So why does everyone hate the safety director?

Safety guy is the guy that gets on your case
For doing what your dispatcher ordered

 

The Safety Director should ALSO dispatch,might clear some of the confusion..Then again,might not..Aw hell,now I'm confused..

 

So in conclusion; after reading every post here, it would be safe to say that everyone hates the safety director cause the safety director is in bed with dispatch AND at the same time become an A-hole and all technical when they want to be to the drivers!?!? ... maybe ...


MAYBE! Safety Directors should be governed by the state... maybe

 

They are....
FMCSR and state regs....

There job is to make sure the ducks are in a row, the t's are dotted and the i's are crossed.

 

ok, that's good to know, but I meant more like a government agent like the CIA or FBI; that when the CSA Safety Inspector comes knocking on the company door, the companies start trembling ... like for x-amount of trucks have one Safety Inspector. When I worked @ the airport whatever work we did was supervised directly by one of their safety inspectors and man, those guys were no joke. They made us do the work over and over till we got it right

 

Ever thought about sitting down with the person about their job to really understand what it is they do? Where they get THEIR guidance.

 

And all compensated hours are on 'duty' and affect the hours available to either the mechanic or the teacher...

AND the 100 air mile exemption is an exemption to drawing a log; HOS still applies so you need to monitor for 60 - 70 hour violations.

While a 100 air mile can only work 12 consecutive hour shifts, [5] 12 hour days hits 60 hrs in 7 days and [6] 12 hour days hits 72 hrs in 8 days so an air mile guy at a company that operates trucks 24/7/365 [determinse 60 in7 VRS 70 in 8] would be in HOS violation if he worked his full 12 hour shift on the Monday following 5 days of 12 hour shifts...

 

In general, the safety director makes decisions based on reports that he reads. He has (most likely) never driven a mile in a truck, never fingerprinted freight, and never worked a day in the dispatch office. He has no perspective as to how the decisions he makes will affect drivers and dispatchers, nor does he care.

Therefore, in my opinion, he is totally unqualified to make decisions concerning how other company employees do their jobs.


The only time it gets worse is when the safety man is on a power trip...

 

Very true in alot of cases they are ex law enforcement people. I grew up w/ trucking, washed trucks, changed tires and helped do maintenance while paying for college. Great way to learn how to drive.

Graduated during a recession and I ended up driving a lowbed for a construction company b/4 getting a job dispatching gas and fuel oil...

Moved on to chemical tankers doing 20 years of operations b/4 driver training and safety. Also worked with rail to truck learning dry bulk while setting up liquid transfer. I also set up mock spills for the NJ DEP and taught 'first responders' at a fire school. Employed as a safety director since 1998. I have more hours in the right seat than some guys have behind the wheel.

I'm still bound by what 'management' lets me do.