TMC publicly shaming its drivers.

Publically in house to thousands of people. Of course there not putting it up on highway billboards.

 

I guess myself and guys with many more years of safe driving experience have been doing it wrong then...

 

As long as they are listing all screw ups and not cherry picking I don’t see anything wrong with it.
It’s not being posted on the web,YouTube etc.
It has at least one driver thinking about it. Maybe that will be one less claim.

 

Good for you and me, my record is clean but only been around for a couple months. But to stay on point this was about if its a normal thing to publically call out employees drivers who have an incident by name and truck number onto the entire fleet. I have no opinion on it but find it to be a kind of ####tu thing to do.

 

We agree to disagree then.

 

Kim Jong Un of N Korea approve TMC tactic.

 

i am undecided.

on the one hand, "outting" a driver by truck number and name is not the best way to handle problems. blurred truck numbers and deleting drivers names are the best way to handle this

on the second hand, by doing this public "shamming" may indeed embarrass the driver to do better.

the down side to the "second hand way", is truck abandonment or other "get even schemes" towards the company, maybe even the office staff... on a more personal level.

not cool TMC, not cool at all.

 

Scale on premises; get reworked. Not a big can of worms, just a statute in the little green book we all have.

 

The hypothetical situation was no scale on site, no scale on route before hitting a weigh station. no alternate legal route around weigh station. Air bags only give approximates. Assume its also the weekend and delivers mknday. Your basically picking this up in the sticks.

 

The driver.

I have gone the opposite direction in order to get to a scale in order to avoid running across a weigh station with an unkown weight. If a driver gets popped between the shipper and the closest certified scale, then the company should pay. All else is the driver's responsibility.

There are times and circumstances that do necessitate public disciplining - child or adult. Peer pressure can exert tremendous influence over people's behavior - the loss of status is more effective than any other punishment, to a point. I have no problem with a parent spanking their child, I do have a problem with a parent beating their child. All things need to be taken in context and done in moderation.

A point you seem to be overlooking is that this is an attempt to create a conversation about safety. Talking about the circumstances and decisions that led up to the incident and better ways to handle it are important. By using real world scenarios it takes the discussion from academic boogy man to reality. When you hear about a guy YOU know who screwed up you start thinking "if it can happen to them it can happen to me". When the shear volume of accidents is made plain to see, it forces a person to take stock.