicans are stripping of lights and every other lose object on the trailer,you should just be lucky the trailer came back! Maybe we should let Mexican trucks up here then we could get the parts they stole back! :twisted:

i agree, no brake lights are bad but cause an accident?? can you say unassured clear distance?

Wow
 

Company will pay the fine? what an attitude.

My company not only didnt pay those fines, i once got written up for having a flat. I did an honest to god pti (tires lights etc). Left up near rittman, oh. Pulling through scales they stopped me, wrote me up and made me get it changed. The morons in safety at my company decided i should have psychicly (sp?) known. I was about to yell at them when i got there but a buddy was there and we started laughing about it so hard i just left.

On the other hand the guy going down ME may have known and had to take it to a shop to fix.

On a side note i seriously dont get why people freak out so much over monteagle. It isnt even in the top 5 most dangerous stretches in the SE imho.

Dont feel bad about it. you may have saved a life. sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do..

Doesn't matter that nobody should run into the back of you, it does happen, a lot. When it happens, DOT is going to show up and write you for not having tail lights and then they will go ahead and start checking the rest of your unit over to see what else is wrong. That fellow truck driver may hold his distance so as not to run into you, but as Fredog said, what about BBR or those pesky 4 wheelers who aren't paying attention until it's too late.

Neighbor was in a head-on in his dump truck, driver in a Caddy was determined to have committed suicide. Neighbor got cited for having his tag light burnt out even though it had nothing to do with the crash.

i guess too bad for them for not paying attention and tailgaiting. by the way i did not say he was ok driving with no brake lights, it was stupid.

8) How do you know it was the driver with the faulty break lights that came on the radio? You know there are 1or 2 jerks out there just waiting to ste :twisted: w the chit!

Re: A very unprofessional Driver
 

A complete and utter arsehole eh? Too many of em on the road these days. Sad to say