Company tricks driver.

You've made assumptions all through this thread.

You support a system that bypasses an already paid for insurance policy to save the company money and you call that responsibility. If you don't get this I don't know how else to dumb it down.

 

Craziest thing I've ever found during a pretrip was an S-cam that wasn't fully contacting the rollers on the brake shoes, because when the shop installed the slack adjuster they failed to properly install the shims, which allowed the S-cam to shift to the side. How exactly did I find that? By doing a complete and thorough pretrip inspection on the trailer I was hooking to.

But hey, YOU don't pretrip the trailers YOU hook to...so that must mean NOBODY is a professional out here doing the job the right way. Whatever you've got to tell yourself to help you sleep at night...

 

When did I say I didn't pre trip a trailer? Can you find where I said that? See that was an assumption.

 

I was simply responding to the following ignorant statement:

Again, just because YOU don't perform thorough inspections of the equipment doesn't mean that NOBODY does.

 

Based on what I've read, I believe you are completely wrong regarding an employer keeping the final paycheck.
Damages to company equipment must be PROVEN. An employer cannot just deduct monies or keep the final paycheck based on their judgement alone.
Google Final Paycheck Laws by State.
Google Can employer force employee to pay for damaged equipment.

 

Right, where did I say I didn't do a pre trip? Come on you know I didn't, man up. You made a mistake, take some responsibility.

 

You seem to imply in your posts that certain things are easily missed during a pretrip. I'm merely pointing out that if you take your job seriously and do the job properly, those things you claim are easy to miss WOULD NOT be overlooked. The fact that you've repeatedly made claims as to the difficulties you may run into tells me that you aren't one to take it upon yourself to do the job correctly if that might mean getting your hands dirty or maybe spending a couple bucks to procure whatever tools or equipment you need might to get the job done. You then attempt to project your own deficiencies onto me in a lame attempt to justify your own inadequate job performance. There is a difference between those of us who strive to be professional drivers and others who are merely here for a paycheck and unwilling to do more than the bare minimum...the "I'm a driver, not a mechanic" (or whatever else might make you useful beyond holding that steering wheel) crowd.

 

Right and there is a difference between us professional drivers and the steering wheel holders who accept that deductibles are the drivers responsibility and that logging tons of on duty hours actually makes you a lot less money. Probably because that's what you learned in orientation, there is a better way. But first you must quit assuming.

I thought you said you were going to bed, don't you have an hour pre trip to do in the morning? Hope I didn't rile you up too much, it's just a difference of opinion.

 

Anybody who follows my posts on here is scratching their head right about now trying to figure out WTF you're smoking. Everything you are trying to portray me as is 180 degrees out of phase. I've always been a strong advocate of logging time as you do it in addition to being an adult and taking responsibility for your own actions. To imply otherwise shows that you haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about and quite honestly aren't worth the time or effort continuing on with this conversation. Perhaps some day you'll get a handle on that whole reading comprehension thing, because every question you've asked has been answered in this thread...sometimes even by multiple individuals, because while one person's example to illustrate his point may have been specific to his own situation, the concept surrounding the potential resolutions are common across the board. If you screw up because you weren't paying attention or because you were doing something you weren't supposed to be doing, and that screw up costs somebody else money to fix the damage you caused, the right thing to do is accept responsibility for your screw up and make it right. If you don't want to have to dig into your own pocket to pay for damage you cause, it is quite simple: Don't cause damage and there will be nothing to repay. If you'd rather be careless as you do your job, that's fine too...and if you happen to tear something up in the process and choose to be immature about it and skirt responsibility over the situation, don't be surprised to find yourself unemployed. That isn't necessarily directed at you personally, but rather you generally...as in anybody...unless, of course, it hits too close to home in which case it may have been about you. Again, it goes back to reading comprehension...work on it.

 

I wonder how many times a day the phrase "reading comprehension" gets thrown around. Usually by the person who has some trouble with it. For instance I never said you weren't known for logging "legally". I said it was costing you money. Hope you didn't stay up too late.