Roehl Driver Check In Continued

You need at least a year before you have any negotiating power. During that year you need avoid contact with anything that's not a loading dock and keep your CDL clean. Do that and you are good to go. Hit a few things or get a speeding ticket or two and you will be at the mercy of the company.

 

that was the actually the point of it, was to keep your balance with the driver positive. don't ask for favors over and over and make it an unfair relationship. I thought the training was stupid, it is kind of common sense. Treat people decent or they'll quit. Maybe it's because the majority of the staff have never had people to manage before and they know there is a high likelihood that people will go on a power trip and adopt a "do as I say" type of attitude.

 

Here's an idea, especially for all you new drivers. When you get a load that's 45K pounds, SCALE IT!!

Especially if it's a relay. I picked up a relay today that was over on the tandems and they were back as far as they could legally be. There was no scale ticket with the bills.

 

Lol, wasting your time, though I feel ya.

 

When I get a relay that's in poor condition like that, I let my fleet manager know and send photo if appropriate; it seems to be about all you can do. (Unless anyone has other suggestions.) I'd like to believe that the fleet managers will ping each other when stuff like that happens, so the other driver can be counseled, or if it's a repeat occurrence, handled "appropriately." But maybe that's just me.

 

Keep believing. All I've heard since I've been here about the locals in Gary not scaling, or securing correctly. Well still goes on, I've also send in things about heavy loads relayed with no ticket, I don't even bother anymore. Just scale it myself and move on.

 

Of course, that's all well and good unless the only way to get the load legal is to go back to the shipper and have stuff removed and/or get the load moved on the trailer. Seems like that would be the kind of expense the company would care about enough to take some action on.

 

By heavy I meant needed to be scaled. Not overweight. So far only once I've had to go back to the shipper, and that was on my load, not a relay.

 

We need to washout vans before going to shipper in St Louis, when drivers D&H and dropped isn't washed then next driver has to take it 5 miles to truck wash, wait in line, have it washed and then take it back. All because drivers don't follow instruction that say its mandatory that trailers be washed out before being dropped.

 

They've been notified.