About five yrs, and two center managers , ago I was backed into a parking spot in front of a pizza place. I had 12 boxes of door hangers (50 lbs each) and I'm humpin them out the back of the pkg. car. The delivery kid comes out, we exchange hellos, and he backs out and cuts the wheels to soon. He smacks my front quarter panel and cracks it. I call the center and the first thing my sup says is "Did you have your flashers on?" Because we all know the flashers throw up an impenetrable force field around your vehicle and repel little toyota pick up trucks! The police came, filed a report, and UPS agreed it wasn't my fault and it was unavoidable. But it took a while to reach that point. For two weeks after the accident it looked like it was going on my record. I filed a greviance insisting it couldn't be my fault if I wasn't in the vehicle. UPS agreed at a local hearing. If I had parked in a remote area of the lot and hauled the boxes 50 yards I would have been told "park close" I think corporate has an answer for everything.. even if the answers contradict each other.... don't run, but do 20 stops an hour.........and mgmt will pull out whichever little saying neccesary to place blame squarely on the driver. I know most drivers feel the same way. And if you're a driver who doesn't, just wait, it happens to all of us sooner or later. Leddy, don't sweat it either way, the outcome (whatever they decide) is unavoidable!
ent I thought it was going on my record as being my fault, because I should have parked somewhere else. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. It seems there is a corporate answer for everything, even if they contradict each other. Park close/ but don't park where you'll be hit. Don't run/ make 9.5 an 11 hr dispatch