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<blockquote data-quote="raceanoncr" data-source="post: 289452" data-attributes="member: 6408"><p>Along with Cach's and Over's comments on "work as directed"...yes, you do have to work as directed in non-safety related directives. Grieve later. I neglected to mention that in my comments before. Never refuse to perform work. UNLESS...you know it is a safety issue and you think your or the publics safety is at risk. </p><p> </p><p>This comes along with, tho, knowing what the safety regs are too. If you aren't sure, then you better brush up on them in your area of expertise. There was another time we were confronted with this and we had to work as directed because we weren't quite up on our regs at the time. We were in Dallas, instructed to take a load that had expired Federal inspection sticker. Federal inspection system was still pretty new then and my partner and I didn't pay much attention to picky details of it. We just knew if date was expired then it was bad. Company said, "You have 30-day grace period". We KNEW we didn't but didn't have proof. We didn't have DOT 800 Hot Line #, we didn't have squat! We had to take it.</p><p> </p><p>We got home, got current DOT book, looked up appropriate reg, grieved it, won it and got a written apology from company. If we would have had that info at the outset, we coulda refused to pull. WE dropped the ball there but never again. </p><p> </p><p>Bottom line: ALWAYS work as directed, UNLESS you KNOW it is a safety issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raceanoncr, post: 289452, member: 6408"] Along with Cach's and Over's comments on "work as directed"...yes, you do have to work as directed in non-safety related directives. Grieve later. I neglected to mention that in my comments before. Never refuse to perform work. UNLESS...you know it is a safety issue and you think your or the publics safety is at risk. This comes along with, tho, knowing what the safety regs are too. If you aren't sure, then you better brush up on them in your area of expertise. There was another time we were confronted with this and we had to work as directed because we weren't quite up on our regs at the time. We were in Dallas, instructed to take a load that had expired Federal inspection sticker. Federal inspection system was still pretty new then and my partner and I didn't pay much attention to picky details of it. We just knew if date was expired then it was bad. Company said, "You have 30-day grace period". We KNEW we didn't but didn't have proof. We didn't have DOT 800 Hot Line #, we didn't have squat! We had to take it. We got home, got current DOT book, looked up appropriate reg, grieved it, won it and got a written apology from company. If we would have had that info at the outset, we coulda refused to pull. WE dropped the ball there but never again. Bottom line: ALWAYS work as directed, UNLESS you KNOW it is a safety issue. [/QUOTE]
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