Get paid to parkWhat is it you think that policy is?
These guys offered me a job the other day.
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Shreck
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Yep
Electric Chicken
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Well heck I'll park for a living then.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
That's what I do.
I park trailers all day long.
They call me a shunter but I would like to get that title changed to truck valet.
That's what "The Walmart" drivers do.
At the last place I worked, Trimac, they told us, "You are the captain of the ship, you make the call if the roads and weather are bad, don't go."
A blatant attempt to avoid legal culpability in the event of a crash. So not long ago a guy I know took off, found out through the grapevine and the 511 road conditions app on his phone that the roads in Wyoming were crap so he turned around and came back. Where he immediately caught hell for coming back (they had also been told it would be the end of their job if they slid off the road and had to be towed out by a wrecker).
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
A blatant attempt to avoid legal culpability in the event of a crash. So not long ago a guy I know took off, found out through the grapevine and the 511 road conditions app on his phone that the roads in Wyoming were crap so he turned around and came back. Where he immediately caught hell for coming back (they had also been told it would be the end of their job if they slid off the road and had to be towed out by a wrecker).
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Electric Chicken
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Yeah I haven't encountered that same problem, but being local it was just a matter of calling off and not going out in the first place.
If he had a sleeper, they probably expected him to park it not come back. They don't like burning that much fuel.
A coworker at Pumpkin slid off the road, the container popped off the chassis, and it hit the driver side cockpit of an oncoming JB Hunt. Killed the guy. This was a guy I actually knew, talked to, and was work friends with, on a route I used to do all the time.
I get more and more risk averse when it comes to this stuff and these nuclear verdicts make carriers do the same.
Sinister
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That whole "Captain of the ship" line must be part of some program a lot of companies buy into. They tell us that here. I also heard it at QC.
Its too common for all these safety people to come up with the same line.
And we at walmart don't get paid to park all that much. But it is nice to work for a place that compensates your time in the truck instead of donating all sorts of wasted life and "welp. That's just PART OF YOUR JOB."
That propaganda has allowed companies to push drivers into all sorts of shitty situations for low wages. Or free.
Think, people.
Most of them use the same few companies for safety training resources. Which means crappy ideas propagate throughout the industry.
And too many forget that much of what safety pushes on them is about reducing liability, not increasing safety.
He only made it 30 miles or so before turning around. He really didn't have any good options for a place to park. Just an abandoned rest area with no amenities and that was only maybe 15 miles or less from the terminal. He would have let the truck run for at least 24 hours with no food or restroom facilities. He made the right call coming home no matter what the jackass branch manager thought. His ass was at home not stuck in a truck alongside the road.
Electric Chicken
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With those details, agreed.
Duck
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That's what safety means to them.
They don't actually give a rat's ass about people getting hurt. Just lawsuits.
mndriver
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Hillbilly Canuck
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I figured they took new people when I saw one of their trucks nearly take my hood and a different one rip off another guy's mirror at the same truck stop in the same day.
Duck
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These are the kind of drivers that automatic transmissions enabled the hiring of.
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