Same, after leaving my last stressful job, i stopped caring about getting recognition. The culture of hard work being rewarded is dead. Now, the way to succeed is to be just good enough that you won't get fired but annoying enough that they promote you to get you out of their hair.
2 weeks later "Why are you still pretripping on the clock and how is your truck still idling." "Because I can." "Fix that or we'll fire you." "I can find a new job before the end of the day and you have 10 trucks out there empty already. Tell me again how you're going to fire me."
Because as a part of my job, pretripping is working so I get paid for any work I do that's why it's called a job, and idling is often required, just think some stoplights during rush hour take a whole lot longer than two minutes to get through, this company is asking for a lawsuit and if I was involved, they would get one
My company implemented a rule where our first 45 minutes of travel and last 45 are unpaid (we work in company vehicles which the company asks us to take home with us, our day starts and ends at clients not the office). Less than a month later, I had the privilege of being at our warehouse/office at the very moment when the FedEx guy handed out boss the envelope containing our unionization results -- whole process took 3 days, company never had a chance to bust it before it was over and done with. Have never been happier😂
Hmm, I wonder if the company vehicle insurance policy has a clause that states that employees driving company vehicles are only covered while clocked in. And if so, NO insurance company is going to want to do away with that clause because it's opening a HUGE can of worms that they know better then touching. And now that I think of it, I bet you they know most companies don't even bother fully reading the policy and put stuff in there that they KNOW companies do or don't do so they have reasons to get out of paying out. Probably something worth looking into.
I swear this guy must be sitting in on our meetings. We have the truck telematics that monitor everything and shut the truck off after three minutes with a camera that uses face detection to sense distracted driving. Works great when your constantly looking for addresses 😂😂 by the way mirrored safety glasses and anything sitting on the brake pedal will defeat those systems.🤙
We have the same monitor system in our ambulance. One guy got recorded for "distracted driving" while he was looking out for deer one night on a rural call. We also had a guy get in trouble for going 80 mph while running code. That system suck lol
They get this cause many drivers are lazy as hell, overpaid, wont lift a finger to help besides driving, gets paid to sleep etc etc. At least that have been my experience at several companies.
What does any of that have to do with the video? I'm a 27 yr old lead for a fabrication company so is my experience also similar to being... a truck driver?
@Mno's Life If you don't relate to the video in your line of work that's on you, you don't get to choose which fields of work are applicable. Quit trying to start shit in RU-vid comments and go to work lol.
As a manager for a remodeling company, I will always try to avoid being this manager. The guys on the ground are our bread and butter, so if we're cutting costs, it's not gonna be any of their perks
@@mnoslife5519 he just wanted to flex his age and title. couple more years he's gonna be the "I WORK TOO MUCH" idiot. probably on a shitload of cocaine too.
The biscuits are ON. POINT!! 😂 Worked in a lumber warehouse, it’s 6a.m. & the manager bought chic fil a biscuits for everybody… then he starts talking about the trucks idling for over 50 minutes every morning because the guys wanna “warm the trucks up” lmaoo
In the summertime 50 minutes is excessive, but in the winter it takes longer to get that oil warmed up enough that it flows easily. Not to mention to get the cab warm too.
I've been working a job that just switched us from salary to hourly. We have to work a mandatory one hour of overtime in order to make the pay we were making before. So now the first thing I do every morning when I get to work is make sure I'm primed to take a s***
"Um, nope. Please refer to DOT regulations regarding a pretrip being logged in the 'on duty not driving status' and then get back to me on how you're gonna legally not pay me for working."
Beat me to it. I'm a mechanic but I have to go out with the wrecker or the lowboy to get things a lot of times. If I have to log I put my working in the shop hours down as ODND.
I used to drive for a furniture company locally and this is spot on!! They made two DUMBASS rules: no A/C usage at all (where I live it’s hot damn near year around) and no more making left turns. They installed GPS “trackers” that would notify the supervisor if we used the A/C or made left turns (and other things). And of course the distribution center was all A/Ced and comfortable. Their break room was state of the art. Their machines were always brand new. I can go on and on. But ultimately the high paychecks just wasn’t worth it anymore. So I ended up quitting.
