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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 684619" data-attributes="member: 14668">The &quot;quota mentality&quot; is rearing its ugly head here.&nbsp;Management has been instructed to reduce backing by x percent. So this is what the goal is.&nbsp;Its not about safety...its about reducing a number that is printed out on a report.&nbsp;Backing was the flavor of the week when we first implemented Telematics last year. We did get some useful information, and I think we wre successful in reducing the number of backs. Once it stopped being the flavor of the week, however, we stopped worrying about it and found some other statistic to focus on.&nbsp;I am all for making reductions when possible, but the reality is that backing will always be necessary and to instruct us to &quot;call in&quot; before backing, or to reduce backs by some arbitrary number, is nothing more than standard UPS corporate micromanagement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 684619, member: 14668"] The "quota mentality" is rearing its ugly head here. Management has been instructed to reduce backing by [I]x [/I]percent. So this is what the goal is. Its not about safety...its about reducing a number that is printed out on a report. Backing was the flavor of the week when we first implemented Telematics last year. We did get some useful information, and I think we wre successful in reducing the number of backs. Once it stopped being the flavor of the week, however, we stopped worrying about it and found some other statistic to focus on. I am all for making reductions when possible, but the reality is that backing will always be necessary and to instruct us to "call in" before backing, or to reduce backs by some arbitrary number, is nothing more than standard UPS corporate micromanagement. [/QUOTE]

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