Lame ass false bravado...

[Randimus Maximus]

I assume you were documenting when you made the calls to each driver as a CYA.

[ZLTFUL]

Oh yeah. Plus our phone system logs all of the calls as well. My A is C'd.

[Randimus Maximus]

My A is C'd.

Yes, Depends tends to handle that rather well.

[Jarvicious]

I have seen it happen too much before and it wasn't like I volunteered for this. HR and one of the owners told me that I would be doing this. I could give a make the beast with two backs less if some shit for brains driver ends up dying in a fiery crash because he chose not to listen to the warnings about the drifting snow (side note, the drift on my deck is up to 6.5 feet).

I could definitely see that if we had box trucks, but our company is supplied with 09 Caravans or big Ford Econolines.  Makes a difference.....

[DanTheMan]

Did they all make it back?

[ZLTFUL]

2 drivers ended up stuck in rural areas. 1 was taken in by a local bar owner and 1 holed up in a hotel. 4 of them that got back late Tuesday were stuck at the office until late yesterday.

The owners tried to send out 4 trucks yesterday and after having 3 of the 4 stuck by the time they reached the end of our block, decided to cancel routes for the day.

The HR director called her half of the call tree and informed them that they should use their discretion in coming in yesterday and that the day had not been "officially" called a snow day. She even told our graphics department that this would be a good opportunity for them to come in and get caught up.

The Ops Manager called his half of the call tree and told them that they were calling it and that unless you ABSOLUTELY had to be here, not to come in and that the day was a paid emergency day off.

This morning, HR has had a steady stream of people flooding her office going WTF?

[swampduc]

Is the HR director the same person you had problems with in the past?

[ZLTFUL]

Yeah.

Of course, the IT manager manges to piss me off pretty regularly as well. Double standards and all that.

One of the things that was a glaring standout in our employee surveys we did a few months ago..."Policy and Procedure changes are too frequent and often don't fit as a solution to the problem that is trying to be fixed."

Of the 119 people that completed the survery, 101 either agreed or strongly agreed with the above statement.

[Privateer]

I used to be a school bus driver and although I never had to turn around due to snow, I was friends with a senior driver (20+ years) that thought they could handle it when the weather turned south.

Coming down from one of the mountain camps after dropping her kids, empty bus, she lost it in a curve (black ice we think), ass end of the bus swung out and the only thing that kept her from going down the side was the 6ft diameter pine tree that destroyed the back end body panels.

Doesn't matter how experienced you are or if you think you can 'handle it.'

[wbeck257]

*shrugs* I still would of stayed out..

But then again, where I work, when you are telling your drivers to come on home, we are one our way out into it...
And we drive bigger things than a box truck full of beer...

[ZLTFUL]

Actually, we have 1 box truck and it's used for special events.
Everything else is tractor/trailer and most of them are 53ft reefers. The only routes we run that still use side loaders are bar routes. All of our convenience store routes rural routes and grocery routes run end loaders.

I drove a truck for a construction company (box trucks, roll off trucks, tractor/trailers in fact still have my CDL lol) for several years and I know that driving a truck in snow and ice with 30,000 lbs of beer in it is alot easier than driving the same truck empty.