TForce | Tractors Wearing Safety Vests?

I heard the Midwest terminals have been prone to being hit by "Others" aka "Not Our Fault". Because of this, they have initiated a "Defensive Parking" strategy of keeping your hazards and lights on while in a dock, so that other drivers can see us as they back up. However, we are still getting hit.
Now the drivers have to put safety vests on their mirror(s).

We need to see pictures! Minus the tractor/trailer numbers.

i've not heard of this, but it's not a bad idea.

Where do I apply to the department of stupid ideas? It seems to be the busiest most secure job in management...

Crumudgeon said:

Where do I apply to the department of stupid ideas? It seems to be the busiest most secure job in management...

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This “Defensive Parking Strategy” is not in service anymore. ‘COMMON SENSE’ prevailed.
The (non driver) arm chair quarterback CHSP member who invented this is gone. All this ended up doing was spooking drivers (management threatening write ups) the threats were serious, they were adamant about this strategy and force fed it hard and did much more observations.
This BS became time consuming and basically turned this local law against them.
Before you even backed in to dock that was WIDE open, you had to GOAL at every stop, talk to a member of the business to tell them you were about to back in, do the Chinese laundry walk around from front of tractor to passenger down trailer to back to unlock your trailer door back up the drivers side of trailer back into your truck and than proceed, if unsure and you got out, you had to do the laundry game again. This was at EVERY stop. Even if it was next door across street etc. Observations were being done on this too.

• Drivers no longer wanted to back into tight docks that they normally did to prevent others from hitting them. (unsafe)
• Drivers waited until multiple docks were clear before backing in.

• Customers would call and complain that we were just sitting outside not backing in.
• Write ups and grievances were rising.
• Local terminal was going through a huge amount of safety vests.
• Drivers would tape the vests to the mirrors, fender spot mirrors, regular mirrors etc. making the company look like clowns cars driving down roads.
• Batteries were going dead for leaving lights on getting trucks stuck in docks and needing shop or Mobil service to rescue driver.
• In the end....drivers would park away from others, lights on, flashers flashing, vests a hanging and they STILL got hit. Accidents in other tiers were increasing where they were low.
• Unnecessary safety ride alongs because others hit UPS Freight while the driver was in building. SAFETY CONES were initiated. Drivers asked for security guards to watch truck. Lol
• Drivers were no longer wanting to be drivers anymore. Massive amount of missed pick ups and production goals no longer met. The driver focus and mission was eroding.

I’m sure in the end it made drivers revisit their own driving skills and make them more conscious of their surroundings, if that was the whole point, it should have been in-house training and not a public experiment that created more customer resentment.