Fired for driving accident in recent snow

If a driver calls a customer or not depends on many things. As with most trucking, there is no one size fits all solutions. I made many deliveries and pickups to places where the actual customer was not on the premises and I had no way to contact them. In fact, most times if I did not have experience with that place I was using my carrier's directions. I would be willing to bet at least half the time my company was contracted by a logistics company to make those runs. When possible I would attempt contact, but most of the time my carrier had to make that contact via email or a phone call. As I said, when possible contact, but for dang sure make sure your carrier is also in the loop.

 

Never drive in conditions you feel unsafe in. Tell your company to pound sand. A clean record means you can have a job to replace any ####ty company trying to lean on you.

 

forbidden to call customer?

what did we do before GPS?

I always made sure I had a WORKING phone # just in case.

most times I would call for those last few mile directions that GPS screws up.

I've never worked for a mega, so maybe that's why I could run like this.

 

the ONLY thing the companies allowed us to do, was call the customer for directions, pre-cell phone/GPS days.

other that that, we were to NEVER discuss anything else, regarding the delivery date or any rescheduling of the delivery or pick up.

that's the way it was.

too bad, some here don't believe that.

 

Hell that's still the case to this day in some cases. Even if you call certain customers, good luck getting an answer.

 

A working phone number is not necessarily a number to the actual customer. I was trucking before GPS came in vogue. I really never had that much trouble! When I did I got help. That help depended on the situation. If you see you can't make a delivery made dang sure you start to notify EVERYBODY! I just think in case of a company driver that should start with the carrier.

 

You’ll be fine. You just need to bite the bullet and do a year in a second chance company go without any problems and you’ll be hireable to most companies again.

 

To the OP!!!

You get fired for parking in case of bad weather! Tell that carrier to kiss your backside and go find a job with a carrier that respects you better than that (redacted). Honestly, everything else is simple commentary!

 

one customer we had, was CVS. if you needed directions, you called the 800 number, and then press a number for directions. then it asked you to press in the store number, and bingo, you got a recorded message with directions.

 

Oh yeah, I did that with a delivery to McLane not too long ago. Most of those big time spots went to automated directions. Just imagine drivers calling constantly wanting to empty out early. Probably forced automated communication