my x-mas gift from Barr Nunn! this job stinks

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by truckerdave1970, Dec 20, 2008.

  1. luvmyhubby

    luvmyhubby Road Train Member

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    It is this "attitude" that gives professional drivers the bad rep in the public eye. It is this behavior that allows companies to continue to have bad policy/operating standards that are not fair to drivers. IF drivers would take the time and do things the correct way, the legal way, the right way then compaines would HAVE to change their mode of operation. A strike wont happen or help even if it did happen. DRIVER BEHAVIOR has to change to bring about the changes needed in this industry to make it SAFE, for both big rigs and common people who share the road, so that DRIVERS are treated like humans NOT robots behind the wheel. You can talk til your blue in the face, ACTION is the only thing that will bring about change. The only ACTION you are able to control is your own. Take an example from basic business training or psychology class, if someone is treating you badly and you have to work with them and talking gets you no where then you have to MODIFY your behavior to get them to do or act as you want.... the "attitude" has to change for the good of everyone.
     
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  3. truckerdave1970

    truckerdave1970 On Probation

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    i couldn't agree with you more! Absolutely, drivers have to adjust their attitude and behavior to even make the changes our industry so desperatly needs!
    But who among us is going to go 1st? if you decide that today you have had enough and you are going to run 100% legal all the time, here is what will happen to you:
    1. you can count on making at least 1/3 to 1/2 as much money b/c you wont be able to take every load offered to you or you wont be able to p/u or deliver on-time. your company would be forced to split your load with another driver b/c you will always be short on hours(remember logging legal includes line 4 and all time spent waiting, loading, and loading must be noted correctly). once you have established the reputation as a legal driver, do you think the dispatcher is going to give you anything other than a crappy attitudeand all the garbage loads that no else wants?
    2. everytime you p/u a new trailer and find defective equipment, are you prepared to spend half your day trying to get it fixed? you better b/c that's the right thing to do.
    So when you add up all the time you would spend unpaid and start losing loads b/c you are not available to work, you can start to see why I might have the "attitude" that I do. My family and bill collectors dont care why i didnt make $.
    Until we all have to play by the same rules and get paid for everyrthing we do, nothing will change!!! Who wants to go first?
     
  4. KGB0911

    KGB0911 Light Load Member

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    you know something? I will clue you in on a secret that some obviously dont have. There is a guy by the name of Ken. had this convention he spoke at, and he said "there are 3 rules to life. Learn to live with nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose." I wish i kept this tape, because i sure could use to listen to it from time to time. Why 'prove' to anybody anything? why change who you are and azzkiss to get what you want? (i.e. more miles, bigger paycheck, etc.) Sorry, i dont get on my knees for anybody, and i wont be anything but myself. Worry about YOU first, then you worry about others. I ran into this gal i use to work with. We talked about working in the casino business, etc. She loves it. I told her i liked it, but all the brown nosing you had to do to get promoted. She said 'yeah, but i got the job i want and make better money.' And i said, 'yeah, but i didnt compromise myself, i still am who i am, and that is better than a bigger paycheck.'
     
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  5. The Challenger

    The Challenger Kinghunter

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    with the economy being this bad, theres no reason to fudge logs. I think its wrong; however, if its your first time offense, there should be less consequences.

    KH
     
  6. DBL_TIME

    DBL_TIME <strong>"Two Mints in One"</strong>

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    If you live with nothing to hide and nothing to prove you won't have to worry about living with nothing to lose it will already be gone. What does that have to do with anything? The guy who wrote that sounds like a loser. I do what I want to do if I decide to run illegal or not it is not because I'm worried about what somebody else thinks or that I'm trying to prove something to somebody I do what I do for me and mine. So you can't equate everybody that says they run illegal to a butt kisser.
     
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  7. davan2004

    davan2004 Light Load Member

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    So what happened afterward? Did your company's safety department call you in?
     
  8. slingblade07

    slingblade07 Light Load Member

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    I have been keeping up with this post and it just makes me think back to the guys that say they log it just like they do it, and dont cheat the logs blah blah blah. I had a situation the other night, got the shipper at 2100, was told it will be a few hours before they could get to me, thats a few hours past my appointment time. So I set my alarm for then and nap. Get up go check in, says it will be longer, so wait about another hour or 2, dock is open so get in the seat pull to the dock, now would you log that on line 3? Legally was supposed to. So takes them about 3 hrs to load me by this time its after 6am, get in the seat pull out and park till 7am so I have a 10hr reset, but did I? No legally I didnt. Would you log it like it happened? Doubt it.

    Or anyone get in a traffic jam, and decide hmmm think I will take an hour break now?
     
  9. MGASSEL

    MGASSEL Road Train Member

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    My company's policy was if less than 15 min do not log it.
     
  10. panhandlepat

    panhandlepat Road Train Member

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    it just happenend a couple of days ago.
     
  11. davan2004

    davan2004 Light Load Member

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    oh ok. keep me updated if anything happens
     
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