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<blockquote data-quote="retiredTxfeeder" data-source="post: 1613681" data-attributes="member: 52978">I had a dispatcher call me in the office once when my night was almost complete..&nbsp; He told me they had an overflow and he had to have me take a single to a meet point about 2 hours away from our hub.&nbsp; He threw me some keys and told me to take this tractor.&nbsp; You are already late.&nbsp; Don&#039;t bother to pretrip, just go.&nbsp; I was new to feeders.&nbsp; I got to the meet point and there were several drivers from my building already waiting on some drivers from Mesquite and Dallas.&nbsp; I drop my load and go over to hang out with the other drivers to wait.&nbsp; One of the guys asked me if they had fixed the flat on that tractor I was in.&nbsp; I checked it and one of the inside duals was flat.&nbsp; The driver told me he had caught it and refused to drive it.&nbsp; I asked him who he had talked to about it and he told me the same guy who had dispatched me.&nbsp; So he had dispatched me with a tractor who he knew had a flat, and told me not to pretrip it.&nbsp; I was pist, and raised hell when I came back in.&nbsp; I know it was my fault for not pretripping. I learned a big lesson. I never did that again.&nbsp; Bottom line is, management will tell you most anything to get their arse covered, to hell with your safety, or the safety of the general public.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="retiredTxfeeder, post: 1613681, member: 52978"] I had a dispatcher call me in the office once when my night was almost complete.. He told me they had an overflow and he had to have me take a single to a meet point about 2 hours away from our hub. He threw me some keys and told me to take this tractor. You are already late. Don't bother to pretrip, just go. I was new to feeders. I got to the meet point and there were several drivers from my building already waiting on some drivers from Mesquite and Dallas. I drop my load and go over to hang out with the other drivers to wait. One of the guys asked me if they had fixed the flat on that tractor I was in. I checked it and one of the inside duals was flat. The driver told me he had caught it and refused to drive it. I asked him who he had talked to about it and he told me the same guy who had dispatched me. So he had dispatched me with a tractor who he knew had a flat, and told me not to pretrip it. I was pist, and raised hell when I came back in. I know it was my fault for not pretripping. I learned a big lesson. I never did that again. Bottom line is, management will tell you most anything to get [I]their[/I] arse covered, to hell with your safety, or the safety of the general public. [/QUOTE]

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