What would make you stay with a company?

For most companies it's far more important to snag more cheap freight from terrible shipper/receivers than it is to keep a driver. Even if the trucking company is chronically short of drivers they keep bidding on cheap freight and ask drivers to work faster, or do more free work like dention/sweeping trailers/shuttling trailers, or driving unpaid miles.

 

How do you become a company if you don't do that in todays world.
And the work still gets done.

 

My company did another driver very survey and last they said only 30% of drivers responded so far and they even kinda pay drivers to take the survey. They give drivers points that we can use to get stuff the points have value of about $14.

Some of the stuff they have fixed is the crazy dispatches. Because they book the loads to tight and driver could not stop to use bathroom or shower in afternoon. They pay detention after 1 hour now. Plus they pay for each drop and hook and even live loads or unload.

The companies should just ask the drivers why they think about quitting and you will find the problems. Seems like nobody wants to hear the truth most times. When I said something about not getting home because I was running out of HOS. The log Dept said maybe I should not log all the work I'm doing. That's was kinda crazy to hear from the log Dept. and they wonder why driver quite. They don't say that anymore.

 

If you dont meet the requirements to certify a dot inspection, fair enough. I do, not via mechanic certification, or any of that.

i certainly meet "qualified by means of experience" though, what tells me this is the number of "dot inspections" a shop certified everything to be fine when i poinyed out 5 things they missed.

Not trying to slight your experience, but many of us are mechanically inclined without certification and know our equipment a lot better than many certified mechanics

 

§396.19 Inspector qualifications.
(a) Motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers must ensure that individuals performing annual inspections under §396.17(d) or (e) are qualified as follows:

(1) Understand the inspection criteria set forth in part 393 and appendix G of this subchapter and can identify defective components;

(2) Are knowledgeable of and have mastered the methods, procedures, tools and equipment used when performing an inspection; and

(3) Are capable of performing an inspection by reason of experience, training, or both as follows:

(i) Successfully completed a Federal-or State-sponsored training program or have a certificate from a State or Canadian Province that qualifies the individuals to perform commercial motor vehicle safety inspections, or

(ii) Have a combination of training or experience totaling at least 1 year. Such training or experience may consist of:

(A) Participation in a commercial motor vehicle manufacturer-sponsored training program or similar commercial training program designed to train students in commercial motor vehicle operation and maintenance;

(B) Experience as a mechanic or inspector in a motor carrier or intermodal equipment maintenance program;

(C) Experience as a mechanic or inspector in commercial motor vehicle maintenance at a commercial garage, fleet leasing company, or similar facility; or

(D) Experience as a commercial motor vehicle inspector for a State, Provincial or Federal government.

(b) Motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers must retain evidence of that individual's qualifications under this section. They must retain this evidence for the period during which that individual is performing annual motor vehicle inspections for the motor carrier or intermodal equipment provider, and for one year thereafter. However, motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers do not have to maintain documentation of inspector qualifications for those inspections performed as part of a State periodic inspection program.

[73 FR 76825, Dec. 17, 2008, as amended at 81 FR 47732, July 22, 2016]

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§396.21 Periodic inspection recordkeeping requirements.
(a) The qualified inspector performing the inspection shall prepare a report that:

(1) Identifies the individual performing the inspection;

(2) Identifies the motor carrier operating the vehicle or intermodal equipment provider intending to interchange the vehicle to a motor carrier;

(3) Identifies the date of the inspection;

(4) Identifies the vehicle inspected;

(5) Identifies the vehicle components inspected and describes the results of the inspection, including the identification of those components not meeting the minimum standards set forth in appendix G to this subchapter; and

(6) Certifies the accuracy and completeness of the inspection as complying with all the requirements of this section.

(b)(1) The original or a copy of the inspection report shall be retained by the motor carrier, intermodal equipment provider, or other entity that is responsible for the inspection for a period of fourteen months from the date of the inspection report. The original or a copy of the inspection report must be retained where the vehicle is either housed or maintained.

(2) The original or a copy of the inspection report must be available for inspection upon demand of an authorized Federal, State or local official.

(3) Exception. If the motor carrier operating the commercial motor vehicles did not perform the commercial motor vehicle's last annual inspection, or if an intermodal equipment provider did not itself perform the annual inspection on equipment intended for interchange to a motor carrier, the motor carrier or intermodal equipment provider is responsible for obtaining the original or a copy of the last annual inspection report upon demand of an authorized Federal, State, or local official.

 

What have drivers been saying are their reasons for leaving in your exit interviews?

What are the most common complaints that drivers file with HR?

And I promise I'm not trying to sound snarky, but why did your employer assign this task to a marketing manager instead of an HR rep?

 

Threads like these crack me up. An account is made out of nowhere and a thread is made that gets our attention and produces some conversation amongst us. Then as quickly as the OP showed up, they're gone again, leaving us to go back and forth.

What Im finally realizing is that we the users are the product being used to generate ad revenue. I have a feeling that users who pop up like this are nothing more than a site owners employee who drops a post to generate more posts/conversation which in turn means more ad revenue for the site.

 

This site gets plenty of traffic, I seriously doubt that anyone is trying to pump it up.

 

Upper management holding dispatch/planners more accountable. The bad apples stick around way too long in the trucking industry.

 

I haven't noticed a dire need for one more cheap freight hauling trucking company?

And what kind of company are you creating by trying to haul the cheap freight cheaper than the Chicago companies or the companies in CA with trucks made of duct tape and human waste?