Bruce Oakley Trucking (Bulk)

Plenty of their guys have deleted trucks.

 

Old post but I agree. This ain't 1950. They are allowed a dress code but these days things have changed. As it should be. We have a constitution and federal law. Discrimination is being more widely applied. Clean shave requirement would violate some religious rights. So saying no to hiring a person because they have a beard would be a violation of freedom of religion and federal civil rights hiring laws for religious discrimination . Muslims, Amish etc require the beard and/or long hair.

 

And if you do not comply with their " request" you will just be starved out.
This is every company not just them.

 

Or just stop being offended with everything and work somewhere else?

It's not like they're forcing you to work there.

And I don't know what laws you're reffering to considering you're a contractor not a employee at Oakley.

 

Being a contractor does not make one exempt from the laws.

 

The clean shaven rule is most probably one required by Oakley customers, not just Oakley themselves. Here you're dealing with OSHA and EPA rules for proper handling of hazardous substances, and the dictates of corporate safety personnel and lawyers.

I haul Anhydrous Ammonia, an inhalation hazard....and get enough of a whiff and it WILL kill you. When hooking up and unhooking your hoses when loading, you are required to wear a full face respirator. After you start the process, you leave it off until you unhook. The clean shaven rule is to guarantee your respirator seals completely.

In our business Koch Industries is the only one that has a clean shaven policy they enforce, and at my current company we load there very seldom. Most terminals we go to do the loading so we're not in the danger zone anyway. Unloading is our decision on what PPE to wear at 90% of the places we go, mostly rural co-ops.

 

It isn’t because of that. I wanted to lease onto them and have a beard that I don’t want to get rid of. I may have been swayed to if it was in fact for hazmat/ppe. I asked the recruiter and he said it had nothing to do with that. He said the owner has always had that rule and it was for professionalism. I personally don’t think you need to be clean shaven to be professional but they do so I didn’t lease on with them. Everything else about them seemed great, I’ve never heard anyone talk bad about them from the guys I’ve talked to who drive for them so if you’re clean shaven then I would give them a call.

 

I don't lease to Oakley (I pull for another outfit out of N. Little Rock), but I load out of there all the time. I've talked to many of their drivers. I've never heard much bad about them. You have a lot of opportunities there. They have bottom hoppers, end dump, pneumatic bulk, etc... The only thing I will caution you about if you decide to go bottom hopper is there's a load out of the port in Pine Bluff that you'd be wise to avoid. I deliver to that "S Hole" quite frequently. I don't have any issues because they want what I have and can't wait for me to blow it into their silo, but the loader there HATES truck drivers. You'll sit there for 2 hours before he even thinks about loading you. I've taken 2 or three loads there back to back (4 or 5 hours to do that) and some poor old Oakley bastige will still be sitting there waiting to get loaded. Ouch!

 

As I see it if you refuse to take on someone based upon their hair , ridiculous anyway since it is a biological mater not a accessory from the store, you could likely be violating some people's rights.
Dress codes should apply in some situations. That is my opinion. Let's say a doorman at a upscale hotel. Should be dressed accordingly because customers expect it.
But a end dump driver ? Come on. That is just ridiculous. Every facility your driver's go to, and that is all your driver's, have employees with beards , stach, long hair, purple hair , nose rings etc..
No one in the industry would expect a clean cut well dressed driver to show up and dump in a nasty filthy stinking area. It's a dirty job.
Now being presentable and reasonably clean is expected and should be the case if possible.

 

Exactly. The owner , now his kids I believe, has the same ideals as my dad did. Long hair and a beard is horribly bad. My dad hated it. Would not allow his own brother at his house because of it.
Absolutely ridiculous.
These same people will stand up proud for our founding fathers and constitution even though many had long hair and beards. It was in fact proper to have it for thousands of years. They wore wigs to have long hair. Mainly because of lice etc in them days.
The uber elite kings etc had it or wore a wig.
Not sure how it became bad. Maybe the 60s did it.
But it is wrong.
Many very professional people have long hair and or beards.