Risk Analysis points after brake check

Swift is a seasonal company like most. They need to rack up bogus R/A points on drivers so they can fire them in January after the big Thanksgiving and Christmas rush is over and January is the big sinkhole for freight. So the easiest way is to set up drivers with high R/A throughout the year and it is an easy excuse to let them go when freight slows down so they will not have to pay $50 bucks a day for you to park at the truck stop with no load offers.

 

sound like you are into trucking politic, deeply

 

They fault you internally because it is what they are paid to do in that department.

You're in a rigged game / system.

Drivers need to understand that a lot of the people that work in these corporate mega's in operations are bought and paid for.

Many have WTF student debt, and, or the yuppie lifestyle, wifey, mortgage, cars, kids, on top of that are in debt up to their eyeballs.

Those people are robots. They do as they are programmed / told without question.

 

Micromanagement at its finest. Get your own dash cam and cover your ###. Man up and challenge them on it.

 

Playing devil's advocate- at what point did you get off the fuel? A what point did you start braking? My guess is Safety Guy matched up the video from the dash cam with the telemetry and saw a delayed reaction, in his opinion.

Last fall (I think, tried to find the post but couldn't) I had a trainee have a hard brake on 294 ssround Chicago . Traveling in the right lane approaching a toll plaza, just past an on ramp, merging traffic coming over . Guy makes an aggressive lane change from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3 and is about our drives. I tell my guy to watch traffic and slow down because I can see the guy making the dive right for the cash lanes and the gunner trying to race us to the merge point. My guy doesn't make any adjustments, then has a hard brake to avoid the kerkluffle of the 2 idiots in front of us. He thought it was unavoidable, I thought it was self evident .

If you can post the video.

 

Did you send them the video from your forward facing camera? You know, the one you bought to record just this sort of thing?

 

Put in a very good camera system that is stopped at crap

 

That is the point Safety Guy is trying to make. Idiot in the car has already shown he is a twat, if you had been on the brakes, Safety Guy wouldn't have anything to say.

A lot of my guys get real tired of hearing me say "how close are we getting", "you should be off the fuel already", "you need to create some distance", etc. An extra second of following distance can eliminate hard brakes.