We need something from the crystal palace in writing about backing into driveways, preferably BEFORE something happens to somebody and the sneaks find yet another reason to revoke your safety bonus or fire you.
I had an Estes driver tell me they are expressly forbidden from backing into any residential driveways. Then again I'm sure they have decent sales people that know how to find GOOD freight to haul, like the brake parts we lost to Central.
If any of you corporate posterior polishers are reading, and I'm sure you are, here's the problem that those of us that work for a living and make this company work face. Picture an 800 lb safe, (by the way, thank you again sales people) going to a very ritzy area. The driveway is about a 1/4 mile long, paved with blocks that may crack under the weight of a truck. You all know damn good and well that curbside delivery will not fly, and try rolling a pallet jack over pavers with anything let alone something so top heavy as a safe. More than like such people as that don't own pickup trucks, as if they'd be able to get an 800 lb safe out of it to begin with.
So, what do you do? All a dispatcher will say is "Do what you have to do and make it happen ". Replying with anything CYA related is usually met with accusations of insubordination and threats of termination. depending on how crooked your management team is.
Hello, corporate?!? We need clarification here, and not phony platitudes either. We want something we can use as a defense, either legally or at a peer review hearing.
I had an Estes driver tell me they are expressly forbidden from backing into any residential driveways. Then again I'm sure they have decent sales people that know how to find GOOD freight to haul, like the brake parts we lost to Central.
If any of you corporate posterior polishers are reading, and I'm sure you are, here's the problem that those of us that work for a living and make this company work face. Picture an 800 lb safe, (by the way, thank you again sales people) going to a very ritzy area. The driveway is about a 1/4 mile long, paved with blocks that may crack under the weight of a truck. You all know damn good and well that curbside delivery will not fly, and try rolling a pallet jack over pavers with anything let alone something so top heavy as a safe. More than like such people as that don't own pickup trucks, as if they'd be able to get an 800 lb safe out of it to begin with.
So, what do you do? All a dispatcher will say is "Do what you have to do and make it happen ". Replying with anything CYA related is usually met with accusations of insubordination and threats of termination. depending on how crooked your management team is.
Hello, corporate?!? We need clarification here, and not phony platitudes either. We want something we can use as a defense, either legally or at a peer review hearing.
