See and this again sounds like we're copping an attitude with management and blaming them for trying to make us safer. you can keep the cell phone in your lunch bag or bag and return the call when you're safely stopped.
Try to keep the us versus them out of it when we're talking about safety and look at what we're trying to accomplish.
Okay, I've been on call for close to a year now.
So example. I get called in to do EAMs (they start at 530am) but I'm giving a start time of 610am cause I'm picking up the ad on's that they can't pull off and spread threw 5 zip codes.
It takes 25 min. from center to airport so I clock in 610am, find truck, do pretrip 615am, arrive at 640am. I'll get 3-5 calls before I even get to airhub from EAM Manager. I'm driving the whole time on freeway.
Manager knows What time I was given. Manager knows what time I'll get there.
And even if I don't answer the celly, she still keeps calling making sure I'm going to help them with eams from another center before i run for my own center.
I jump between both centers just to get work and I get calls from one center while I work for another about all kinds of stuff like whats your area whats your eta, can you take stops off driver X . I'll deal with up to 5 managers in a 4 hour period in my part time center hopping career.
No I can't take driver x stops because his route is 150 miles from the area I'm in which by the way I'm driven for this center today not yours sorry.
Management, call us when you know we are not driving. Even if I ignore the call, it still distracts me when I'm getting called left and right.
All this every time they call me and I haven't even started my run yet.
Note: nothing against managers, I get along with mine and we respect each other but the cell calls from them get out of control.
The plan truth!!!!