paperless log and people following u video tapping u

well i just finished my orentation today in richmond va for a dedicated account i will be doing for them i told my self i would never driver for one of the big 3 but i need to be home weekends so here i am lol but we where told straight up that they now have a company they hired to follow swift trucks and video tape them doing stupid stuff and the videos are sent to the terminal saftey director ever day which i think is good weeds out all the morons but sucks that they had to come to that point they did this due to there 99 safe stat rating they had and are now down in the high 60's and they confirmed that they are going to be going to the paperless logging system within a couple months was supposed to start last year but when the company was bought that was put to the back burner .... as for as the orentation if anyone wants to know it was 2 1/2 days hotel was nice they provided lunch the people where funny and nice kinda unorganized but overall was good

 

At least they are doing something to fix the problem.

 

and creating a full time job for someone else...

 

Soon they'll find a way to tie it into the traffic camera's that watch the roads. Then they'll hire an Indian firm to offshore the work to.

 

yea but they also told us in orentation that jb hunt filed for bankruptcy which was ######## don't know why they told us that

 

they need to fix the problem buy having more stringent rules for there trainers and not just letting anyone with a year exp do it they have some of the worst trainers i think

 

Year? It used to be 6 months exp and you could be a trainer with them...

 

You never know who is watching, but video tape has replaced written reports. I drove for a company insured by Markel. At least, Markel used marked cars so drivers generally knew when they were being followed. Speed and lane usage were items they checked. Later, our logs were compared with location and direction on the Markel report. Drivers made sure their logs were accurate at that point. The Markel inspector was paid $6 per report in the 1970s. Drivers received coupons for uniforms with every good report.

Markel assisted in passing the National Motor Carrier Act of 1935 which allowed state and federal authorities to regulate truckers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markel

 

yea they just upped it to a year since the company was bought and not publicly traded anymore they are making alot of big changes they arent hiring as many people as they use to i would never be a otr driver for them but my dedicated account is awesome,,, like i said in the other post i never thought i would drive for them but u gotta do what u gotta do and it seems they are really trying to make changes in the company since they where bought out and i am one of the ones that use to make fun of them on the radio and i still do it lol but hey we are all drivers out here just trying to make a living

 

This was a selling point for Central Reefer also... as well as Swift.. when I spoke to their recruiters 4 years ago after getting my CDL... "come drive with us for 6 months and we'll make you a trainer... you can be making $100k by the end of your 1st full year driving... right. As we all have, I learned when the lips are moving, it's a lie coming out. lol And my trainer with Central... was a joke... we ran team from day one. The day he got me at the terminal, he told me to drive, here's the map if you get lost, and he went to sleep for nearly 8 hours as I just drove on into the night. My first day. By week two, we were team driving 5 hours on and 5 off with me doing most the night time driving and lucky to have 4 hours sleep at a time. The dude was a nutcase, never showered...and his idea of dinner was a bag of chips and soda. Yep, inexperienced trainers... looking for one thing... $$$. There's gotta be good ones, but man, I sure got the Ace of Central's fleet.