XPO | New Saftey Policy August 1st

Will it lead to more terminations ?
This is really simple. Turnover just isn't high enough. So they are going to make it easier to fire people. And claim it safety consciousness. I don't know how there are terminals laying off. We cannot keep drivers. At all. As fast as we are losing customers. We are losing drivers even faster. But clearly. The system is just to damn driver heavy. So they are going to clean it out and get rid of more of us drivers. The computer model says you can make more money this way. More management and fewer drivers. This is going to be the number trucking company. Tony Brooks said so !!!!
Every rule/policy that has been put in place here as been in response to some action. Like truck clocked at 90mph. This company like other trucking companies pay out 100 of millions of dollars every year in lawsuit. Any 1yr lawyer will win any case in which a truck driver is going 10+mph over the speed limit. We are suppose to be professional drivers and doing our jobs professional. I know for some of you it hard to do but some do it every day.
In my time here I seen many driver leave or be shown the door. I have seen more drivers fired because of there own stupidity like. Going into yard mode on the EOBR to drive back so they didn't have to take a break. Removing placards so they didn't have to take a hazmat bypass route. Getting drunk at work. Burning a **** test. Those are all that come to mind now. Right now we as driver do more to fire ourselves.
 
Hell

Hell , we had a linehaul guy get 9 in one night ! Never missed a day ! Just got a talking , yes I said 9 !!!
we have one the bi**h out a storm at the meeting. Said stuff like it unfair and he was guaranteed to lose his job. Then on Sat morning he passed me doing 70mph in a 55mph.
well that's one way to move up on the list. Seen moved let go by there dumb action at this place. Some should be fired just because they are dumb
 
Posts look like xpo removed the brake pedal
I do not understand all this whining. They put the the parameters out there that we as drivers must adhere to. They gave us fair warning that a certain number of strikes for over speeding, 3 or 5, whatever the number is will end in termination. We are supposed to be professional drivers. You know where the break is. You know how to take your foot off of the gas pedal. You know how to use a jake brake. If you get 5 over speeding violations maybe you're just too damn dumb to drive. This isn't rocket science folks. It's truck driving 101. Don't speed.
 
I heard the company is dropping the new speeding policy. Way too much union talk going on in the last couple weeks they didn’t want to push guys to it. Funny how that works. You guys can have a say. Just the threat changes your situation for the better.
 
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I heard the company is dropping the new speeding policy. Way too much union talk going on in the last couple weeks they didn’t want to push guys to it. Funny how that works. You guys can have a say. Just the threat changes your situation for the better.

It's interesting you blame this on union talk. But admit that this seemed an intentional temporary or momentary fix.

Regardless. If they honestly give a damn about safety at all. They need to fix these mutha trucking tires !!!!!

All it takes is light rain and I might as well pull off to the side of the road and consider the conditions impassable.
 
It's interesting you blame this on union talk. But admit that this seemed an intentional temporary or momentary fix.

Regardless. If they honestly give a damn about safety at all. They need to fix these mutha trucking tires !!!!!

All it takes is light rain and I might as well pull off to the side of the road and consider the conditions impassable.
Is it the composition of the tires? The tread pattern? A combination of the two? Or some other factor?
 
Is it the composition of the tires? The tread pattern? A combination of the two? Or some other factor?
I had a great talk with our tire vendor. He comes twice a week to do tire checks. He said the closed shoulder tires are very hard and have a low rolling resistance, so they get better fuel economy. He then said they are the worst possible choice for single axle applications. We have been replacing them with an open shoulder aggressive lugged tire. The difference is night and day.
 
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Bye bye speeding policy
 
Is it the composition of the tires? The tread pattern? A combination of the two? Or some other factor?

It’s the incompetence of the people making decisions. The complete inability to comprehend that all these accidents and injuries are the direct results of the horrific work environment that they “ provide “ us to work in.

Just like the two piece dolly. The 70 mph truck. The e-deck system falling to pieces. All these damages everywhere. So many lost shipments. They implement the policies that govern our work. They choose the equipment. And they chose how it’s all maintained and if it’s maintained.

There ain’t anyone left here at the terminal level that gives a flip. Just trying to survive and collect that check.

From Tom to senior drivers. Everyone with 20+ years in this company has bailed or is on a countdown until their last day.

All XPO has is poor decisions, disappointed customers and employees with one foot out the door.
 
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It's interesting you blame this on union talk. But admit that this seemed an intentional temporary or momentary fix.

Regardless. If they honestly give a damn about safety at all. They need to fix these mutha trucking tires !!!!!

All it takes is light rain and I might as well pull off to the side of the road and consider the conditions impassable.
Well go to the left coast and thank California for that one on the tires
 
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