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Originally Posted by kc0iv
Dawn my point is people break the rules everyday and most of the time nothing happens. In some cases things do go wrong and they get caught. Thankfully in most cases it is nothing more than a fine and in a very few cases people get hurt or killed. In this case 5 people lost their lives.
Every driver I have known have driven illegal. Pushed the pencil to meet a tight schedule. I feel quite sure every driver that drives for your company has do the same at one time or another. Why do you think the D.O.T. call a logbook a comic book? They know driver push the pencil to make it read what D.O.T. and the company will accept.
You think you know what is going on but you really don't have a clue. You set behind your little desk -- scan in log sheets -- and tell drivers when they make a mistake. How many times have you went over to dispatch and followed the complete run of one of these "mistakes" and found that little mistake was cause because the driver was given a delivery schedule that was just to tight to meet? Sure the right thing to do would have been for the driver to refuse the delivery. But we all know the customer comes first. A few late deliveries and the driver is looking for a new job. Yet you come in here a preaching don't drive illegal. Why don't you take a month and ride with a driver and find out what the real world is like. I know one major truck-line were the CEO take a couple of week off every year (unknown to the customers and the people in dispatch) and finds out what really going on. He consistently finds the deliveries can not be made in the schedule times.
If you had been around before the Just-In-Time freight came into being drivers had time to make deliveries. Now everyone wants it deliver NOW. You want to stop illegal logging convince your company to pay drivers by the hour. No more pay by the mile. And while you are at it if you can't convince them to pay by the hour then at least pay the driver hub miles. Find out just how many miles a driver really drives.
Yes Dawn I and many others are tired of preaching -- Log legal -- Drive legal. As the old saying goes -- don't complain until you have walked in someone else's moccasin.
kc0iv
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I am not wasting my time on the sarcasim! I don't scan logs, sorry the drivers scan them for me :lol:
I do know what drivers go through and I don't need to drive a truck to understand! I know my drivers (and yes Rev and anyone else the drivers that work for my company are "my drivers", ask Dan Baker what I should feel, He would say I am a great hearted person for calling drivers "my drivers") and I stand up for them when needed! So if the driver would only call the log department and ask for help or let us know what is going on , WE CAN HELP! At least I practice that in my department :wink:
I will continue to preach logging legal until the day I DIE! Why to get it through to drivers why you should not! If you choose to run illegal I really do not care, not my problem unless you work for my company!
I am here for the new drivers who are not being taught what can happen to them! I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD WAS FOR?????????????????
If you run legal, log legal you will stay out of any bad situation that may come your way if in an accident (unless of course you are drinking, doing drugs etc).
18-19 years in this buisness I think I have a clue, and maybe you don't! :roll:
If it hasn't happen to you, GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope it doesn't happen to you, but if it does you should only respect everyone on the board and let them know how stubborn those of you who chose to run illegal and bad happened to you due to it!