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Lenexa Feeder Manager Has Rollaway?
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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 521267" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="color: blue">I know about 15 to 20 in my area of the world that are DTS certified. About a third are former drivers. The former drivers all had a harder time going through the DTS process because they had developed bad driving habits as former feeder drivers. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">You can learn things from the veteran and you can learn things from the DTS trained instructor. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I'll give you an example. Most drivers never check thier necessary documents and permits and could not tell you everything that goes into that packet. thats beneath them cause they have all this skill and thats just some ups mumbo jumbo.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">We had a guy that got stopped at a wiegh station and could not find the instructions for the dot inspector to access his hours and could not pull his hours information in Ivis. As a result he will be paying the state of maryland a 280 dollar fine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Now the question to ask is would that 31 year driver have stressed checking all the paperwork? Probably not. Thats one of about 350 items a DTS trainer is required to learn and demonstrate on his/her pretrip. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">As I said before I can do a pretrip audit on any 30 year safe driver and find he misses checking at least two items required by the DOT. The 30 year driver that checks them all is the exception not the rule.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">So if you're still paying attention at this point which most readers here do not my point again is that you can learn from both the 30 year guy and the DTS trained instructor.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">We have some feeder drivers here . would any of them like to take a stab at listing the dot required items on the tractor?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 521267, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]I know about 15 to 20 in my area of the world that are DTS certified. About a third are former drivers. The former drivers all had a harder time going through the DTS process because they had developed bad driving habits as former feeder drivers. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]You can learn things from the veteran and you can learn things from the DTS trained instructor. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]I'll give you an example. Most drivers never check thier necessary documents and permits and could not tell you everything that goes into that packet. thats beneath them cause they have all this skill and thats just some ups mumbo jumbo.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]We had a guy that got stopped at a wiegh station and could not find the instructions for the dot inspector to access his hours and could not pull his hours information in Ivis. As a result he will be paying the state of maryland a 280 dollar fine.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Now the question to ask is would that 31 year driver have stressed checking all the paperwork? Probably not. Thats one of about 350 items a DTS trainer is required to learn and demonstrate on his/her pretrip. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]As I said before I can do a pretrip audit on any 30 year safe driver and find he misses checking at least two items required by the DOT. The 30 year driver that checks them all is the exception not the rule.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]So if you're still paying attention at this point which most readers here do not my point again is that you can learn from both the 30 year guy and the DTS trained instructor.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]We have some feeder drivers here . would any of them like to take a stab at listing the dot required items on the tractor?[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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