Comments By Cantankerous Amicus

Why is it taking so long for them to respond?

If you're a trainer, have the trainee "pump up the airbags" on the trailer. This is accomplished by repeatedly pulling the pin release lever out. 50 to 75 times is usually enough.

Another one is to check out the serial numbers on the individual fuses each morning on the pre trip.

Now we know why there is a driver shortage!

Must check the permit book for FL sailboat fuel transportation permit.

You might appreciate this video:

Naive Trooper Sailboat Fuel

Pop-quizzed the peanut gallery. Got this response:

Sailboat fuel is pressurized air, isn't it? You have to have placards for that?!

She is already registered on this forum but hasn't posted anything yet. I suspect a day of reckoning is headed my way.

I’ve been wanting to ask the community here about parts of the truck that could get a person a bonus score on the pre-trip inspection exam. These would be parts that don’t normally get mentioned during an average exam but might be worth sharing here. As someone considering running in a married team, and out of respect for all parties involved in the aforementioned married team, I won’t say who identified these parts of the truck while studying and practicing for the PTI, but I will share them all the same – for posterity, of course.

- wheel hub fuel plate

- air brake fluid

- trailer drives

Blinker fluid goes without saying and results in no bonus, but something like the lug nut fuse definitely would result in a bonus. What are some unusual parts of the truck that you have seen pointed out?

Page twelve was a while ago but I still can't believe I didn't notice that back then.

If you keep ghosting these companies then I wouldn't be surprised if the trucking industry decides you aren't for them. Ghosting is really unprofessional behavior. In fact if you try going back to working in an office, you might have troubles landing a job there too, should they decide to check your employment history.

I've been diligently working through the HRTP in order, page by page. What did I miss here? What's going on?

You will endure and hopefully come out the other end with entertaining lessons to share with us all. Are you really sure you want prayers?

Looks like it has a lot of potential. Hopefully it takes off.

He has been stopped for going past a weigh station which he did not see due to it being on the opposite side of highway and “obscured from vision” and his Qualcomm did not alert him to it coming up.

First question is, is he responsible for stopping at a station that is set for a particular direction of traveling? And if so, if he didn’t see it due to it being obscured nor was alerted about it, what can he do?

(For anyone who is familiar, this is at the Goldendale weigh station in Washington state.)

He must have been going southbound on US 97. Here is the sign. It doesn't look obscured and you can see the left turn lane not too much further on. From what I understand from a recent thread, if there is a weigh station then you pull your commercial vehicle in unless you are instructed not to, i.e. the station is closed or PrePass waves you through.

There was one sign he saw when he first got back on the highway and it didn’t say “where” or how far ahead the stop was. He kept looking and did not see the entrance for it.

He saw the sign, but didn't see the weigh station and so kept on driving? Or was this after he was pulled into the station? If that is the case, then how could he not know where the entrance was?