Interesting how the CHP Commercial Division truck inspectors use creepers to go under the trailers\/chassis when doing their roadability safety inspections, but according to the Letter of Understanding ILWU & PMA mechanics are forbidden from going under the chassis they inspect during the on-the-dock readability safety checks required by the PCL&CA.<\/p>\n
Read the ILWU\/PMA letter for yourself.\u00a0Letter of Understanding Chassis<\/a><\/p>\n I’ll bet the trucks being inspected by CHP Inspectors are required to have the engines turned off before the CHP Inspector\u00a0goes under the chassis on a creeper. The ILWU\/PMA letter says the driver cannot get out of the cab, and says nothing about turning off the engine.<\/p>\n Does anyone else have a problem driving next to a 40 ton container sitting on a chassis that was not properly inspected for roadability safety?<\/p>\n Who did Big Bob have to threaten to get this letter signed?<\/p>\n I \u00a0don’t think David Miller would have allowed the PMA to forbid Union mechanics from doing their jobs, but Big Bob “fixed” that.<\/p>\n Do you think someone will have to be killed before PMA decides to do proper safety inspections?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interesting how the CHP Commercial Division truck inspectors use creepers to go under the trailers\/chassis when doing their roadability safety inspections, but according to the Letter of Understanding ILWU & PMA mechanics are forbidden from going under the chassis they inspect during the on-the-dock readability safety checks required by the PCL&CA. Read the ILWU\/PMA letter … Continue reading “What will the California Highway Patrol think of the ILWU Chassis Roadability Inspections? CHP Inspectors use creepers and go under the chassis!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}