I see several individuals who i feel would be totally fine with complete government control, and would gladly turn in their own mothers for violating a petty rule.
In the end it's rules like these that assist in removing our rights on the roads. The govt's and insurance companies push these companies to have these rules, then when they aren't satisfied, they push for more rules. My company doesn't want us texting while driving, but we can talk all we want so long as is hands free. I need to be able to speak with my wife and kids at
Feel how you will, but your own post proves my point
Allowing companies to monitor your cellphone usage.
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WM has had many accidents and im pretty sure that has to do with why they are getting more stricter.The more accidents companies have the more policies they have.
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If it's a company phone, fine by me, happy to have it over.
My personal phone is just that, personal. Good thing I have no intentions of driving for Wally.
But I have to wonder, how much of your privacy are you willing to give up? If they slip the phone past, then perhaps it's time for 24/7 behavior, performance, health, sleep and the list goes on and on and on.
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those of you angry at these guidelines are misdirecting your anger. there would not be said rules if drivers hadn't messed up in the first place. be angry with dumb drivers, don't be angry with those in compliance of rules made at the hand of someone else's stupidity.
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Conflict. More like a compromise between free usage and no use at all.
If your company were to allow driving only during daylight hours, and could justify it by safety records, isn't it their " right" to do so? If they feel they can make it work financially, what's to keep them from doing it? Don't like it? I think you know the answer. -
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Don't like a policy, go somewhere else. It's really that simple. If you need the money deal with it, most people don't want to stay on the phone all day anyways.
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I take my privacy very seriously. What's my business is mine. I don't go digging around in other people's back yard's sticking my nose in their business, they can stay the hell out of mine.
However, if people allow this to continue happening, then the company(s) may get bolder and perhaps take it further. How about 24 / 7 monitoring of the truck with various camera's? Do we give in to this as well, being monitored all the time? Would you let the company in your home to search it because one of the other dumb drivers takes things off his rig and takes it home? "This person stole company property, all of our other drivers are doing it as well." Are we all to be branded with the same iron?
One size does not fit all. It would seem the government and companies want us to conform to this particular way of thinking.
If some wish to be cattle and corralled all in to one pen, then do so. I enjoy my freedoms a little too much to follow that path or compromise those freedoms which many men and women fought and died for.
Is it just me, or does this conversation remind anyone of the Borg - "Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply." -
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