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On-Time Departures in Feeder. Don't Watch The Clock
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<blockquote data-quote="quad decade guy" data-source="post: 4260668" data-attributes="member: 77939"><p>There is way more to this story. We had a trailer catch on fire on a dock door...due to the lights</p><p></p><p>being on(while being pre-tripped). It caught all the crap(paper, wood etc) piled up on fire. So, by </p><p></p><p>District policy-no more lights on at the dock. Nobody follows this policy but it's there, until the next </p><p></p><p>fire. Like so many here, I never really know much more about my schedule than start time. I </p><p></p><p>do my pre-trip as quickly and thoroughly as practical. Thoroughly. Safely. As we all know, skip </p><p></p><p>an item(error or deliberately) and it can and will bite you. And be held against you. DOT or UPS.</p><p></p><p>I see people running to make leave times. Really? Why? I see people encouraging drivers to skip</p><p></p><p>steps, do illegal things, do unsafe things(even though they've never done the job) to get off property!</p><p></p><p>Conversations go like this: "What is your leave time?" "I don't know" "Ok, it's 10pm" "Ok".</p><p></p><p>"Why haven't you left?" "They won't let me leave" To Sup:"He has to leave now" Sup:"We</p><p></p><p>aren't finished" Repeat. </p><p></p><p>Most drivers I know, work as efficiently as possible, holdovers from pkg. But, there are many, many</p><p></p><p>components to being a feeder driver as in pkg. Intangibles. Errors, incompetence, mistakes</p><p></p><p>whatever. Equipment, a huge variable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad decade guy, post: 4260668, member: 77939"] There is way more to this story. We had a trailer catch on fire on a dock door...due to the lights being on(while being pre-tripped). It caught all the crap(paper, wood etc) piled up on fire. So, by District policy-no more lights on at the dock. Nobody follows this policy but it's there, until the next fire. Like so many here, I never really know much more about my schedule than start time. I do my pre-trip as quickly and thoroughly as practical. Thoroughly. Safely. As we all know, skip an item(error or deliberately) and it can and will bite you. And be held against you. DOT or UPS. I see people running to make leave times. Really? Why? I see people encouraging drivers to skip steps, do illegal things, do unsafe things(even though they've never done the job) to get off property! Conversations go like this: "What is your leave time?" "I don't know" "Ok, it's 10pm" "Ok". "Why haven't you left?" "They won't let me leave" To Sup:"He has to leave now" Sup:"We aren't finished" Repeat. Most drivers I know, work as efficiently as possible, holdovers from pkg. But, there are many, many components to being a feeder driver as in pkg. Intangibles. Errors, incompetence, mistakes whatever. Equipment, a huge variable. [/QUOTE]
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