K&B Transportation - Sioux City, IA

KB does pay for a clean inspection,$50.00 and $100.00 with the nationwide 3 day event.

 

You know folks,Abes video wasn't to target KB or his dispatcher,it was to promote safety awareness for truckers and non truckers.What happens with companies should not happen otherwise why all the laws?You give them an inch they'll take a mile every time.Companies could care less about the drivers and there safety.Loads and money is the name of the game.There is far too many asskissers in trucking and does your dispatcher care,heck no they don't..KB did not talk to this dispatcher now hes calling Abe Mr.Sleepy.

 

Some people got it!
You know what they say about attempting to repair those with lesser intelligence???

 

Thanks for clearing up the law on this. I just didn't want the company's lawyers chewing him up and spitting him out over the video going public.

 

Drivers are always complaining about trucking and this industry , this may just be a doorway in to set change into motion.

Its great to see this fellow expose them on You Tube

Enough exposure and the mass media may make sit up and take notice , exposing

this miserable industry even further.

Power to the People !

K & B Transportation (Sioux City,Ia)


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[TD]Unsafe Driving[/TD]
[TD="class: performance"]

19%​

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[TD="class: nagperformance"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: nondeficient"] [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD] Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance[/TD]
[TD="class: performance"]

51.5%​

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[TD="class: nagperformance"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: nondeficient"] [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD] Driver Fitness[/TD]
[TD="class: performance"]

70.1%​

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[TD="class: nagperformance"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: nondeficient"] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Controlled Substances and Alcohol[/TD]
[TD="class: negperformance"]

80%​

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[TD="class: nagperformance"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: deficient"] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Vehicle Maintenance[/TD]
[TD="class: performance"]

53.1%​

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[TD="class: nagperformance"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: nondeficient"] [/TD]
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Let me ask you all something? If you are hauling a specific freight and your loads come out at midnight wouldn't you try to develop a 3rd shift attitude as far as a work shift and sleep in the daytime or even second shift? When you change your own sleep habits you screw yourself up.

Before this load he had a back haul and he had the choice of driving 1st shift, arrive at customer, take 10 and deliver... or he could of picked up that back haul, took his break during the daytime because he is a 3rd shift driver... drove and delivered. He had that choice. You can't expect to change your sleep habits every 48 hours. This is where experience comes into play with managing sleep. You do everything possible to maintain the same sleep habits. It is possible in most cases to swap drive now sleep later with sleep now drive later to keep a somewhat similar sleep schedule.

When he got done his back haul he knew his next load was a meat load coming out around midnight. Though tired the first 10 he decided to lay down then. That was his first mistake changing his sleep schedule. Some drivers will do anything to run day shift. They ain't cut out or don't give 3rd shift a chance. You can't do this in the meat business. Most meat haulers deliver 4-9am. That's when you first hit the sleeper on the dock. Pull away and finish your break off. A good meat hauler sleeps at the customer at both ends. You don't see them in trucks stops but to fuel and maybe sleeping during the daytime. You might see one sitting at a truck stop in the evening near a processing plant but he'll pull out by 10 pm.

Ask any of these 3rd shift linehaul drivers if they stay up during the weekends. Nope they maintain the same sleep schedule or you play hell on Monday.

My guess is Abe hasn't been hauling meat long enough to figure out the tricks.

Read any meat thread we have and you'll see someone saying you sit a lot. You do but when the load comes out your expected to put her in the wind. How you manage them 20 or so hours is on you. First break, do I go ahead and sleep all night or do I stay up? Me? I'm staying up. Though I don't know the exact load scenario ahead of me I do know one thing, I am running all night.

How do you make any money with all that sitting? Long haul. You average 900-1200 miles a run. By the end of the week you are on your 3rd long haul. Some checks have 2 runs on them some 3 but they average out 2500-3000 miles a week when you add two checks together.

 

Most meat haulers look like that. Hirschbach sure did when I left but they are trying to change since they were forced to use EOBRs. K&B it was a year or two ago had to pay out several million for a fatality. Did they change their ways? Nope. Why $3-$3.30 mile makes them money hungry.

 

Condo Cruiser

We haul mostly Tyson meats where i work. (i'd say 80% of our loads are pulled from Tyson Live kill plants,the other 20% are loads to get us back to a Tyson plant )

100% of the people I have talked to at this small company make it clear to dispatch that , don't expect us to take a ten hr break and sit ALL day and then be expected to

load and run just about the time the brain is saying sleep again.

These companies , pay very little , have no benefits , no nothing, the life out here is miserable , and I'm beginning to see drivers say enough is enough .

So there's the story from my end

.02

 

I get it now....go ahead and wreck into my wife and kids. The driver was hauling meat. He gets a pass.