What did you do at work today?

This was yesterday, but I figure someone will enjoy it. I sure didn't.

Decided that I had had enough of the lax safety program at my current/former employer so I gave notice. On my last day, after a 250 mile drive home from a job up north I stopped to fuel up the picker....

The rear axle on the trailer peeled off pulling away from the pumps....
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What a day... Adios putas.
#heresyoursign
 
Woke up to a Colonel telling me to get a copy of the report and start reading. Found it through unofficial channels. Hundreds of pages.




Bonus:


Seems like every 6 months I am reconsidering service. It's going to be a long evening.

...I wish I just had to deal with safety infractions and broken axles. 😉
 
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Congrats, now ever two years someone has to say you're heathy enought to drive
Ain't that some sh*t though? And every time you switch employers. But I'm told City of Pittsburgh drivers don't need a medical card to work for the city.

I want to get some OTR experience first. Do yo ever operate class A trucks with the state or just dumps?
 
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Ain't that some sh*t though? And every time you switch employers. But I'm told City of Pittsburgh drivers don't need a medical card to work for the city.

I want to get some OTR experience first. Do yo ever operate class A trucks with the state or just dumps?
Only class A driving I do for the state is pulling trailers that push to the class A weight, like pulling the 7 ton roller I'm certified to use. Other than that I'm doing class B driving. Funning thing with the state is you have to be certified to pull air brake trailers behind the dumps which they refere to as "Tag Trailer". Now each county maintenance has a lowboy to haul equiptment & dead trucks & certifies the operator to be a tag trailer operator. BTW, I suck backing trailers.
 
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Only class A driving I do for the state is pulling trailers that push to the class A weight, like pulling the 7 ton roller I'm certified to use. Other than that I'm doing class B driving. Funning thing with the state is you have to be certified to pull air brake trailers behind the dumps which they refere to as "Tag Trailer". Now each county maintenance has a lowboy to haul equiptment & dead trucks & certifies the operator to be a tag trailer operator. BTW, I suck backing trailers.

I'm good with regional work. Maybe I can be the dedicated statewide lowboy driver lol.

Yeah there were a handful of people in my class who really only needed a B license to drive tri-axle, but with the new February 7 ELDT law, you are basically forced to get your class A or find a school with a straight truck. So those guys will all have their class A even though they'll probably never need to drive a tractor trailer again.
 

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