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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 495723" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Anyone who sits in one of the old P-5/P-8/P-10's with manual steering and lap belts can, while buckled with the lap belt, lean their upper body forward and rest their forehead on the windshield and their chin on the steering wheel. It is gruesome to comprehend what your head and face would look like if you did that at high speed.</p><p> </p><p>UPS was aware of this fact when they designed the vehicle, ordered the vehicle, and intentionally deleted a $40 option that would save the drivers life.</p><p> </p><p>I am well aware that I am probably percieved by many as an obsessed fanatic on this issue, and that all I am doing is tilting at windmills. And for the record, the vehicle I have at this moment does in fact have a 3 pt belt, although that could change at any time at the sole discretion of the company.</p><p> </p><p>The reason I harp on it so much is that I resent dishonesty and hypocracy. I can accept the fact that UPS doesnt care about my safety, but not when it expends a ridiculous amoount of time and energy trying to convince me that it does.</p><p> </p><p>The only the worse than doing nothing about a problem...is to do nothing while pretending to do something. Which pretty much sums up the entire safety program at UPS.</p><p> </p><p>I find UPS's safety program...with its committees and commentaries and acronyms...to be eerily reminiscent of when I was in 2nd grade and they were trying to teach us to wash our hands after going potty. We had the same kinds of posters and rhymes and word games to play. It worked well....for a bunch of 2nd graders. But I'm not a 2nd grader any more and I'm beginning to resent being talked to like one. It is demeaning.</p><p> </p><p>Another analogy is that UPS is like the guy who abuses and beats the crap out of his wife for 6 nights a week, and then brings her flowers and tells her he loves her on the night he wants to get laid. The true measure of his feelings is demonstrated by the abuse, not by the empty words and flowers.</p><p> </p><p>If UPS truly wants its people to be safe it will shut up, put its money where its mouth is, and make sure they ALL have safe equipment to drive. A guy who is getting the crap beat out of him by an unsafe, ergonomically deficient vehicle doesnt relly care that "All Good Kids Love Milk."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 495723, member: 14668"] Anyone who sits in one of the old P-5/P-8/P-10's with manual steering and lap belts can, while buckled with the lap belt, lean their upper body forward and rest their forehead on the windshield and their chin on the steering wheel. It is gruesome to comprehend what your head and face would look like if you did that at high speed. UPS was aware of this fact when they designed the vehicle, ordered the vehicle, and intentionally deleted a $40 option that would save the drivers life. I am well aware that I am probably percieved by many as an obsessed fanatic on this issue, and that all I am doing is tilting at windmills. And for the record, the vehicle I have at this moment does in fact have a 3 pt belt, although that could change at any time at the sole discretion of the company. The reason I harp on it so much is that I resent dishonesty and hypocracy. I can accept the fact that UPS doesnt care about my safety, but not when it expends a ridiculous amoount of time and energy trying to convince me that it does. The only the worse than doing nothing about a problem...is to do nothing while pretending to do something. Which pretty much sums up the entire safety program at UPS. I find UPS's safety program...with its committees and commentaries and acronyms...to be eerily reminiscent of when I was in 2nd grade and they were trying to teach us to wash our hands after going potty. We had the same kinds of posters and rhymes and word games to play. It worked well....for a bunch of 2nd graders. But I'm not a 2nd grader any more and I'm beginning to resent being talked to like one. It is demeaning. Another analogy is that UPS is like the guy who abuses and beats the crap out of his wife for 6 nights a week, and then brings her flowers and tells her he loves her on the night he wants to get laid. The true measure of his feelings is demonstrated by the abuse, not by the empty words and flowers. If UPS truly wants its people to be safe it will shut up, put its money where its mouth is, and make sure they ALL have safe equipment to drive. A guy who is getting the crap beat out of him by an unsafe, ergonomically deficient vehicle doesnt relly care that "All Good Kids Love Milk." [/QUOTE]
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