UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Dilli, what does crow taste like? Does it taste like chicken?
Dilli, what does crow taste like? Does it taste like chicken?
I'm amazed that we can already place the blame when we don't even know what the supposed mechanical problem was.
I seriously doubt a broken axle shaft caused the accident. A broken axle won't cause loss of control, it would just coast to a stop. Unless you have xray vision, you can't tell if an axle is broken unless you disassemble it.
I can't leave Socks out of it, the type of statement you made is what socks got beat up and moderated for.
Could the dolly have locked up or the kite tires have blown ? Both would have jacked the kite so quick that you would still have air pressure on the dash. Happened to me one time,felt kite lugging going down a hill got over fast as I could,then lost all pressure. I blew two tires on kite but got out of jack knife. Tires could of caught fire and taken out kite !!You guys make assumptions that the sup rushed the driver when my experience is that very few drivers can do a complete and thorough pretrip and our audits show drivers routinely miss DOT required items.Even with a sup riding with the driver the sup generally does not have the driver call out everything he is pre-trippiing. So a look in the general direction of the equipment is probably determined to be his checking the steering components. Axles and U joints are not always easy to catch on a pre-trip due to the reasons you list. My question would be what indication did they have while driving. If its an axle then you would think it gave off some vibration before it broke. Are we sure it was an axle? They usually do not break. If he had steering issues then it sounds more like he blew a steering tire. The other question is why the fire? I've seen some accidents where drivers flipped and rolled equipment and had no fire.
Got a little more info from the feeders news network. Mechanic in Daytona told them tha yard tractor would be ok and that they should take it.
Man, I'd hate to be that mechanic. Anyways, there was no further gossip about it around the Orlando hub that I heard.
Got a little more info from the feeders news network. Mechanic in Daytona told them tha yard tractor would be ok and that they should take it.
Hope some has taken pictures of the tractor after the accident..because Mgment will attempt to coverup the mechanical cause of the accident..In the Georgia Feeder Mgment present a pic of posted speed 55 and stated the driver was speeding, but the truth is the accident of the Georgia Feeder driver happen on I-75 where the speed zone was 70 mph which a union steward took pic of the actually area, and not Mgment area of the accident. REMEMBER MGMENT =ARE= TRAINED TO LIE IN ORDER TO DISCHARGE AN EMPLOYEE...
I'm amazed that we can already place the blame when we don't even know what the supposed mechanical problem was.
I seriously doubt a broken axle shaft caused the accident. A broken axle won't cause loss of control, it would just coast to a stop. Unless you have xray vision, you can't tell if an axle is broken unless you disassemble it.
I believe it was the front axle in question.
Got a little more info from the feeders news network. Mechanic in Daytona told them tha yard tractor would be ok and that they should take it.
Hope some has taken pictures of the tractor after the accident..because Mgment will attempt to coverup the mechanical cause of the accident..In the Georgia Feeder Mgment present a pic of posted speed 55 and stated the driver was speeding, but the truth is the accident of the Georgia Feeder driver happen on I-75 where the speed zone was 70 mph which a union steward took pic of the actually area, and not Mgment area of the accident. REMEMBER MGMENT =ARE= TRAINED TO LIE IN ORDER TO DISCHARGE AN EMPLOYEE...
Jesus could tell me he thought it was ok and I`d still pretrip the thing.