Driver Coercion Final Rule Goes into Effect Jan. 29

For once I agree with you.

 

Hoffa? Why do we need another union bloodsucker?

 

Wouldn't this rule be a good thing for rule abiding drivers? Imagine that Bully Inc. (Shipper) calls Gotta Keep Em Happy (Carrier) and demands that his product has to make it 1,000 miles in under 14 hours (about 75mph and no team drivers available), and since it is Bully Inc., He threatens Gotta Keep Em Happy with account termination if our carrier wont comply. So the Keep Em Happy sales dept. leans on dispatch to accomplish the impossible (within the rules) requirements of Bully. Dispatch caves to Sales and contacts Hardest Running Rule Breaker (Trucker Extraordinaire) because dispatch knows this Rule Breaker always gets the job done by detouring around the rules. Meanwhile, Rule Abiding Trucker sits waiting patiently for an assignment wondering why everyone else seems to be getting 1000 more miles per week.
Wouldn't the new rule allow dispatch to say to sales, ask Bully Inc. if he is going to pay the $11,000 fine for pushing this, and when they do ask Bully he backs down and allows a delivery schedule according to the rules but resorts to beating sales down with a lower your price tirade, he is Bully after all. Then dispatch can choose equally from the pool of Rule Abiding Truckers who are profiting from a more level playing field since Hardest Running Rule Breaker is no longer the go to guy for dispatches dirty work.

 

Sure. But calling them rule abiding drivers seem silly. Nobody follow the rules, it's all about the money. It will always be about the money no matter who, the driver, the shipper, even the loader.

Do you follow the rules 100%?

 

I follow every rule I want to follow, 100% of the time...

 

I don't see it having much effect from where Im sitting.
Its pretty lame and disappointing

 

The rule seems straightfoward to me. And if your complaint is it doesn't have enough monetary protections for the whistleblower, something tells me there are going to be lots of lawyers advertising for driver business on late night TV, along with the medical malpractice guys. Its called the legal lottery.

 

I disagree with your view of a juror. Jurors are picked out of a pool citizens, working or not. They should be average, but after going thru the selection process of both the Prosecution and the Defendant, the pool is nothing like average. Certainly not a group of peers but not "people with nothing better to do".