How to interpret brake test
#11
03-17-2008, 10:05 AM
Originally Posted by kc0iv
Originally Posted by mdgardner963
Even more over the volvo's has a short in the dash they were all recalled also if you have that big drop i would think of a bad pod if the rubber glad hand. ( i carry rubber spares) If a company made you take a week off because of a problem they may be in vioation of dot rules i would check it out.
Many times i stood up and called a POS a POS and refused to drive it. Most not all will fix it and some will even be happy you found a problem. I drove with Mike Lowery for about 2 weeks befor i told them were they could put there truck.. to many good companies out there OTR and Local to put up with bad equipment.. Sometimes you have to teach a lession to them, Its an excellent idea to have a dot bear or station look over junk.. Tell them everything you told the company and they will give the company greef and not implicate you in the process. :twisted: the Bottom line is you are the driver and the one who will do the time no matter what else you are responable.. Plus just because you claim the company has poor equipment doesn't mean D.O.T. is going to do a site inspection or increase truck inspections at the scale. It doesn't work that way. kc0iv
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#12
03-17-2008, 01:24 PM
Originally Posted by mdgardner963
Originally Posted by kc0iv
Originally Posted by mdgardner963
Even more over the volvo's has a short in the dash they were all recalled also if you have that big drop i would think of a bad pod if the rubber glad hand. ( i carry rubber spares) If a company made you take a week off because of a problem they may be in vioation of dot rules i would check it out.
Many times i stood up and called a POS a POS and refused to drive it. Most not all will fix it and some will even be happy you found a problem. I drove with Mike Lowery for about 2 weeks befor i told them were they could put there truck.. to many good companies out there OTR and Local to put up with bad equipment.. Sometimes you have to teach a lession to them, Its an excellent idea to have a dot bear or station look over junk.. Tell them everything you told the company and they will give the company greef and not implicate you in the process. :twisted: the Bottom line is you are the driver and the one who will do the time no matter what else you are responable.. Plus just because you claim the company has poor equipment doesn't mean D.O.T. is going to do a site inspection or increase truck inspections at the scale. It doesn't work that way. kc0iv Second would be be placed out-of-service. Where the driver gets to honor of setting at some scale waiting for a service truck to come and make the repairs or for a tow truck to haul it to the repair shop. In either case the driver lost money. And the company more than likely issue the driver a service failure. As I said before if D.O.T. does an inspection and finds a defect he/she is going to issue a ticket. And if it bad enough the driver will get the honor of paying a nice fine. The ticket goes to the driver not the company. It will be up to the company if they want to reimburse the driver. In some states the ticket has to be paid before the driver can leave the inspection location. And you won't have any excuses once you leave the lot. I know this as a fact. I had a ticket for a trailer I was pulling (I was an O/O) but I was pulling a company trailer. The company said they would take care of it. About a two month later I had the highway patrol show up at my house with a warrant for my arrest. I was taken to the court house and had to pay the fine before I could leave. As I said before. The driver has only one recourse is to NOT drive the equipment. kc0iv
#13
03-17-2008, 02:45 PM
As I said before if D.O.T. does an inspection and finds a defect he/she is going to issue a ticket. And if it bad enough the driver will get the honor of paying a nice fine. The ticket goes to the driver not the company. It will be up to the company if they want to reimburse the driver. In some states the ticket has to be paid before the driver can leave the inspection location.
And you won't have any excuses once you leave the lot. I know this as a fact. I had a ticket for a trailer I was pulling (I was an O/O) but I was pulling a company trailer. The company said they would take care of it. About a two month later I had the highway patrol show up at my house with a warrant for my arrest. I was taken to the court house and had to pay the fine before I could leave. As I said before. The driver has only one recourse is to NOT drive the equipment. kc0iv[/color] Not true if the company has owner responsabilty they get the ticket your off the hook.. When i drove for Mike Willams fuel they had one i never got a ticket for anything at all.. so it really depends on what who and how.. I have went to a scale house and told them what was happening at one company i worked the company got a ticket i got a big thank you for it. Never the less anything that happens in an unsafe truck is the drivers fault once he/she moves it.. I do agree with that heck i even watched one guy call the highway patrol they cam and did a complete inspection in the yard.. Thats why i said Get a DOT bear one that drives call him in and have a chat. to many people drive and do understand bottom line its always the drivers fault once moved.. There are many many many ways to get around driving the equipment even better yet even more ways to get a bad company in trouble. Class of 1972. :twisted: Think outside the box... I do agree with what you said but i do disagree on the way to get a problem solved there has to be recourse. For that driver listen if the company is treating you badly pm me i got tons of connections i can get you a decent job. I just know people i do not recruit or even want to never accepted any money for helping as well or even refering. Personaly i would be running from a company who did not care about the equipment.. But thats not to say things just get missed.... :twisted:
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