Western Express On Fire!

do a proper pre-trip or this will happen

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• truck fire
• fire
• vehicle fire
• western express
• trucks
• trucking
• semi-truck
• truck wrecks

[Buckshot3715]

Damn what a bad day for that guy

[keystrucker]

yep..his house burnt down.. :(

[Newfieguy89]

Yes I am guilty of the turn the key and truck starts...must be all good!! Not everyday but it does happen once and a while.

[keystrucker]

lol..that's right..

[OneSillyTrucker]

Makes you want to do the entire 110 point pretrip huh? We all get into the bad "walk around" habit, me included

[keystrucker]

yep..you never know huh?

[bentstrider]

I emulate the CHP/CVET personnel whenever I pull my daily/nightly pre-trip.

The one thing that irks me are all of the piss-poor trailers I've had the bad luck of getting repaired when picking up.

The steering wheel holders are a-plenty!!!

[enjoi543]

@keystrucker how did his house burn?Damn this guy has no luck

[truckinjeff]

@wi11y1960 Something tells me that you haven't worked for 75% of the trucking companies out there. I am a former mechanic of Western Express. The equipment they have there is in much, much better shape than most of the equipment that shows up in the shop that I now work in.

[truckinjeff]

@LEATHERNECK3092 I used to work for the shop in 2007. I remember drivers were always trying to wire inverters directly to the batteries. I found that some drivers didn't care about the condition of their trucks or the job. I always made sure that the trucks were mechanically sound and that nothing was modified from factory. It wasn't uncommon for some of the veteran drivers to request me to work on their trucks because I checked everything from the wheels up.

[bikerty67]

i used to work for western express , most of the truckers are crybabys , george l. is a nosey bastard so is lori

[rev7fold]

Just get it there!!!

You get paid to drive,

Not to think. CSA 2010 will

Will change managements

Attidudes

[steelcityfan51]

Just like a mechanic always blame the driver, don't mention the fact you morons can't and won't do the maintenance needed let alone anything else. You probably the last idiot who worked on it putting batteries in it.

[LEATHERNECK3092]

i work for western in their nashville shop.driver are always hooking up a bunch of electronic devices that blow fuses & then they put in a bigger fuse.then next thing you know their truck is burning to the ground.the way the truck looks in the video it was a wiring issue.

[wi11y1960]

After having driven their equipment this does not surprise me. Their differred maintenance and the shops that will not replace faulty equipment makes me wonder how long till we see more of this.