I don't know you. I am pretty much just trying to yank your chain. I just strongly disagree with most of your post on here. I lived in Boston for awhile and I have never met such arrogant football fans in my life. So if I have stereotyped you I apologize but the Pats do cheat and I think it is a shame that the NFL hasn't banned them from this Super Bowl.
Thanks Irish. That is exactly the point i am trying to make here. It sickens me all the brown nosers get the safest most modern truck. Every single safety member is in a brand new truck. The reason most of these people are on the safety committee is because they where coerced due to there poor safety history. Most on the committee are ass kissers who skip/modify lunch, speed the truck on two wheels and bounce off fixed objects like a cat uses it's whiskers to gauge the tolerances of small openings. I on the other hand do all methods including hour lunch 12-1 and every safety method ad nausea. As a driver who dots his i's and crosses his t's I file on every contract violation I see. There are a handful of old clunkers in the yard. I call these cars the "punishers". When you don't fall into line and are not a company drone you are awarded a "punisher". Guess which truck I have.
Then if you think they're bad you should meet a packer fan once....good god. Or a ndsu hockey fan.
Here is what a good friend of mine tells them when he gets an old, unsafe truck. He goes to his manager and says, "if something happens to me today in this truck tell my family I love them". He also says to the manager. He has told his family to never settle out of court and to go to the media and tell them how this multi billion dollar company puts drivers in trucks without shoulder harnesses or head protection but spends millions on big brother technology. He usually has a safe truck the next day. He thinks this works because management has to record every conversation they have with a driver. Especially the Union minded drivers. By making this comment he has informed the company of their liability and informed them of future liability and potential litigation and media attention. These are all things that the company goes out of their way to protect their interest.
Again.... good try. I have my sources, lol. I think that people that are actually doing the job have a much better idea of what's going on than some Union official who is looking at a document that the company gave them as factual.Remember your training.
Where do you get the 15% ?
Is that a guess.... Or, something you made up ?
How did UPS ever get so far ?
I drove pkg cars, that had wooden bulk head doors.
Just like a lot of veterans here.
Yep.
And then (sometimes), run over by their own truck.
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Union Stewart ?
That explains a lot.
You are really making no sense today. Maybe you should go take a nap and when you wake up maybe your thoughts will be clearer. I expect so much better from you.
Now that is hilarious! Explain how a truck without head protection and a shoulder harness is safe? Mechanics will not replace low back seats or lap belts because of the liability of potentially installing one incorrectly.
What's the center manager supposed to tell the family if he's in a brand new pkg car with a high back seat with shoulder harness belt and something happens? Maybe every driver should tell their family they love them every day and leave UPS out of it.
Couldn't agree more. When I first started I would be pissed off in the morning if the Car I had was a piece, or had no power steering. Now I don't give a rats. Thankfully most of the non power steering cars have been junked in my center. But if I went in tomorrow and had a high step 10 cube with no power steering I wouldn't even think twice about it. It is what it is. As long as the check cashes that's all that matters to me.
The point is, if the manager is sending you out in a unsafe vehicle. By telling him to tell your family that you love them is planting a seed in his subconscious.That facing your family after a tragic accident and knowing you may have survived it if he hadn't sent you out in an unsafe vehicle just might get him to rethink sending someone out in a death trap. I really shouldn't have to explain this. It is pretty much common sense.
I understood your point counselor, I just pointed out the absurdity of it. You think a center manager has magical powers and can pull new cars out of the air? If the center manager succumbs to the "subconscious" fear, he or she just moves the "deathtrap" car on another driver. What does he tell that family?
Yes, it's a dilemma but that is not for me to figure out. Maybe lease safer vehicles when you can't provide one. I believe this multi billion dollar company can afford it. If they really cared about safety.
I rated this post "creative" in the absence of a "delusional" option.
