When you go into the 'open door' meeting, ask the exec that you talk to if Sam would have done the same...
Wal Mart cell phone policy
Discussion in 'Wal-Mart' started by braceface, Apr 2, 2012.
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I, too, am 'free' as you are, with no company policy to heed - yet my personal policy on phone use while driving is almost exactly the same as what is listed above. And yes, I live by it. When I'm driving, I don't need to be doing anything but driving.
I see so many CDL drivers on a daily basis aimlessly driving along with a phone plastered to their ear. I think that FMCSA should hold carriers accountable if they allow drivers to even possess a phone in the truck if they don't own a hands-free headset.grabberblue12 Thanks this. -
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Yeah what next no showering without permission?
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I agree with you, but with the companies not stepping up on their own, what would you suggest? -
I should have let Wal Mart do the records search for the accident. I voluntarily did it myself. They would have looked at the day of my accident only. When I pulled down the screen on Verizon it had the entire text record going back to the start if the month. It never occurred to me to look at it before I gave it to them. I did not remember being in violation. The policy went into effect on the first. My accident was on the fourth. The text I returned to my daughter was the only text I had sent while at work. I sent it on the morning of the first. All the other texts on the report, from the first to the date of the accident, were sent before or after work. It was my error for giving them the records back to the first. Once they saw that I had made a text while on driving status it was over.
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They ARE doing random phone records searches! Its like a random drug screen. If you refuse you are assumed to be guilty. The same policy that allows them to do random drug screens, they are using to do random phone records searches. I got this straight from my District Mgrs. mouth. Several drivers have been terminated as a result of this since the policy went into effect. Talk to other Wal Mart drivers for clarification. They will confirm that Wal Mart has the toughest "Distracted Driver Policy" in the industry. If they would let me, a driver with 23 years service to them, go they will let anyone go. I did the text. It was a mindless reaction to my daughters text of "I love you daddy". I sent her back a . Now I'm on the outside trying figure out what's next. Put down the phones drivers!
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