FedEx safety department is to blame in my opinion for a lot of what’s happening with drivers checking out and stopping themselves from going above and beyond.
when I started working here as a city driver I would do everything and anything to get the job done. Anything... go into a residential area with a van, break stuff down..you name it I did it.
of course one year I had 2 small incidents one of which I didn’t think was my fault. when the Volvo automatics started showing up around 3-4 years ago, you know that as your backing In to a dock they tend to do that thing where it just goes from not catching gear to just becoming a jet engine and you end up slamming into a dock. One day I’m backing into a place with those overhead doors with just enough clearance for a 13’6” and of course the truck does what I just described I hit the brake to stop myself from slamming into the dock but my trailer bounced a bit and it hit the roll up overhead door. When safety called me gave me a preventable. I asked him what could I have possibly done different and his reply to me was “just call dispatch and tell him you can’t do that delivery”
That was my wake up moment. Since that point where I was 1 incident away from a driver review/suspension I knew they could care less how hard I worked.
when I started working here as a city driver I would do everything and anything to get the job done. Anything... go into a residential area with a van, break stuff down..you name it I did it.
of course one year I had 2 small incidents one of which I didn’t think was my fault. when the Volvo automatics started showing up around 3-4 years ago, you know that as your backing In to a dock they tend to do that thing where it just goes from not catching gear to just becoming a jet engine and you end up slamming into a dock. One day I’m backing into a place with those overhead doors with just enough clearance for a 13’6” and of course the truck does what I just described I hit the brake to stop myself from slamming into the dock but my trailer bounced a bit and it hit the roll up overhead door. When safety called me gave me a preventable. I asked him what could I have possibly done different and his reply to me was “just call dispatch and tell him you can’t do that delivery”
That was my wake up moment. Since that point where I was 1 incident away from a driver review/suspension I knew they could care less how hard I worked.
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