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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Exactly. That's something I learned real quick, anything other than a smooth run will cost me $$$
Such as, about 1 out of every 5 trailers I pick up has some serious maint. issues, usually tires. Which means the driver who dropped the trailer either did not do a pretrip, or he declined to call it in, or the company did not follow through. So, Neal gets to locate a Wingfoot to change the tire, usually a 2 hour process.
But, there's not really much I can do, sure can't go forward with a tire like this.
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Yes sir, A nice fat DOT fine if you get pulled into a chicken coop and they see tires like those.
When I was on the road I was a driver and nothing more. I didn't change flat tires or unload trailers. Ever! My Co and I wasted way too much time waiting to have a maintenance gig fixed. My very first run was hooking to a trailer with a huge crack in the side rail. We refused to pull it until it was fixed. Luckily we were in the terminal in Carlisle, PA.
But, we have done drop and hooks at LTL yards and found the loaded trailer sitting there with one or more flat tires.
The outfit I pulled for was a stickler on maintenance and safety issues, so the flats were always on the driver/s who dropped the trailer.
Picked one up in A LTL yard in Chicago one time that had a glad hand completely separated from the nose of the trailer. Six hours later, it was fixed by a field mechanic. We didn't get paid by the hour for sitting there and it could have been fixed long before we got there if the previous driver had reported it.
