Trucking Regulations: No defect DVIR rule that was enacted 3 years ago

[corneileous]

So uh, when did the FMCSA take this away? I was just informed by our office that we all the sudden have to go back to filling out a pre-trip form every day even if there’s no defects on our trucks. Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the whole purpose of that was to minimize the amount of unnecessary paperwork and that generally because it’s stupid to fill out a form of when nothings’s wrong with your equipment.

 

[Injun]

It must be a company policy. FMCSA does not require DVIRs.

 

[corneileous]

Hmm. But still do if something’s wrong, right?

 

[Tazz]

Hmm. But still do if something’s wrong, right?

Correct.

 

[corneileous]

So uh, where would someone find a direct link that shows this is a non-requirement on a federal level?

 

[Tazz]

Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance; Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR)

 

[Tazz]

To be clear the company can still require it (We do for some reason) even if Fed reg does not require it.

 

[Injun]

Swift also required it. Company I'm with now, they tried to require it. They get one at the end of a trip. If the trip goes one day, they get one. If the trip goes four days, they get one. So far, they haven't complained.

 

[Electric Chicken]

We do a DVIR on the Qualcomm at the end of our shift. It'd probably be end of a trip like Injun if we weren't slip seating, but I dunno.

We don't do any pretrip forms. Just get a message with the previous driver's DVIR to delete. I mean review.

 

[RamblingPete]

A lot of companies still require it for legal purposes. Mainly in the case of a lawsuit . If a driver is regularly putting in a clean bill of health on truck then has an accident due to an unreported defect , they can try to shift blame on the driver .
Fact is company equipment in the end is the companies responsibility,in the end ( just like a good or bad economy is always belongs to a president essentially,despite the actions of others ) . But I imagine that in the end the driver winds up on some form of a blacklist .

 

[Sinister]

To be clear the company can still require it (We do for some reason) even if Fed reg does not require it.

Every. Friggin. Day.

It’s a good thing they’re not heavy or cost me money.

 

[Mike]

Every. Friggin. Day.

It’s a good thing they’re not heavy or cost me money.

I did them everyday when I first started working under my own authority, up until the new entrant audit was complete. I wanted to look super safe

 

[Tazz]

I did them everyday when I first started working under my own authority, up until the new entrant audit was complete. I wanted to look super safe

You just look like an anti-green company wasting paper like that.......

 

[Mike]

You just look like an anti-green company wasting paper like that.......

It was all on an app, not paper

 

[Electric Chicken]

Apps deplete the ozone. It's all that radiation from the phone.

Global warming is Steve Jobs' fault, rest his soul.

 

[Injun]

Apps deplete the ozone. It's all that radiation from the phone.

Global warming is Steve Jobs' fault, rest his soul.

God Bless Steve Jobs, if that's the case. I want a longer tomato season.

 

[corneileous]

To be clear the company can still require it (We do for some reason) even if Fed reg does not require it.

Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance; Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR)

Yeah, that’s kind of a what I’m wondering because I can’t find anything anywhere on line where the FMCSA took away that new rule putting us back to wasting a bunch of paper and time but the funny thing is, I’m not sure if my boss actually went down there but he sent the new office people down to Dallas for some seminar thing about all that crap and they said the instructor guy said that the rule was changed. I mean, if this is just somethin’ the boss is wanting us to do from now on for his own reasons, I think he would just say so but he really is under the assumption that this rule had been changed back. I guess whatever, if they want extra paperwork to do, that’s fine by me. Lol.

 

[Electric Chicken]

God Bless Steve Jobs, if that's the case. I want a longer tomato season.

I bet there's a Longer Tomato Season app.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Only available for Apple.

 

[Injun]

Only available for Apple.

figures.