How Do You Perform a Thorough Pre-Trip Inspection?

[Freight Relocators]

A proper pre-trip inspection is crucial for safety and compliance, but it can be easy to miss steps when rushing. What do you focus on during your inspections to ensure everything is in top shape? From checking tires and brakes to verifying lights and fluids, experienced drivers, share your tips for making sure your truck and trailer are road-ready every time. Let’s discuss the most critical steps in a thorough pre-trip inspection

How to Perform a Proper Pre-Trip Inspection on a Semi Truck and Trailer - Freight Relocators

Ensure safety on the road with a proper pre-trip inspection. Learn how to conduct a thorough inspection to prevent accidents and breakdowns.

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[Electric Chicken]

Slap it and roll.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Slap it and roll.

Then get halfway to Toronto or Hamilton realize you're low on fuel and mutter obscenities

 

[Rigjockey]

Then get halfway to Toronto or Hamilton realize you're low on fuel and mutter obscenities

Even if you were IN Toronto, you are still halfway to Toronto.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Even if you were IN Toronto, you are still halfway to Toronto.

Toronto runs from Ayr to Bowmanville as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Rigjockey]

Toronto runs from Ayr to Bowmanville as far as I'm concerned.

Pretty much.
I used to work in Scarlem in the 90s and it would take me two hours to get home on the 401.

 

[Hammer166]

In the days before drop N hook prevalence, a good driver did a serious Pre-Trip when they swapped trailers, and then problems were often obvious by feel during operation. But in today's environment where swapping trailers happens multiple tumes per week, vs the monthly we used to do? Few drivers do thorough pretrips, and even fewer have the mechanical aptitude to do so efficiently.

So how do you do a thorough pretrip? Personally I think that mechanical aptitude is important. Someone who understands how something works will see problems long before someone who has the inspection routine from the book memorized. I know my equipment intimately, I've pulled the same trailer since it was new 3 years ago. Since I'm constantly walking around my equipment, changes jump out. My pretrip is an all day long, every day affair. And I promise, I'll notice something wrong long before some guy who's on his 5th trailer this week, no matter how careful his inspections might be.

 

[Electric Chicken]

In the days before drop N hook prevalence, a good driver did a serious Pre-Trip when they swapped trailers, and then problems were often obvious by feel during operation. But in today's environment where swapping trailers happens multiple tumes per week, vs the monthly we used to do? Few drivers do thorough pretrips, and even fewer have the mechanical aptitude to do so efficiently.

So how do you do a thorough pretrip? Personally I think that mechanical aptitude is important. Someone who understands how something works will see problems long before someone who has the inspection routine from the book memorized. I know my equipment intimately, I've pulled the same trailer since it was new 3 years ago. Since I'm constantly walking around my equipment, changes jump out. My pretrip is an all day long, every day affair. And I promise, I'll notice something wrong long before some guy who's on his 5th trailer this week, no matter how careful his inspections might be.

I can turn up to 10 trailers a day. I obsess over my truck. Trailers (chassis) are simple.

Is it legal? Yes. Is it safe? Yes.

Let's roll.

If no to either, bad order it and leave it. Move on to the next or go home.

 

[Mike]

In the days before drop N hook prevalence, a good driver did a serious Pre-Trip when they swapped trailers, and then problems were often obvious by feel during operation. But in today's environment where swapping trailers happens multiple tumes per week, vs the monthly we used to do? Few drivers do thorough pretrips, and even fewer have the mechanical aptitude to do so efficiently.

So how do you do a thorough pretrip? Personally I think that mechanical aptitude is important. Someone who understands how something works will see problems long before someone who has the inspection routine from the book memorized. I know my equipment intimately, I've pulled the same trailer since it was new 3 years ago. Since I'm constantly walking around my equipment, changes jump out. My pretrip is an all day long, every day affair. And I promise, I'll notice something wrong long before some guy who's on his 5th trailer this week, no matter how careful his inspections might be.

Very well said, and it's one of the things I love about pulling the same trailer all the time. Same truck, same trailer, I can typically feel something beginning to go bad before I would physically notice it. Small air leaks being a prime example.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

A proper pre-trip inspection is crucial for safety and compliance, but it can be easy to miss steps when rushing. What do you focus on during your inspections to ensure everything is in top shape? From checking tires and brakes to verifying lights and fluids, experienced drivers, share your tips for making sure your truck and trailer are road-ready every time. Let’s discuss the most critical steps in a thorough pre-trip inspection

How to Perform a Proper Pre-Trip Inspection on a Semi Truck and Trailer - Freight Relocators

Ensure safety on the road with a proper pre-trip inspection. Learn how to conduct a thorough inspection to prevent accidents and breakdowns.

www.freightrelocators.com

I think in real life ya just check the oil and kick the tires..

On your CDL test that would take like almost an hour..

Afew years ago I made the Fuel Stop pre-trip

Not exactly regulation by the the book yet I bet ya dimes 2 doughnuts this is more than half all pretrip inspections on any given day.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Then get halfway to Toronto or Hamilton realize you're low on fuel and mutter obscenities

once somebody told ya pee in the tanks thats heavier so the diesel comes up over it.

That was the day I also disconected my cb radio forever too

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

once somebody told ya pee in the tanks thats heavier so the diesel comes up over it.

That was the day I also disconected my cb radio forever too

We have them. I haven't kept one on in years. It's trash like that in the states and mostly silence here.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

We have them. I haven't kept one on in years. It's trash like that in the states and mostly silence here.

Back at the Grain Elevators a Cb Radio was a "Neccesity" thats how ya checked in & out.

Ill never forget Talking Crap on The Cb Radio

I pulled off Effingham Petro said come out here.

He said Im at the Chrome Shop across the Street

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Another Time going up I-57 Mt Vernon in a 65mph rig.

He said why dont ya move over.

I said why ya riding my side and coutesy flash.

He was gonna kick my @$$ even knew the Sheriff in Mount Vernon.

57 north he cut-off at the 64

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Ya know what either one of em Id put out a "Hand-Shake" Buy ya afew rounds & supper lets party.

I scared of him & he was scared of me.

End of the day couldve hadda few beers laughed all about it too

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Tell ya the Best Cb radio.

I was a young kid at the Virgina line the tunnel then a Weigh Station.

A guy said my company name pull back over.

I updated my logbooks and got all my registration & paperwork together.

Them troopers in the weigh station looked at me like "Wtf" doing.

Didnt ya call me on the Radio tell mr pull in.

He said theres the Door get your dumbass out before I find a "Reason"