FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)

I thought it was supposed to be as well, apparently after I got further clarification on it, that the linehaul calculation wasn't going to happen until January, since the policy read that if I entered the job class during the year, it would be calculated in January. So, for you starting in the springtime, my understandind may be that you won't see a true linehaul vacation calculation until January of 2021.

 

Funny, I'd leave and then FXF relaxes their "no bluetooth" policy...

 

it certainly was. Although I tended to view it as a written policy for FXF to wash their hands if a driver was on the phone while plowing into a bus full of nuns.

I wouldn’t answer a call from anyone other than friends or family. I always ignored supervisor or hub based phone calls.

“Why’d you make us wait on you just to decline that via?”
“We’re trying time plan kick outs etc.”

Wasn’t my problem. I always hoped they’d get frustrated and kick someone out below me and give me an easy mileage claim.

 

New company’s policy is zero use of a cell phone in any capacity unless parked safely and legally, the brakes are set and truck isn’t in gear.

I used to think that it was a bit overreaching while I was at FXF, but now in a capacity where a bad accident involving one of my new company’s vehicles can have considerably greater damaging impact to a larger zone... I get it. I can imagine why the company would take such a stance when you have people pulling tanks of anhydrous ammonia.

One major difference, however, is this new company includes route navigation and workflow management through the tablet.

 

Of course that one persons life lost in an accident isn’t ok, the point I’m making is that a serious enough accident from a chemical tanker has larger potential to kill many more lives and damage a lot more property, so while I can understand the policy, I don’t necessarily agree with it.

The reality is, we live in a hyper litigious society so companies feel they have to take some kind of effort to mitigate accidents, regardless of how safe the driver is.