TMC publicly shaming its drivers.

No air gauges on the truck or trailer? Then I would go to the nearest public scale or avoid all the weigh stations on the route. I sure wouldn’t fly blind and pull into a scale without knowing my weight unless I knew it was a light load.

It doesn’t have to be a Cat scale. A lot of places have certified scales, you may have to toss them a few bucks to use it but at least you’d know.

 

I cannot understand why anyone would work for them anyway. Their trucks are neutered P.O.S.s How do their drivers not go insane driving 62 mph?

 

It’s small-minded petty BS.

 

I have raged stuck at 55 mph in southern regional van for DM Bowman. then I started running mid 60's to make time and stop raging. THEY started raging at me instead for breaching the 55 mph company policy. Guess what soon happened? I quit. The next company I joined gave me a ungoverned truck that would run adequately any speed limit in the Nation. And a little extra if I wanted as long its nothing too wild.

FFE had our team truck at 63. They had the speedometers showing 65 until I bought a laptop Rand GPS in the late 90's to reveal the actual speed at 63 in real time. I took the information to the FFE lancaster shop and asked them to fix the speedometer calibration to show proper speed to 63. Boy they pulled me in the office then. I showed them the screenshots evidence and so on. They asked me to let it go. And you wonder why were 20 minutes late at 63. (A team truck too...) If we were able to lope along at 70 or 75 out west there would have been no service failures. We hate those.

 

Go ahead and open it. If I got caught for a load being overweight I would have no one to blame but myself for either A. Not getting to a scale to see where the weight was or B. For not going around and avoiding the DOT scale house.

 

This isn't true. Many people out here have gone an entire career length for them with Not getting pulled over for traffic infractions, Never being involved in an at fault accident, getting popped for over weight loads...


From the sounds the company is shaming those that are at fault, why should the good drivers who do their jobs the right way at these trucking companies be punished by the actions of the bad apples.

 

Do you berate your children in public?

 

I dont have children.

 

Seems to me they are doing it “in house” not publicly. If the op hadn’t brought it up I sure wouldn’t have known about it.

 

My trainer told me the longer you stay out the better your chances of an incident because your always going to unfamiliar places. He said even when he wasnt training he go home every week. He said dedicated routes were the safest because you drive the same route day after day.