Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Yikes. You guys sure you don’t work in the Safety department?

 

You mean “Logs & Compliance”

 

Just found out the hard way.
Unhooked from trailer to drive around to office to see why I’m not being loaded yet.
Hit YM instead of PC,and my 10 was reset

 

Thays what we have been saying it would do

 

I do work in the safety department.

I'm also 5/5 in telling safety critters to pound sand.

 

Can you elaborate? It sounds like you are telling your own department off by the way that's worded.

 

I regularly tell my coworkers to piss off, but only when I'm right.

Two years ago we started using an automated log audit program to compare dispatch times to log books. At the time I was running an account that was primarily extreme short haul for a customer that was rather disorganized. That resulted in a lot of verbal dispatches and we'd catch the computer work up later. There are limits to how far we can back date tasks, so we'd gun deck the computer work and OPs would fix it on their end. As a result I got flagged for 'log falsification' a LOT, yet by the time I called in, OPs had already fixed the times so the safety critters couldn't find the violation, so some of them would start making stuff up.

One safety critter looked at my logs and told me that FMCSA regs said that pretrips must be a minimum of 30 minutes. I said "that's interesting, where is that in the Green Bible?", he didn't know what that was until I explained it. Then he back pedaled and said it was 'company policy'. I asked for what page in the training manual. Then he tried saying "it's impossible" and I retorted that I had done a narrated demo pretrip during trainer recert in 10:30 and if I don't narrate I can do it in under 9 minutes. The conversation started going downhill and he threatened to get my Safety Manager involved. I called his bluff and conferenced in the SM myself.

I had another tell me it's "impossible" to fuel in under 5 minutes. I made him pull up the ignition/brake set records (yes, we have a record of every time a driver sets the tractor brakes) and showed him that I went on duty 5 seconds after setting the brakes, fueled, fired up the truck and left. Then he started on "it's inefficient to only put in 50 gallons", and I explained I was getting expensive fuel but even if it was cheap I needed the shower credits and I was playing games with the fuel optimizer to up my average of compliant fuelings for the bonus.

 

@gentleroger saw this in my feed. Someone gone put the container on backwards again.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yZAm69DNJk8?feature=share

 

They evidently have a new policy now… They want an ETA of date and time of when you’re going to deliver a load even if you’re sitting down the street from the customer 24 hours before the delivery appointment they still want to know your ETA… It’s goes for every single load you’re on they don’t care if you’re tracking in the customers driveway they wanna know what time you’re gonna be there.

 

Maybe this is their backwards way of reducing the workforce, and it’s likely to be a success.