Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I don't believe you get very many points for them, if they are laying in a traffic lane. OTOH, just catch the lip on the base with an outside tire, and watch those things fly. I believe you can nearly retire on the points from that!

also pox on the ######## who don't write anything up.

Grabbed a dolly, hooked a set, drove off, got to the terminal to break teh set and the 5th wheel handle won't stay in the released position.

finally had to go find a warehouse worker, here hold this out and watch your feet while I pull forward.
and then of course, switch dollies again.[/QUOTE]

Good reason to carry a decent large vice grip!

 

Seriously, do OSHA, the DOT and all these other agencies that are supposedly 'protecting workers' even EXIST in your state?? How the blessed blue hell has this company not been sued into a parallel dimension??

 

Blood in urine is not something to mess with. I got myself hospitalized for 6 days with a nasty kidney infection a week after starting a new job, by ignoring that. Doctors told me in no uncertain terms to lay off energy drinks, coffee and soda...their contention was that a weakened immune system started the infection and all the sugary crap I was ingesting fed it.

My company was nice about it, thankfully. I walked right back in to work once I was released, with no issues from them.

 

I had blood in my urine last year. Turned out to be renal cancer. Screw to company. No job is worth dying for. Joe Bob don't need his skid of widgets nearly as bad as that driver needs his health.

 

And the reason for that is---????? Because the company is trying to save a nickle. And as usual, at the expense of the driver.
Nothing new there.

 

I work for a VERY small fleet; and we wouldn't compromise the fact that HEALTH equals overall SAFETY. We'd find a way to work around it; and yes, legally.