brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
For those who think telematics is nothing more than some numbers on a chart, let me tell you that it takes a year, for the company to transition into DISCIPLINE. First, they let you do your thing and say nothing about it.
Second, they talk to you about safety items, backing, doors open, selt belts, idling time, recording in travel.
Third, they build a RECORD of your performance on the route, then establish some perimeters for change. Then , they study the data as they place an IE person to evaluate your centers performance and then here comes the discipline.
They are not going to start out where the rest of us are. We were the first region to go online with Telematics and today, its a pure discipline tool. It took one year. Same in all our hubs. As each hub went online, it took a year for them to make the transition.
Spohr and production are the primary focus of telematics. The goal? To add 21 stops more per car per day. Increasing the stops per car eliminates cars from onroad. Micro managing every second in order to get that work done and writing you up if you fall remotely short of a spohr they feel is proper production. We have had terminations for spohr and production and those cases have had to go to arbitration.
So far, they have all been returned to duty, but the arbs ruling includes an agreement that a driver "CAN BE" held responsible for not making his "demonstrated Standard" spohr while unsupervised.
This is your future. You can yawn now, but youll be YELLING later.
Laugh now, but well laugh at you tomorrow.
Peace.
Yawn