You actually pay me to do pretrips. We used to joke that half our salary was for checking the truck.
My fellow drivers are fine but the office staff needs to start doing full turn ride alongs and understand the drivers know more then they do, particularly when they have only been their a couple years. Getting told what is safe by someone who has never driven a truck is a "no".
Ride alongs need to be done. Drivers need to be listened too. Preplans need to be sent to the truck promptly not 6 hours after my loaded call. Performance standards need to be written down and signed by each driver, as well as posted visibly. And you need better metrics.
Sanity? Comprehencion of their job? Ride alongs where never done so the team had no clue what the drivers where dealing with and made ot very clear they had no interest in learning. The demanded ready times be set with no regard for traffic, gaslight/lied to drivers, and set calvinball standards