Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I used to see guys jump in a truck without any pretrip at our dock, all the time. Nor would they even consider doing a posttrip.
I saw it as a management issue! Just like the linehaul drivers that turned in the exact same log, with only the odometer readings changed, day after day. That was caught in an audit. Oooops.

 

"Safety Meeting" today at work. Almost 3 hours long those are always taxing on my mind and make me feel bad about my self.

I don't know we usually have 4 safety meetings a year and that's plenty there also long enough trust me.

 

No thank god we have ours after work. This one that we had was well mehhh that's all I'll say.

 

Why in the world would a safety meeting make you feel bad about yourself? Unless you are seeing something there that you are doing, and have managed to get through it with nobody getting hurt. And honestly, Mike, if you are seeing yourself there, then thank God for those meetings where you can gain knowledge through somebody else's screw up!

I hope you are paid for going to them! I worked for an aggregate outfit, (for a short time,) where they'd have"tailgate safety meetings," Before your shift started. They were "mandatory attendance," for which we were never paid. Nowhere but Utah could an outfit get away with not paying hourly employees for mandated "training..."
At least my last outfit had them on the clock...
But a three hour safety meeting is self defeating! No matter how much they apply to your job, nor how good they are, there's no way most, if not all of us, would find attention wandering after about 45 minutes!

 

Heard a pop and a high pitched wheezing come from under the hood this morning. Thought it might be the turbo. Called the shop, we diagnose over the phone that none of the rubber joints are torn, no loose\missing clamps, and no oil leaking.
But also no power AT ALL.
Shop says limp it home (just over 30 miles away).
I made it 2, when the TURBO exploded and smoked me out of the cab and left a nice puddle under the truck. I've never seen that much smoke come out of a vehicle that wasn't already on fire.
Maybe next time they will listen when I tell them something is wrong.

 

Don't hold your breath, remember, to them, we are just dumb drivers.....

 

Our safety meetings touch on safety but there more internal company business and other politics. My feeling bad was with Xata scoring.

 

Xata (and Peoplenet) scoring is a silly metric to make some middle management drones feel like their job has a purpose.