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Feeder driver fired for refusing unsafe trailer?
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<blockquote data-quote="mattwtrs" data-source="post: 341933" data-attributes="member: 1187"><p>I got thinking about some of the fiasco's I have witnessed with trailers over the years. Most of the time automotive management wants to put a band aid on the problem instead of fixing it right. The last incident happened in Jersey in below zero weather when the brakes caught on fire because of frozen air lines. The driver got the Meadowlands shop to fix??, unthaw the air lines. He lost over an hour on the BOP. The brakes started smoking again by the time he reached Parsipanny, into the shop again for another hour or so. he departed for meet point in Pennsylvania. Brakes started heating up again at the Delaware Water Gap Bridge. He went to a truckstop and called in. The UPS mechanic from the local center was dispatched to the truckstop to help assess the problem. Air lines froze up again. The truckstop shop said repairs couldn't be started for over 2 hours till other work in their shop was completed. The mechanic went back to the package center, got an empty trailer and some help. The trailer with the bad brakes was off loaded in 45 minutes in a parking lot. Why wasn't this done at either of the 2 Hubs were more resources were available? The driver lost over 3 hours, shop time was over 2 hours & the problem never was fixed. Like Pogo in the comic strip was fond of saying" We've met the enemy and it's us!" Almost every issue could be fixed with common sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattwtrs, post: 341933, member: 1187"] I got thinking about some of the fiasco's I have witnessed with trailers over the years. Most of the time automotive management wants to put a band aid on the problem instead of fixing it right. The last incident happened in Jersey in below zero weather when the brakes caught on fire because of frozen air lines. The driver got the Meadowlands shop to fix??, unthaw the air lines. He lost over an hour on the BOP. The brakes started smoking again by the time he reached Parsipanny, into the shop again for another hour or so. he departed for meet point in Pennsylvania. Brakes started heating up again at the Delaware Water Gap Bridge. He went to a truckstop and called in. The UPS mechanic from the local center was dispatched to the truckstop to help assess the problem. Air lines froze up again. The truckstop shop said repairs couldn't be started for over 2 hours till other work in their shop was completed. The mechanic went back to the package center, got an empty trailer and some help. The trailer with the bad brakes was off loaded in 45 minutes in a parking lot. Why wasn't this done at either of the 2 Hubs were more resources were available? The driver lost over 3 hours, shop time was over 2 hours & the problem never was fixed. Like Pogo in the comic strip was fond of saying" We've met the enemy and it's us!" Almost every issue could be fixed with common sense. [/QUOTE]
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