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<blockquote data-quote="want to retire" data-source="post: 1022589"><p>For a little perspective-I am a certified aircraft mechanic(A&P). Not a heavy truck mechanic but can assure you I'm more than qualified to comment. OK. You are not piloting a space shuttle nor pre-tripping to PMI standards. It can be overdone and underdone. I think by any standard, crawling underneath is overdoing it. Generally, your intensive inspection is taking more time than is necessary and won't(generally) decrease road calls and the like. Maybe a few.....maybe. And no, it's not worth it to the company. When I first started driving(long time ago)(for UPS) the pkg car/feeder etc. would come out of PMI with most of the road grime and accumulated grease still intact, untouched. How could this be? Preventative Maintenance Inspection......they take it all apart right? Nope. I have assumed the mechanics would repair a glaring problem when the vehicle was in for something else.....Nope, not written up.....not fixed. We used to wash our own tractors as part of our end of day routine. My tractor was covered in grease and grime as it leaked about 8 qts. a day(you read that right). I could spend all day, every day cleaning it. In the end, wash the windshield and call it a day. </p><p></p><p> Can you be disciplined for excessive pre-trip inspections? I believe you can. Especially after being told not to do it. I'm no homer, but UPS's pre-trip is adequate. It aligns with DOT and I can assure you, has been exhaustively tested and refined until what we have today. I can assure you DOT is quite aware of it and approves. My advice(again), get a written checklist(from mgt.) and follow it to the letter. I'd bet, that checklist gets put away with all the other seeing-habits and ten-point commentary's and blah blah. Pilots have an old saying of "kick the tires and light the fires".....it's really about like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="want to retire, post: 1022589"] For a little perspective-I am a certified aircraft mechanic(A&P). Not a heavy truck mechanic but can assure you I'm more than qualified to comment. OK. You are not piloting a space shuttle nor pre-tripping to PMI standards. It can be overdone and underdone. I think by any standard, crawling underneath is overdoing it. Generally, your intensive inspection is taking more time than is necessary and won't(generally) decrease road calls and the like. Maybe a few.....maybe. And no, it's not worth it to the company. When I first started driving(long time ago)(for UPS) the pkg car/feeder etc. would come out of PMI with most of the road grime and accumulated grease still intact, untouched. How could this be? Preventative Maintenance Inspection......they take it all apart right? Nope. I have assumed the mechanics would repair a glaring problem when the vehicle was in for something else.....Nope, not written up.....not fixed. We used to wash our own tractors as part of our end of day routine. My tractor was covered in grease and grime as it leaked about 8 qts. a day(you read that right). I could spend all day, every day cleaning it. In the end, wash the windshield and call it a day. Can you be disciplined for excessive pre-trip inspections? I believe you can. Especially after being told not to do it. I'm no homer, but UPS's pre-trip is adequate. It aligns with DOT and I can assure you, has been exhaustively tested and refined until what we have today. I can assure you DOT is quite aware of it and approves. My advice(again), get a written checklist(from mgt.) and follow it to the letter. I'd bet, that checklist gets put away with all the other seeing-habits and ten-point commentary's and blah blah. Pilots have an old saying of "kick the tires and light the fires".....it's really about like that. [/QUOTE]
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