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Scraping a driveway--does it deserve a warning letter?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 771894" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>All good points, however....</p><p> </p><p>1. "Rolling the package up the driveway" is not an appropriate delivery method for a furniture delivery in my opinion.</p><p>2. The customer was an elderly man.</p><p>3. Fellow Teamsters would not have been available for several hours at best, and the size of the package was such that working around it was simply impossible.</p><p> </p><p>Bear in mind that I had backed into this driveway before <em>without</em> contacting it, so I had no reason to think that it would be a problem on this occasion. The difference was that this time I had more weight in the back, and my tires were worn out instead of being new. These two factors can alter the geometry by half an inch or more, which is the difference between scraping and not scraping.</p><p> </p><p>I get that we are supposed to stay out of resi driveways. I wrote the trace for this area specifically to <em>eliminate</em> all backing. But the reality is that, sometimes, there is simply no reasonable alternative but to back.</p><p> </p><p>The company made a business decision to solicit oversized/overweight furniture volume from Pottery Barn. The company <em>also</em> made a business decision to equip this particular car with an inexpensive aftermarket RV hitch that bolts <em>underneath</em> the frame and severely limits the ground clearance rather than investing in one that mounts <em>between</em> the frame rails above the bumper. In addition, there are caster wheel kits for RV's with hitches that bolt to the bottom of the hitch or bumper and allow the vehicle to roll rather than drag when going up steep driveways. The company made a business decision <em>not</em> to invest in such kits when they mounted these hitches to the newer package cars.</p><p> </p><p>In my opinion, the combination of these three business decisions makes occasional ground clearance incidents all but <em>inevitable,</em> and the revenue that is generated and saved thru these decisions ought to be applied towards repairing the damages that occur as a result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 771894, member: 14668"] All good points, however.... 1. "Rolling the package up the driveway" is not an appropriate delivery method for a furniture delivery in my opinion. 2. The customer was an elderly man. 3. Fellow Teamsters would not have been available for several hours at best, and the size of the package was such that working around it was simply impossible. Bear in mind that I had backed into this driveway before [I]without[/I] contacting it, so I had no reason to think that it would be a problem on this occasion. The difference was that this time I had more weight in the back, and my tires were worn out instead of being new. These two factors can alter the geometry by half an inch or more, which is the difference between scraping and not scraping. I get that we are supposed to stay out of resi driveways. I wrote the trace for this area specifically to [I]eliminate[/I] all backing. But the reality is that, sometimes, there is simply no reasonable alternative but to back. The company made a business decision to solicit oversized/overweight furniture volume from Pottery Barn. The company [I]also[/I] made a business decision to equip this particular car with an inexpensive aftermarket RV hitch that bolts [I]underneath[/I] the frame and severely limits the ground clearance rather than investing in one that mounts [I]between[/I] the frame rails above the bumper. In addition, there are caster wheel kits for RV's with hitches that bolt to the bottom of the hitch or bumper and allow the vehicle to roll rather than drag when going up steep driveways. The company made a business decision [I]not[/I] to invest in such kits when they mounted these hitches to the newer package cars. In my opinion, the combination of these three business decisions makes occasional ground clearance incidents all but [I]inevitable,[/I] and the revenue that is generated and saved thru these decisions ought to be applied towards repairing the damages that occur as a result. [/QUOTE]
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