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Held accountable for telematics and 9.5 hour dispatches
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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3974405" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>As long as the most common accidents the company has are backing accidents, that message will appear on the screen at some point for a majority of drivers. I get annoyed with stuff like that too, thinking "Yeah it's necessary. It's not any safer for me to try and walk these 35 or 40 parcels weighing anywhere from 15 to 60 pounds apiece to the receiving dock while trying to account for ice, snow or cracks and potholes in the pavement." </p><p></p><p>The office doesn't know your route much less the current conditions on it. They only know the data that the reports compile for them and they go off that first. If they really think you individually are putting yourself "at-risk" unnecessarily, management will most likely be out there doing an observation. I remember once many years back having a motorist plow into the package car while it was parked in a parking lot 50 yards away from any other vehicle a day after a residential customer called and complained that I must have done donuts in their yard the day of a snowstorm. They lived at the top of a hill with a driveway that twisted and turned up it the length of well over a city block. My sup got stuck just attempting to drive up the driveway in his pickup truck that had 4 wheel drive. A day later, telematics proved what I already knew. The truck never made it anywhere near where the donuts were created.</p><p></p><p>But two "incidents" in the span of less than a week automatically trigger an alarm with regard to data, so I had a sup riding with me a day later to "follow up" and "observe". It's not like he had a choice in the matter and he was thankful that I understood that it wasn't anything personal. You take a lemon and try to make lemonade sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3974405, member: 4550"] As long as the most common accidents the company has are backing accidents, that message will appear on the screen at some point for a majority of drivers. I get annoyed with stuff like that too, thinking "Yeah it's necessary. It's not any safer for me to try and walk these 35 or 40 parcels weighing anywhere from 15 to 60 pounds apiece to the receiving dock while trying to account for ice, snow or cracks and potholes in the pavement." The office doesn't know your route much less the current conditions on it. They only know the data that the reports compile for them and they go off that first. If they really think you individually are putting yourself "at-risk" unnecessarily, management will most likely be out there doing an observation. I remember once many years back having a motorist plow into the package car while it was parked in a parking lot 50 yards away from any other vehicle a day after a residential customer called and complained that I must have done donuts in their yard the day of a snowstorm. They lived at the top of a hill with a driveway that twisted and turned up it the length of well over a city block. My sup got stuck just attempting to drive up the driveway in his pickup truck that had 4 wheel drive. A day later, telematics proved what I already knew. The truck never made it anywhere near where the donuts were created. But two "incidents" in the span of less than a week automatically trigger an alarm with regard to data, so I had a sup riding with me a day later to "follow up" and "observe". It's not like he had a choice in the matter and he was thankful that I understood that it wasn't anything personal. You take a lemon and try to make lemonade sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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