Werner trying to force us out the door?

Idle the truck as you need to. When they complain tell them that they can either run you more which will result in a lower idle percentage, or they can just get used to your new higher percentage. If they fire you for it then enjoy your 2 years off on unemployement because not allowing you to run the truck in this heat is unreasonable treatment. The uneployment people will know this and more than likely youll be getting your benefits, and even if you dont youll be able to get another job with relative ease as a team. evenyone loves teams.

 

BigBlue, that's some of the better advise I have heard given on this forum about idiling. With that being said has OSHA ever gave an opinion on this subject?

 

Idle the truck, while you're surfing the web for a better job.

 

Stick to you guns and do not let them bully you. Does you DM shut off the AC in his house??? Ya thats what I thought.

This is your house.....Live in it.

If they fire you for violateing company policy you can challange it and they will have to divulge the policy. My guess is they will try to find somthing else. When I was at SWIFT I had weekly reviews from my DM. Before I left I printed them all out. Every Week, that way if they said something I could say, "Excuse me when did you tell me about that, cuz in my weekly review I se NUTHING!!!".

 

OSHA doesn't give a rat's rear end about some greasy, sweaty truckdriver!

There is No money in it for them!!!

 

this is nothing new for werner i worked fot them about 3 years ago and had the same problem with idealing.. down in the south 100+ degrees and didnt want me to ideal at all, sleep sitting at a shipper nothing.. I did ask my DM if he had air in his house and asked if he turned it off when he was sleeping or sitting around. his response was he paid his own bills for his house and i told him i drove the truck and without the truck moving the truck made no money so basiclly i paid the bills of that truck.. he had no response but to get the idel down or be terminated.. i quit soon after and found a better company to work for. it sucks but thats the way a lot of big companies are now days. they dont care about the driver they only care about the money

 

Everything that bothers you, ask your next employer. If 10,000 drivers say a company sucks, it sucks. I don't know why you convinced yourself to give them a chance. A company that sucks ain't gonna change their ways for you. Sounds like you have a conflict with your DM. It's not the company playing with you, it's one person.

 

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