LLV issues

Lyra · Nov 4, 2019

It’s been a little over a month and I’ve written my truck out about six times asking for new brakes. Along with new brakes I’ve asked for new front tires and a few other things. We have a small office and so we don’t have any extra trucks. As I said it’s been a month and they keep saying you’re next. Today my truck squeaks like a pig. So if I don’t have a truck and I’m not driving my own car do I just write down the wait time until someone comes back.

gerl2 · Nov 4, 2019

Jess said:
It’s been a little over a month and I’ve written my truck out about six times asking for new brakes. Along with new brakes I’ve asked for new front tires and a few other things. We have a small office and so we don’t have any extra trucks. As I said it’s been a month and they keep saying you’re next. Today my truck squeaks like a pig. So if I don’t have a truck and I’m not driving my own car do I just write down the wait time until someone comes back.

When I had my LLV I was told the same thing, I just claimed it a safety issue then they get right to you.

formerlyknownas · Nov 4, 2019

Yes, it would be wait time. I would use the safety card and if that doesn't work just count the hours till another carrier gets back and you have a truck.

jtcrapper · Nov 4, 2019

o time and on the scanner loading time I push everything on the dock get it ready and sit with it until a truck shows up district had a issue with my reasoning but a truck could show anytime

Lyra · Nov 4, 2019

Along with the list of bad brakes and tires my emergency brake doesn’t even work and they’ve been letting me drive like this for a month... and to use my truck on Sunday...

Deer Smearer · Nov 4, 2019

1767. And done.

Postal-xam@58 · Nov 4, 2019

It’s a safety issue, keep writing it up. A carrier had a little lady pull out in front of her, couldn’t stop and hit in the rear. Carrier didn’t get in trouble because she had wrote it up multiple times for brakes and kept copies of write up.

Deer Smearer · Nov 5, 2019

1767!!! No E brake - refuse to drive it.

If they even suggest driving it any and every discipline issued for rollaway or failure to set an e brake nationwide should be purged and expunged.

Same BS when they say don't turn them off when they have issues starting.

Lyra · Nov 5, 2019

Do I keep the O time on my time sheet and when I get 8 hours turn it into a x day?

Postal-xam@58 · Nov 5, 2019

I write on time sheet and make copies, you might have to prove it when you get 8 hrs. And then you get an O day, which is like an X. The first one I had, took most of a year to get. So the boss had to pull all my time sheets, she would not take my word for it. Better to have proof ????

Lyra · Nov 5, 2019

I don’t mark my packages. Should I while I wait? If they send help?

Lyra · Nov 5, 2019

I asked if I should go home and come back at 2. I was told I have to drive it. Can you believe this place?

Shafted · Nov 5, 2019

Ask for a blank copy of the “0 time tracking sheet”. You still write your o time on the time sheet, but you also record the date minutes and reason on the tracking sheet for reference. When it adds up to 8 hours, you ask for the x day for it. PM’s hate it when you ask for one because now they know you are keeping track of those 8 hours haha. My fav was when I finally earned a day off the sheet MAGICALLY disappeared from the drawer in my case. The look on my PM’s face was PRICELESS when I said oh, no worries, I have a photo copy of it, and walked away smiling. Play dirty with me jackass, and you can expect to lose every time. To keep grimy mgt in check you basically have to think in your mind, what dirty thing would they do, and then prepare for it before it happens. There is no bottom to the snake pit that they live in.

FrozenToes · Nov 5, 2019

As everyone has said, use the "O" time tracking sheet. I have the PM initial after every entry. I also take a pic. It is kept on my clipboard with the timesheet.

RDruckus · Nov 5, 2019

Jess said:
I asked if I should go home and come back at 2. I was told I have to drive it. Can you believe this place?

You do NOT have to drive it.
THESE USLESS MANURE BAGS ARE PUTTING YOU IN DANGER.
Get the district safety rep involved, get their #, email or fax from the union. Contact them while you're waiting.

I twice refused to leave for my route until my lazy manager had put my creepy stalker's delayed mail (undelivered by management for days) into creep's box. The second time (in the same week) when they hadn't told me they took it out, I called EAP while I waited.
(EAP said management was traumatizing me. NO KIDDING.)

They care nothing for your safety, they are setting you up for injury or death..
Kick them in the @$$. They deserve it.

You deserve better.

Windindaface · Nov 5, 2019

Jess said:
I asked if I should go home and come back at 2. I was told I have to drive it. Can you believe this place?

Since you have written your issues up regarding your LLV and have a signed copy of repair tag(s). Did you ask your PM for a written documentation requiring you to drive this noted LLV with issues?

jtcrapper · Nov 5, 2019

document everything keep your copy of repair tags red tag it for the parking break you have a roll away nobody will get your job back they can drive you in a van or they can rent a car and drive you. You need a paper trail and if they tell you to drive it red tag it .

Lyra · Nov 5, 2019

jtcrapper said:
document everything keep your copy of repair tags red tag it for the parking break you have a roll away nobody will get your job back they can drive you in a van or they can rent a car and drive you. You need a paper trail and if they tell you to drive it red tag it .

I don't even know what a red tag is.. Also My union isnt any help at all. I hate putting my name into the ohh look.. Im starting crap again pile. How do I get the district safety rep info?

RDruckus · Nov 5, 2019

I got it from a sympathetic in office worker.

I would think a phone call to your DR would get it for you.

(You're not starting cr@p, your reacting to it and saying, "Oh, H€¡¡ NO!")

Itstillfun · Nov 6, 2019

Jess said:
I don't even know what a red tag is.. Also My union isnt any help at all. I hate putting my name into the ohh look.. Im starting crap again pile. How do I get the district safety rep info?

Refuse to drive the unsafe vehicle. Ask your local DMV about safety yours and the public. If you can't be cohersed into driving it they cannot blame you. Refuse. Being rural you're already on the list.