I work in the "office"

Is that a picture of you? Look in the mirror. You're the one who can't get along. Did you think that maybe I'm reacting to the way your acting? Your actions have been reprehensible.

Margaret

 

Did I say they don't allow me to meet people? What I said was that I'm contracted and never get near where the drivers are. Someone delivers boxes full of logs, and I do what I need to and when I'm done someone comes and picks up the boxes and reports. My office is nowhere near where the trucks and drivers are - in fact in most cases, I'm not even in the same city or province.

You are without a doubt the most ignorant person I've ever met. You keep slamming my personality traits while ignoring your own.

I get along well with most people the rare exception is a donkey like you.

And even you I could get along with if I thought it would make any difference, but your thrill for the weekend is trying to get a rise out of me.

Have fun.

Margaret

 

Well good for you! I'm glad that your drivers all hand in their logs with no problems.

I'm not preaching to the converted but as someone else pointed out the bad drivers are not likely to be reading this forum.

Margaret

 

My job is data entry of what's on the logs - I don't change the logs and since my contracting business is at arm's length from the trucking companies and therefore the drivers, I don't have any way to directly make suggestions to the drivers. All I can do is write a memo when I see a new driver who is trying real hard, but just can't seem to get the hang of it.

It would be good if the companies I work for would take that approach and have the driver re-do the logs on a new sheet, but I don't think that happens here because the same drivers do the same things month after month.

Bad habits seem to come right out of school for some of them. One thing new drivers seem to do often is use the comments area as a kind of personal diary - stopped or a sandwich, had a shower, coffee break, but for days on end doesn't note where he is. I don't know about the US, but here, they're supposed to note a recognizable point on a map - highway intersection, city or town and province, or exit on a big road - every time they have a change of duty status.

One that I did this morning, used a computer, but then handed in some of his hand-written logs for the same days - and they were different than the computer ones. On the computer ones, all he marked was kicking the tires at 6:45 and then drove for 11 hours non-stop and went to bed. That's not good enough considering that I also have fuel reports showing all kinds of other stops.

The vast majority of drivers take great care with their logs and you can tell they have pride in their work.

Just as you folks have the odd shipper that you'd like to throttle, there are drivers that make us shake our heads too.

Take care, Margaret