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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 461011" data-attributes="member: 14596">Thanks to this supervisors several days of rides, drivers in the center will have gotten the message that laying down on the job can and will lead to being out of a job.&nbsp; Let say only 5% of the drivers in the center were coasting, in 50 car center that is only 2 drivers.&nbsp; So say they step up a bit and we gain back just 2 hours a week in increased production.&nbsp; That gets the company back over $6000 dollars to the bottom line over the course of the year.&nbsp; That does not even count any gain from other drivers in the center, nor any in other centers that might hear this story and be made aware that drivers can indeed be fired for production.Not really a bad investment for 3 or so days.As to safety, every year, and every time there is an incident.&nbsp; It has to be done and on the books, or the company opens itself to massive lawsuits were a lawyer to show the company has as lackadaisical attitude about safety as you suggest.&nbsp; You say the sups should be fixing trace.&nbsp; How, exactly, do you propose that supervisor fix a routes trace, if he does not spend any time out on the route?&nbsp; We have people studying volume trends and supply that information to the center teams.&nbsp; To get volume trends the on road really needs to do little more than a few mouse clicks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 461011, member: 14596"] Thanks to this supervisors several days of rides, drivers in the center will have gotten the message that laying down on the job can and will lead to being out of a job. Let say only 5% of the drivers in the center were coasting, in 50 car center that is only 2 drivers. So say they step up a bit and we gain back just 2 hours a week in increased production. That gets the company back over $6000 dollars to the bottom line over the course of the year. That does not even count any gain from other drivers in the center, nor any in other centers that might hear this story and be made aware that drivers can indeed be fired for production. Not really a bad investment for 3 or so days. As to safety, every year, and every time there is an incident. It has to be done and on the books, or the company opens itself to massive lawsuits were a lawyer to show the company has as lackadaisical attitude about safety as you suggest. You say the sups should be fixing trace. How, exactly, do you propose that supervisor fix a routes trace, if he does not spend any time out on the route? We have people studying volume trends and supply that information to the center teams. To get volume trends the on road really needs to do little more than a few mouse clicks. [/QUOTE]

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