How does your company promote safety?

I volunteered to participate in my companies Driver safety committee.

Compared to most companies, my company does ok with its CSA score, BUT
we are trying to reduce accidents and get drivers to Get Out And Look more.

What methods does your company use to built a "Safety Culture"?

We do annual Smith System training, and management sends messages through the on board computers about safety streaks. We are looking for better methods of getting safety on drivers' minds.

If your company doesn't do anything to promote safety, FEEL FREE TO PASS ON REPLYING, and good luck with that outfit.

 

We pay very well at my company ($65k+ 1st yr, $75k+ 2nd yr). New drivers get 2 months of one on one training on the road and working with customers of varying difficulty. We do an annual Smith System day of training, and we will cover safety topics at quarterly driver meetings.

We move mostly freight WE own (its our own product in the trailer)to our own customers buying from us. We are set up similar to Wal-Mart, so drivers are an asset to invest in, not a commodity to plan to through away.

Higher Insurance, tickets, civil judgements, cost of accidents and equipment damage simply mean less profit share.

So I'd hardly consider any of this "childish hand holding". Unless maybe you attended some amazing CDL training program that simulated blizzard conditions, correcting yourself out of a black ice skid, backing a sleeper and 53' trailer to a dock off a busy street, blown steer, etc.

To somebody else's comment: we are not required to "keep on going" during dangerous conditions. I have pulled off the road for a 10 hour break more than once to wait a storm out, I do not need permission to do so. In one circumstance, I chose to detour 8 hours around a lake effect event.

I would hate to work for an outfit that simply uses accidents to weed out drivers rather than carefully and properly select and train drivers. I'd rather drive for a company that gives a #### about their drivers rather than just be a replaceable 'tool.'

 

Not my company. that must suck when they have little regard for yours or another's llife.