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[quad decade guy]

Ive already gone down that road with backed off parking brakes on package cars. So many drivers think they know it all and think an autimatic park position is a substitute. They think the sun shines out their ass and management does nothing to curb it despite me notifying them.
Plus the willingness to pull the useless park brake tells me they are willing to try and throw me under the bus when it isnt there when they need it. I am done trying to engage with them about things they should allready have been trained on and primarily affect their safety and not mine.

I am sympathetic. Your experience is mine. Except when that pkg. car rolls away and kills an innocent person of any kind.

 

[quad decade guy]

Get what?

Yeah, I'm such a dirtbag that I saw a part-timer(in the hub) in heat distress(over100 degrees). I offered to escort her to an air conditioned space(she declined). I then went to the full time sup. and said she is in heat distress-watch her. Gonna punch me in the face or quote Article 18?

 

[Jones]

.......and how many rotator cuff injuries?

Most rotator cuff injuries are from pulling the 5th wheel handle. If the safety committee wants to do something useful they could make sure that every tractor is equipped with a pin puller.

 

[Yeet]

Most rotator cuff injuries are from pulling the 5th wheel handle. If the safety committee wants to do something useful they could make sure that every tractor is equipped with a pin puller.

90% of the tractors I’ve been in had pin pullers. I’ve used one maybe a handful of times. I just can’t get it in my routine to use them.

 

[Jones]

90% of the tractors I’ve been in had pin pullers. I’ve used one maybe a handful of times. I just can’t get it in my routine to use them.

I always use a pin puller, that's a pretty serious end range motion doing it by hand. Doesn't take much to tear a rotator cuff when your arm is extended like that.

 

[olroadbeech]

90% of the tractors I’ve been in had pin pullers. I’ve used one maybe a handful of times. I just can’t get it in my routine to use them.

once you get it into your routine you'll wonder what took you so long. it saves you from getting grease on your uniform shoulder also.

 

[Mack37]

Last company I worked for started ordering all the tractors with air release fifth wheels. They’re nice, I wish they would just be industry standard already.

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

I had a pin puller, used it every time. Beats running your shirt sleeve over a grease covered hula skirt. Pin pullers don't guarantee anything. I tore my rotator cuff using one.

 

[Dracula]

Right. Tell that to management why it took you an hour to get off the yard and see how that goes.

If it takes an hour, it takes an hour. I’m mileage, and I never rush to get out. Most days I’m looking for load bars to secure my loads.

I leave when I’m ready, not a moment sooner.

 

[Knothead]

Yeah, I'm such a dirtbag that I saw a part-timer(in the hub) in heat distress(over100 degrees). I offered to escort her to an air conditioned space(she declined). I then went to the full time sup. and said she is in heat distress-watch her. Gonna punch me in the face or quote Article 18?

This guy...

 

[DothetruckshaveAC?]

Is anyone able to clarify mileage progression? Spoke with several stewards and have received different answers. I'm asking about article 43 section 2. I have been told If you didnt run a mileage job before August 1st the progression is still 4 years. The language on this one is confusing. "But will be paid the rates as set forth above"? So top mileage rate or not?

 

[Hadjabear]

View attachment 262965 Is anyone able to clarify mileage progression? Spoke with several stewards and have received different answers. I'm asking about article 43 section 2. I have been told If you didnt run a mileage job before August 1st the progression is still 4 years. The language on this one is confusing. "But will be paid the rates as set forth above"? So top mileage rate or not?

If you were on a mileage run before August 1, you are grandfathered into a 3 year progression until top rate and that progression pay is whatever year you are on in the 4 year progression scale(because it is a higher rate)

 

[brostalss]

90% of the tractors I’ve been in had pin pullers. I’ve used one maybe a handful of times. I just can’t get it in my routine to use them.

I just ordered a Huckleberry Hammer. Small compact pin puller.

 

[brostalss]

Back from a Sleeper to CACH. That place is crazy busy. If you aren't told how to get into the yard it'll take you forever to find the entrance.

The Dispatcher we dealt with was a total D-Bag. Stress monster.

 

[govols019]

The Dispatcher we dealt with was a total D-Bag.

In other words... typical.

 

[Covemastah]

• 
  It’s getting cold in Boston !!

 

[Mugarolla]

• View attachment 263302 It’s getting cold in Boston !!

Not in Ohio.

 

[Yeet]

View attachment 262965 Is anyone able to clarify mileage progression? Spoke with several stewards and have received different answers. I'm asking about article 43 section 2. I have been told If you didnt run a mileage job before August 1st the progression is still 4 years. The language on this one is confusing. "But will be paid the rates as set forth above"? So top mileage rate or not?

I’ll have to ask one of the mileage guys as they’re flying by me on the highway.

 

[Yeet]

Not in Ohio.

View attachment 263303

Nice KW.

 

[Mugarolla]

Nice KW.

It's alright.

Can't stand all the bells and whistles. The proximity warning, the lane deviation, the lack of get up and go, even when I manually shift it, the vibration in all the junk plastic in here.