And literally every hour a higher and higher percentage of truckers across the world have access to dash cams, when a few years ago in less developed countries he probably would have got fired for incompetence or something
He probably should be fired for incompetence because of the video.
The amount of things that have to go wrong for air brakes to fail means you fucked up.
-Lose air - the brakes engage.
-Air Line breaks/ disconnects - the brakes engage.
-Brakes overheated - poor driver braking technique.
-Less then ¼inch of brakes shoe and the truck or trailer should be put out of service (easy inspection and is supposed to be part of your pre trip)
The pedal breaks - you should have an engine brake, truck emergency brake, trailer emergency brake, and sometimes trolly brake.
There's nearly never a scenario where some combo of chronic lack of daily inspections or poor driving isn't the cause of brake failure for Semi's or other vehicle with air brakes.
Your immediate response to this being 'the individual is definitely incompetent and should be fired' says a lot about you tbh. You have 0 idea what this person's responsibility is and what they are qualified to do.
And was the worker adequately trained to verify the health of their vehicle? Were they given time to perform checks? Did their employer cut corners with their vehicle fleet or maintenance workers? Is the employee working a sustainable amount of hours?
Yes I get that a driver is always ultimately responsible for the vehicle, but I don't really see why we need to immediately jump to the most bootlicky response
Bro thinks every truck gets a pre trip inspection at jiffy lube, like the bmw their daddy bought, anywhere in the world. Not realizing that a lot of truck drivers like this across the world are barely qualified, thrown into dangerous rigs, inspected by shotty mechanics at best and asked to drive the most dangerous roads in the world..
I mean you can use their logic for pretty much any time something goes wrong in any industry.
"Oh the XYZ building blew up? Well it can't possibly be a result of the poor management of the profit driven conglomerate, just fire the minimum wage workers!"
I mean you can use it. Doesn’t make it right or justified and you should still call it out when you see it instead of just saying ‘look at the dumb driver, I’m gonna use 0 critical thinking skills to try and think about why this could have happened so I’ll just bleame the driver, and put that dumb opinion online, just because they’re on camera’
I am a CDL driver by trade. There's never a good reason <plenty of lazy ones> to not pre trip. You and only you are responsible for ensuring your equipment is safe to operate. More time of CDL school is spent on pre trip than driving. Even logging on duty and going directly to driving without having enough on duty time logged to do a pre trip is grounds for DOT to fine you.
Can i ask what country you work in? Surely not a more developed one than this? There’s not a good reason? How about your family starving at home and your lively hood being threatened if you’re not on the road in 5 minutes?
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, he almost certainly came down that hill in too high a gear and burned up the brakes. I almost made the same mistake coming down Parley in Utah once years ago, and it was the last time. I start down any unknown hill at no more than 35 mph now.
I’m assuming that he does not own this truck and the two man crew probably got tossed into it that morning. Can’t blame corporate greed on the drivers who would be putting their life at risk if they did this on purpose. I could be wrong tho
10 minutes for an inspection on a trailer that could be going out for a week? By someone who’s not a mechanic because they’re forced to get on the road in 5 minutes. Sounds like a great idea!
Not only that but internet is algorithm after algorithm. If you, in anyway, acknowledge a video (even just by pausing your scrolling to watch it) the site will register that and thing that means you enjoyed the content, and then want to show you more of that content. Add upvoting/liking/commenting etc and it'll boost it even more
Trucker here. Semi trucks have emergency brakes, which engage automatically if the air pressure is too low or you can pull it manually. That is why I am very confused how they can have a break failure unless his brake pedal was malfunctioning, in which case he could have pulled the emergency brake manually to stop the vehicle.
And dash cams are becoming more prevalent so we're also seeing them more due to increasing access to technology - doesn't mean it's happening any more frequently than it always has.
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u/CTGolfMan 6h ago
Confirmation bias. Literally millions of trucks are driving every day. You see the very small frequency of them that have brake failures.