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<blockquote data-quote="moontheloon1982" data-source="post: 409736" data-attributes="member: 18085"><p>I had a roll-away in an automatic 1300. It rolled about 4 feet at about a half a mile an hour.,so slowly that I couldnt feel it moving while I was in the back sorting packages. The shifter was broken on the car. It didnt always lock into park, so sometimes youd try to start it and nothing would happen until you pulled it down through the gears and then back up again. I wrote it up in my DVIR the first time it happened and the shop said they could not find a defective part to replace on the shifter and then did nothing else about it. when the roll away happened I again insisted that the shifter had malfunctioned, only to have the notion dismissed by a manager who thought I was just making up stories trying to save my own skin. Ispection of the vehicle found again no defective parts. I was basiclly called a liar and suspended for a week. The same car was back on the road the next day. That week another driver came back from a stop,turned the key and found it wouldn't start because it wasnt in park. This driver hadn't been made aware that the possibility of a defect even exsisted . Luckily he wasn't parked on an incline or it would have been another, possibly deadly, roll-away accident.</p><p>The driver wrote it up that day. the car was then pulled and the whole shifter assembly replaced. Of course it was my fault for not writing up the failing parking brake, but you never expect an automatic to roll away. It just doesnt happen. </p><p>It was just gross neglegence for the sup to let the car back on the road the next day after having been told and shown it was unsafe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moontheloon1982, post: 409736, member: 18085"] I had a roll-away in an automatic 1300. It rolled about 4 feet at about a half a mile an hour.,so slowly that I couldnt feel it moving while I was in the back sorting packages. The shifter was broken on the car. It didnt always lock into park, so sometimes youd try to start it and nothing would happen until you pulled it down through the gears and then back up again. I wrote it up in my DVIR the first time it happened and the shop said they could not find a defective part to replace on the shifter and then did nothing else about it. when the roll away happened I again insisted that the shifter had malfunctioned, only to have the notion dismissed by a manager who thought I was just making up stories trying to save my own skin. Ispection of the vehicle found again no defective parts. I was basiclly called a liar and suspended for a week. The same car was back on the road the next day. That week another driver came back from a stop,turned the key and found it wouldn't start because it wasnt in park. This driver hadn't been made aware that the possibility of a defect even exsisted . Luckily he wasn't parked on an incline or it would have been another, possibly deadly, roll-away accident. The driver wrote it up that day. the car was then pulled and the whole shifter assembly replaced. Of course it was my fault for not writing up the failing parking brake, but you never expect an automatic to roll away. It just doesnt happen. It was just gross neglegence for the sup to let the car back on the road the next day after having been told and shown it was unsafe. [/QUOTE]
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