I am the highest seniority PT person in my center that wants to drive. I had a really bad feeling that something like this was going to happen to me. I try to be so careful but quick at the same time. At first I said no to the seasonal position in fear of this very thing happening. They told me they really needed my help this season do to a driver shortage and that they will be posting a full time bid sheet in September. If this was my tire track, I can't explain why I did not realize they damage was made. I've been racking my brain trying to figure it out. I honestly did not feel anything that would have suggested something went wrong. I was told my sup called fed ex and they did not make a delivery since I did. I guess what I'm saying is I'm pretty convinced with the facts that I must have been the one to cause the damage, but I really was unaware of it at the time. Maybe thats due to my lack of experience or just the fact that I was paying so much attention to the spacing on the sides of the truck as I was pulling out. Whatever it was, I guess if I do get my PT job back I will have to wait another year to get another shot at driving and will have to watch other less seniority people snatch up the FT job in September that I've been working toward for 9 years. Thanks for all your information and help with this people. I appreciate it
Let me give you a quick run-down of my previous FT driving experience.
I was on Day 22 on-road and I curbed the vehicle outside of a Kinder-Care. The truck jumped just high enough to take down a tree -limb. It was around 3' long and maybe 2" diamater the deepest.
There was no damage to the vehicle, not even a scratch- which I was fairly surprised to see. But it was a large size tree limb to be knocking down.
I walked into the Kindergarten center and told the people in the office. They said "it's no big deal, absolutely fine, don't worry about it".
I could have just walked away, however I called it into the center just in case there were future ramifications.
They immediately took me offroad and told me I was an unsafe driver. My center manager said "this happened, however we don't know how many other things you have hit and not told us about". This really bothered me quite a bit, to hear my own management team did not have any trust in me, with no previous experiences or relations with.
THat should give you an idea of what you are up against. Every driver is in a cruel way critiqued and criticized and always at fault and responsible. You will never be good enough in their eyes and you will certainly be guilty until proven innocent.
Good luck and do not take it to heart!
