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Posted By: Bill Cornelius In Response To: Re: This is not a scam, but ... (Gary)
Sunday, 29 January 2006, at 9:21 a.m.
CAll the DOT right away. They will shut the operation down until they complete inspections of all the equipment.
Lots of operations that operate locally think they can get around the regs just because they don't cross state lines and don't have to pass state run weigh stations. It is true that the DOT doesn't audit them as often, perhaps your terminal has never been audited at all. If so they should be audited just to show management what can happen.
> Yes, we complete the reports but the company hardly takes them seriously.
> The same defects get written up time and time again. Also, we were running
> out of books at one time and were told to simply take a book from another
> bus that wasn't on the road and use that. Many, or perhaps most, books
> have reports made on several buses. It's very difficult to find a
> "track record" for a particular bus, since they are scattered
> around. Also, when a book gets filled up it generally gets trashed.
> We used to have a dry erase board on the wall of what is considered the
> drivers' room. That board listed the status of the buses. It was helpful
> to the drivers but it could make the guy who manages the buses look real
> bad. On the morning of a Corporate inspection that guy simply erased the
> problems away and wrote that all the buses were "available." A
> bit later he simply removed the board and placed it in a dark spot near
> his office, which is in another building. Drivers had pretty much stopped
> relying upon it anyway, since the problems kept getting routinely erased
> on the board, but not fixed in reality.
> The same day the GM told me the defective bus had been repaired, but
> really hadn't been, he told me our location was going to get a person who
> actually knew something about buses, and who would see they were in good
> working order. I think the GM was just lying through his teeth again, but
> I may not be around to see if it turns out to be true.
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