XPO | XPO/Conway driver was killed when he ran a set into the woods on I-55 in Copiah,MS

The driver was missing for several hours and the system last had him online right before midnight. Someone finally was able to track the last place he was online and police went out looking for him. It was several hours before he was found.
 
The driver was missing for several hours and the system last had him online right before midnight. Someone finally was able to track the last place he was online and police went out looking for him. It was several hours before he was found.
I would like to know more about how XPO keeps track of drivers ( for all kinds of reasons ) There are 2 or 3 GPSs in the trucks that I can think of. With this amount of tracking , why did it reportedly take so long to locate this unfortunate driver?

Hopefully some good comes out of this. Without getting too "big brother" , maybe more attention will be paid to whereabouts and arrival times of drivers to improve your chances in the event something life-threatening occurs.
 
I would like to know more about how XPO keeps track of drivers ( for all kinds of reasons ) There are 2 or 3 GPSs in the trucks that I can think of. With this amount of tracking , why did it reportedly take so long to locate this unfortunate driver?

Hopefully some good comes out of this. Without getting too "big brother" , maybe more attention will be paid to whereabouts and arrival times of drivers to improve your chances in the event something life-threatening occurs.
I ask the same question. One morning the FOS was saying that one of our LH guys was late. I said track him on the handheld the same way you tracks us in the city. The FOS said it doesn't work that way for them and said as of this time we have no way, locally, to track them so they called his cellphone. That's what I was told
 
There's a way to track through the vnomics site (city/linehaul)but sometimes there's a significant delay for the positions to be updated. Positions might be an hour or two behind. It's been a while since I've used the site, maybe it's improved since.
 
There's a way to track through the vnomics site (city/linehaul)but sometimes there's a significant delay for the positions to be updated. Positions might be an hour or two behind. It's been a while since I've used the site, maybe it's improved since.
A person can be tracked by a cell phone
 
I ask the same question. One morning the FOS was saying that one of our LH guys was late. I said track him on the handheld the same way you tracks us in the city. The FOS said it doesn't work that way for them and said as of this time we have no way, locally, to track them so they called his cellphone. That's what I was told
Correct.
 
I was told no "ping" as of after 11 the night before. On what I didn't ask. Maybe that's what it was the ping on the cell tower? Of where it was last used?
 
Yes you can, but there are steps they have to go through to do it. It's not as easy as TV make it out to be. I have friends that work at a 911 and know what a pain it is to do
The "CSI" effect. People believe things happen in real life like on TV.

I should have been more specific: What is the company policy? How long is too long? How late can a driver be before there's concern for the driver? How late before action is taken to locate the driver? I don't remember this being discussed before.

Most of us travel on interstate highways and well traveled roads to FACs. But there are vias to dead terminals on backwater roads at 2 in the morning. You can get lost. Breakdown. Wreck , or worse. I wonder what the official company policy is. Be careful drivers.
 
This is the ::shit:: I try to keep from the wife. We all freak out about winter and bad roads. But it could really be any day. When your number is up, you are heading out. I hope and pray he died quickly. Not stuck there pinned down out of reach of his phone.
 
The "CSI" effect. People believe things happen in real life like on TV.

I should have been more specific: What is the company policy? How long is too long? How late can a driver be before there's concern for the driver? How late before action is taken to locate the driver? I don't remember this being discussed before.

Most of us travel on interstate highways and well traveled roads to FACs. But there are vias to dead terminals on backwater roads at 2 in the morning. You can get lost. Breakdown. Wreck , or worse. I wonder what the official company policy is. Be careful drivers.
That info would be in the linehaul procedures manual. I don't have access to that. Good question though.
 
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