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The latest news can be found on the 804 Members United website where there's a story on this incident. There's another article that spells out our legal right to refuse to operate unsafe vehicles.
Feeder driver fired for refusing unsafe trailer?
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local804
Well-Known Member
amazing, totally amazing...
you ever driven a uhaul truck i rented on the had almost a million
tieguy
Banned
local804
Well-Known Member
From talk around the buildings, he is facing a few different problems since that incident. I gave this website to the driver, hope he registers.
tourists24
Well-Known Member
well now there's a shocker... what kind of problems?
Yeah, interesting... what kinda problems?
trickpony1
Well-Known Member
probably important stuff like:
-did he brush his teeth?
-are his shoes polished and laced correctly?
-are his clothes clean and pressed?
....and anything else they can nit pick just for the sheer thrill of retaliation.
cachsux
Wah
One way would be for the cracks to be visible from the side of the pad. We tag MTs from the rail yard this way from time to time.
UPS804driver
Member
In this post you ask 2 questions that really scare me and leave me with two questions for you. You state that you are a shifter( I would ponder you move trailers in your yard) Do you do a pretrip on your trailer and do you have a commercial A (tractor trailer license)? I you are a shifter and dont pretrip your equiptment, plase tell me what building you work out of so incase I am in the area, i will stay far away from the shifter cab when you guys come my way. Checking the brake pads for cracks and thickness is part of the pretrip and part of our NYS commercial driving written test and road test infront of a NYS inspector. We are then trained by UPS to check for the same following things under our UPS directed pretrip. During our state test, we have to visually inspect the pads and state to the instrucor what is NOT wrong with the item. (example) the rim is in good condition,is not cracked and there is no weld spots on the rim. The brake pads are proper thickness and they are not damaged or cracked.I would hope that you know what you are inspection before you drive that shifter and make sure you know what you are signing when you fill out your ddr. So to answer your question NO, you do not have to take off the tire to see that the brake pads are cracked. I would ask to get re pita certified if I were you because it seems like they left out the pretrip training part of it.
freeloader
geek
I don't work for UPS anymore, but I was a shifter for about 5 years. Never had a CDL and never needed one to be a shifter. The only equipment I had to pretrip was the yardhorse. As a matter of fact, when I was a shifter (this was about 10 years ago), we broke all kinds of rules as directed by management. Never wore a seatbelt because it slows you down (jumping in and out of the yardhorse). Only used the red line because hooking up the yellow line and lights took too long. Those were only a couple of shortcuts that we took on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure that's all changed by now though.
Regarding the brake pads - I was just unaware that you could view the entire brake pad without having to take off the tire. When I look at the disc brakes on my car, I can only see a small part of the brake pad, the rest is covered by the caliper. I am guessing that drum brakes allow you to see the entire brake pad or maybe just a cross section so that cracks can be easily spotted?
tieguy
Banned
All yard shifters need to be pretripped every day. PITO requirement. If you have any irreg tugs they also have to be pretripped every day.
gse= ground support equipment, all equipment used in a airport situation, tugs, belt loaders, k loaders, pushbacks
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