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they are very strict on all safety regs

Not so strict since I drive I-5 almost exclusively and have yet to see one of them driving anything close to the posted speed limit. If the company was strict they would be matching the GPS to their log books and firing the lot of them.

Does Gordon require their drivers to log lost time in traffic and on duty for all time not spent in the sleeper or away from or on the truck? I think not, since I see Gordon drivers behind the wheel at docks who I doubt like the rest of us are logging it as on duty. So not really compiling with the regs are they?

When drivers say they log legal or work for a company that requires them to log legal they usually don't know what legal logging is. Because if you did log by the letter of the law you would not work for them unless you liked sitting alot or were semi retired.

 

Gordon is no different then any other trucking co... They push there drivers to the last minute of there log book .. Gordon driver managers think very little of there drivers and try to get them to violate that little log book as much as every other trucking company out there!!! What happens is that they will push you in till you get those company violations and then you will get that message from the old safety department!! The safety department will give you a little talking to about your log book and tell ya not except the load if you can't make the load there on time and not to cheat on that little log book anymore!! Then comes the little circus of D.M.'s if you don't falsify that little book of yours the operations department will book your loads so tight that you wont make your load on time unless you screw around with your little book!! O.k. then if you do get more violations they bring you in one of those log book re-education classes!! (OR) ​

If your me you start logging you log b<IMG alt=0 border=0>ook legal and log everything as you do it and see what reaction you get from that operations department ! (This means )

1.When your at P&G and your in one of there notorious lines five trucks in front of you and your waiting in line and you still have to drop and hook!! You would log that time and the time it took you to drop and hook on your on duty line!!! (that goes for allot of there shippers.
2. When driving down I 5 run 55 miles an hour (the speed limit) and then when you get to Los Angeles area and you drop and hook in East L.A and drop the load you picked up in fontanna log all the time including the traffic!
3. When picking up that set of doubles in salt lake, ( yeah the rusty ones). Now if it only took you 15 or 30 minutes to drop your mt trailers and re-hook to the loaded one's yes breaking them apart and putting them together sighing the paper work and doing your computer work that's a false log! Try logging the real amount of time it took you to do all that work!
4. When they send you those q.c. while your driving and your required to stop within one hour and you have to pre-plan out your next trip log that time and pre- plan trip city/state.....​

5. The time it takes you to call breakdown and get your truck checked into a shop log all that time on on duty!!!

Try and do some of those things that the law requires you to log and see the reaction you get from that old safe company Gordon trucking ...The Gordon trailers when I worked there most of the old one's were falling apart at the cross members in the front Right above the the tires and the frame of the trucks ,,,,,yes I know Gordon told you not to right them up in orientation but if one falls off and you need to call otr they will say stupidly what did you hit and call that old safety department and tell them you were not doing you pre-trip!! So I recommend just taking a pics of there messed up trailers if you come across them and email to your PC and there PC........see the reaction you get out of good old Gordon trucking co....I have pics and tape's yeah there real safe alright! ​

 

I'm another newbie close to the GTI Turlock terminal. I want an update from JWalker and others about their experience with this company.

 

this item about doc time is simple:dot says do it as it happens. if you have the option to go back to your bunk then do it and log rest time, to DO IT other wise would be a false log entry. it is getting more and more that they don't want you on the doc,your in the way and represent a risk to them being there. DOT is not stupid and also believes in comon sense and reality of what is going on.stay in your 2 basic time limits, the 11 and 14 hr windows and they seldom will ask about it. during a DOT audit they go for BOL, enter and leave time if it is posted and fuel and tolls. if you were to get in an accident they will probably ask for the gps info and thats were ya get hammered. no matter how ya work it just make shure that truck sits for that 10 hr rest or more and you will make most people happy. the most critical look is done when ya do the 34 reset they tend to zero in on that with gps. a very little bending is tolerate just don't insult their smarts because they will prove it to ya.BOTTOM LINE IS....."ARE YOU RESTED" OR DRIVING FATIGUED?

 

My husband also worked for Gordon. His pay wasn't as good as mine at Barr-Nunn, but he was pretty happy there and made good money. Didn't have to run at night nor did he have to run over the clock of 14. That alone pleased him. But he did have to wash his truck, but got them to reimburse him 25 a wk for it.
They fired him for failure to report an accident in a timely manner. He went under a low clearance in Chicago after verifying directions with the company and with the customer via phone. A police officer showed up at the scene and got him out of it right away and showed him how toget to the customer. He called his DM from there and informed them what happened. He got his trailer fixed and the brought him to the WI terminal and fired him. But he tells me I should go work for them so I can be home more often and not have to work days and nights. Am thinking on it, but I sure do like Barr-Nunn's $600 bonus every 60,000 mls, and also like my DM.

 

Sounds like he reported the accident quickly to me. I can't believe they fired him. Now I can see if you do it twice...

 

Why the refresher training, something GTI requires, or is it because you want it?