I would then have to say that if this directive came from "high up" their "follow-up" is very very poor. All you have to do is spend a few minutes on a yard to see who's doing the placarding. Safety relying on drivers to tattletell is ridiculous. If they want to get to the bottom of who's placarding, then they would in my opinion.
Are you saying that
The Safety Department Follow up is poor? and the drivers should not tattle?
HUM!!!
Just maybe this might explain why the terminals do just what "they"
want to do regardless of the company rules or Federal law.
Does local management report half truths to the safety department about drivers? have you seen drivers get terminated because of local management tatteling on drivers for every little thing?
OH!!! Things that happen to other drivers does not concern "YOU"
or affect "YOU"
If the terminals were forced to follow all the rules and laws, then just maybe drivers could defend them selves a little better.
Maybe if the drivers had the guts to stand up to the lies told by the terminal management, it would make it better for all concerned.
Remember some incident could happen involving you, then you would be glad that the terminals were folllowing the rules.
and all the lies would be exposed.
Do You really think Saia would fire an employee for complaining
that They did not follow thier own rules or the law. seems like they would be pretty stupid. don't you think?
Here is exactly what I am saying in case you didn't get it the first time... and no this not about ME...
If this was a company directive...I don't know this because I didn't see it...It is NOT being followed anywhere that I have been in the last month other than DLS and GRL. PERIOD. I run the system and I have been to several terminals. ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT SAFETY OR OTHER HIGHER UPS DON'T SEE THAT THIS IS THE CASE??? Can they be that blind? C'mon now...
My point is this, there are safety personel at some larger terminals that work at night, and you can bet that they see what is going on, or what is NOT going on in this case.
If this company, or any company changes a policy, or puts a new one in place, then it should be followed up to make sure it is implemented. That is not happening in this case, so I question whether it was a policy change. Like I stated above, I never saw anything in writing. Did you? If this company has that many terminals ignore a company directive,then we have a bigger problem.
Now then, if you or anyone else wants to report this safety, go ahead, no one is stopping you. As for ME, and I'm sure alot of others, I will continue to placard my trailers before I leave the yard.
One more thought on this...if the company wants the dock to placard the trailers, they should have sent this directive to the drivers, too. As a driver, if I had this, I would indeed be very vocal about it if it were not done.