'Removed from Service' for waiting for pick ups.
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Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Everyone knows you send a message and let them figure it out. He didn't.
Sacrificial Lamb
Package Shepherd
Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
That he is
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
My rule is cya all the time.
El Correcto
god is dead
My rule is don’t make it easy for them.
Sitting on the clock for two hours is a good way to make it easy.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Didn’t go so well for the OP.
It is our job to operate in the best interests of our employer when we do not have direct instructions.
It’s article 37 1(a) for everyone in national.
oldngray
nowhere special
Rule #1 = cover your own ass.
some1else
Banned
It’s their company they can run it how they want to. If they want to dispatch a driver with downtime that’s up to them, and it’s not a big deal most people have downtime at their jobs. You are stealing time by doing the dispatchers work during your day focus on your own job.
some1else
Banned
Waiting for a pickup is working.
34yearpackagehumper
Well-Known Member
Short and sweet "CYA" They will use any excuse to fire you. The only time I ever set beside the road that long is on a breakdown. I was the senior PC Driver in my center at the time and my run was certainly what we called a "country run". Took about that long to get another PC to me. The wrecker driver helped me reload the new PC and I was on my way. I got in about 9pm that night. High paid day, delivering in the dark is no fun .
You’re free to dislike the contract, but it doesn’t make you right. Lol.
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Worst time of year was when the clocks got turned back as a cover driver. Delivering in the dark was no fun, delivering in the dark when you had no clue what number the house was , was a nightmare. Not a better day than when I got my first bid route. Knew every house number like the back of my hand. Dark at 4:30 depressing but who cares. Knew where I was going.
johnnybgood
Well-Known Member
Well, he still had work to do but was waiting for the work that needed to be done to be available to do. Unless he was told what to do in that situation once before he could wiggle out of this ok. If he had delivery stops it would be a slam dunk for the company. Without delivery stops available it makes it more easy to just say you were not told you had to message in, either that day or in a previous instruction.
johnnybgood
Well-Known Member
Could have, but was he told to ?
If you work for this place long enough you understand what they're thinking is
It was a matter of 5 or 10 minutes no big deal the customer wasn't ready
But this place has reports on top of reports on top of reports for everything
If you think you need to sit there for 2 hours and not do anything then I can't help you
johnnybgood
Well-Known Member
He did, he did his pickup. He can't tell the pickup people that he needs the pickup now or he'll get in trouble. If he had no work to do that would be thing. I think what it will come down to is that he wasn't instructed to do message in after completing delivery stops but prior to doing the pickup stops. I think he will be warned and instructed to do so and will wind up being fine in the end. This assumes he had 0 delivery stops at that point and only pickup stops.
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