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Shoulder harness seat belts, seats and jump seats safety concern called in.
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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 749972" data-attributes="member: 14176"><p>You are correct about the school buses, I've always asked why they don't have seat belts.</p><p>This answer is the same as the package cars.</p><p>The cost to retrofit all of those vehicles.</p><p><strong><em><span style="color: black">It's always about money</span></em></strong>, nothing else.</p><p>I don't think I'll redirect my anger from one issue to another, I have plenty of contempt for them both.</p><p> </p><p>P.S. For all of you posters in denial, in regards to not ever hearing of somebody being hurt in your own little corner of the world due to the abscents of a 3 pt seat belt: Know that UPS will never share that info with anybody, so why would you know. 200 truck centers are big centers, but ask yourself what percentage is that when divided into 6 digits worth of package cars companywide? It's very small. Another aspect being overlooked is that the 3 pt belt also reduces the recoil from a sudden stop. So even if the windshield manages to give way, without breaking into a million pieces cutting and breaking your face and head into shreads, the recoil will send your head back with almost equal force into the stainless steel wall behind the seat. Now what's left of your head is facing concussion and additional fracture. Which brings us to the abscents of the highback seat. All of these modifications could be done for <span style="color: black"><strong><em>far less cost</em></strong></span> than is necessary to retrofit the same package car with telematics. Now ask yourself where this companies priorities are. To borrow a phrase from the company jargon, it's about <span style="color: black"><strong><em>avoidability</em></strong></span>. This is the <span style="color: black"><strong><em>hypocrisy</em></strong></span> that Sober and myself object to. We would much prefer to hear the truth. The company isn't concerned with making any modifications that do not show a monetary profit on some spread sheet and our safety programs are nothing more than smoke and mirrors and empty rhetoric designed to satisfy OSHA and our insurance interests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 749972, member: 14176"] You are correct about the school buses, I've always asked why they don't have seat belts. This answer is the same as the package cars. The cost to retrofit all of those vehicles. [B][I][COLOR=black]It's always about money[/COLOR][/I][/B], nothing else. I don't think I'll redirect my anger from one issue to another, I have plenty of contempt for them both. P.S. For all of you posters in denial, in regards to not ever hearing of somebody being hurt in your own little corner of the world due to the abscents of a 3 pt seat belt: Know that UPS will never share that info with anybody, so why would you know. 200 truck centers are big centers, but ask yourself what percentage is that when divided into 6 digits worth of package cars companywide? It's very small. Another aspect being overlooked is that the 3 pt belt also reduces the recoil from a sudden stop. So even if the windshield manages to give way, without breaking into a million pieces cutting and breaking your face and head into shreads, the recoil will send your head back with almost equal force into the stainless steel wall behind the seat. Now what's left of your head is facing concussion and additional fracture. Which brings us to the abscents of the highback seat. All of these modifications could be done for [COLOR=black][B][I]far less cost[/I][/B][/COLOR] than is necessary to retrofit the same package car with telematics. Now ask yourself where this companies priorities are. To borrow a phrase from the company jargon, it's about [COLOR=black][B][I]avoidability[/I][/B][/COLOR]. This is the [COLOR=black][B][I]hypocrisy[/I][/B][/COLOR] that Sober and myself object to. We would much prefer to hear the truth. The company isn't concerned with making any modifications that do not show a monetary profit on some spread sheet and our safety programs are nothing more than smoke and mirrors and empty rhetoric designed to satisfy OSHA and our insurance interests. [/QUOTE]
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