Caught on cam using phone at zero tolerance company

i don't "see" any touche here...

owning up to my responsibility can be for arriving late, getting the paperwork wrong, leaving the docks when there was a load to be put on, and NO ONE told me, hooking up to the wrong trailer, whatever...

so "touche" that....

 

Latter '18 or sometime '19, at Harris Teeter Dist. Center., thru a Driver Service, rolling a Shuttle from GSO, NC., To Fredericksburg, VA., on I-85 in VA., about 40 miles south of Richmond, got a call from Dispatch, Driver Cam ratted on me, had Headset on, just hung up with Wife, Dispatch stated "you're not allowed to talk on a phone while driving" and I WAS DRIVING, so that alone seemed pretty peculiar.
My standard Response: "IT'S MY PHONE & HEADSET, I'LL TALK TO WHOMEVER, WHENEVER I CHOOSE! If It was so important, WHY wasn't I briefed at Base?"
I continued to Drop-n-Hook point, then back to base. THEN they "informed me about their new regulations", so I ceased making Shuttle Runs and stayed on site with a worn out Switcher Truck.
- - - - - -
Companies are so desperate for GOOD DRIVERS, I'll bet they don't make a big deal out of it.
I HOPE THEY DO NOT!!
Like others have stated, just OWN IT.

THANKS! CHEERS!!​

 

Because it was funny.

And it was meant as such.

Lighten up.

 

For 200 USD you can have your own system.
Uniden dual lens camera + 128 GB Sandisk memory card.
https://www.amazon.ca/Uniden-DC720-Automotive-Collision-Automatically/dp/B078THWXB8
If I'm not mistaken that card will loop in 14 hours and start recording over.
The benefit of having your own camera is:
You own the recordings and you can use them for your own protection on the road.
Traffic stop and charged with driving without a seat belt and with a phone in your hand?
Multiple brake checks in front of your truck?
Cut off by some car crossing 3 lanes?
The recordings will prove you did not do anything
illegal and you are an angel with a steering wheel.
Good luck, driver. Protect yourself. Nobody else will do it.

 

Great advice. I'll do it in a heart beat. I always reported and owned my mistakes and failures.
But it takes character and courage to do it.
Maybe you have it or you don't.

 

Great advice, again.

 

Please enjoy your retirement.
Your advice is always appreciated.
And it is always honest.
I'm retired myself, due to the lack of vaccination, Let go by my beloved carrier.
I was ready to go to 80 yo to get a full career, but fate decided otherwise.
Oh, well...

 

I thought that you were OP. My apologies.

 

I was for 20 years.
After retiring my Volvo, I was a company driver for 16 months.
I experienced both sides. They were all good.