@@AndrewStrydomBRP their answer would be yes. Because they would say we’re idoling the trucks for too long to make a left turn. They really were a stupid company ran by morons.
@@scottmcmichael319 I totally did my last two weeks. After my deliveries were done they would pull me to the side for “discipline reasons”. They would ask why I ran the AC from 10:30 until 3:30 (my time I usually finished). I would just tell them because it was super hot and humid and I like working in comfort and that I already put in my two weeks and got a warehouse clerk job so I didn’t care. Needless to say I left on bad terms. Lol
Yes. And I think I work for that company. They loose exclet drivers, customers on a regular basis. But the cost of Diesel and idle time is why profit is down. Not sky rocketed insurance due to accidents from just shoving bodies in the set to get things done, or terrible customer service on there end.
New guy here I just can't get enough of your content. I wish I knew about it sooner but I will definitely be caught up at the rate I'm going. Love the mix 😂👍🇨🇦🔧
@@eliman47 i quit my job delivering beer 4 months ago. i'm friends with one of the warehouse managers and i got my sister's husband a job in the warehouse a while before i quit. both of them have told me they STILL havent gotten anyone to take that route lol. when i gave my notice, they had the swing driver ride with me. the day before my last, he gave his notice! they've had 3 or 4 more guys come and quit because of how bullshit that route is. stopped by one of the convenience stores i delivered to because they have all kinds of vintage candy and sodas. the owner recognized me and we started chatting. that store was every other week for me. he told me that he hasnt seen the same driver twice since i quit! they may fill the seat, doesnt mean it'll stay filled!
Any fellow drivers here who gotta tap the clutch brakes or gas pedal because of “company policy” damn that optimized idle….where I’m at now my truck runs as long as I’m in it
My company did that to me and I idled that truck on purpose they finally found a way to let me go but made it look like it was me so I couldn't get any unemployment they paid by the load which I found out was a real ripoff
I can't speak on drivers. I've worked in Warehouse work for 20 plus years. From my perspective night shift gets the absolute shaft when it comes to just about anything.
Need more truck driver vids and truck driver content. My dads been a truck driver his whole life and he laughed his ass off when he saw this. He feels the same way, drivers always be getting fucked! Love the content man! Keep up the funny vids, I myself am a electrician and love the electrician bits! Like the homeowner call, hilarious af, especially the vibrator skit 😂😂
Thats gonna be fun with the drywall hauling crane truck. CDL RULES. Pretrip/Post trip is 15 to 30 min On The Clock DOT requirement. Lunch is 30 min between the 6 and 8 hr of the day i do a 15 min mid trip load check after lunch to see if anything is wrong. 11 hr drive time, 14 hr max day. 60 hrs max week local, 70 long haul But too many 12 + hr days and you'll run out of time on Friday about lunch. With Saturday off for your 34 hr reset. Oh time and 1/2 after 8hrs daily preferred, after 40hrs a must.
The worst part is that if you voiced even half the concerns he does in the video you'd get a write up for ''cooperative difficulties.'' Incredible how bosses will implement rules that literally makes it impossible to work comfortably, and still blame the workers for being lazy and demanding..
I literately come into the yard on the days they don’t “have a load” to roll my truck 100 yards to the fuel pump so I don’t reset my clock like they expect me to do.
Never would do a pre trip off the clock. Even now, while company wants you at work, set up and ready to go in gear, so you can clock in 6 minutes early and go straight to work...unpaid for those 6 mins. I'm still walking in for when i clocked in and never at work station at that time. Not walking in 30mins early so i can be unpaid. 😜
Bro I swear you remind me of multiple different people I grew up with. Holy shit I hope you live long enough to actually develop your career. Seems like the funniest ppl never make it to old age. I mean obviously you will though as healthy a fella as you are. But for real man, if they'd give us more than 30 minutes at lunch id show all the guys I just started working with your videos. But it's basically a 29 minute frenzy and I'm not trying to go hungry on 12 hour shifts. But syit bo, keep this up, I could literally watch 97% of your videos over And over on repeat And still laugh my ass off never getting tired of it. And great job exposing the Illuminati ❤😊
I was JUST saying to myself that he sounded like my daddy used to when he was with us and driving for Marietta 🤣 I kinda laughed and got sentimental at the same time ( I did laugh hard 😂)
@@heatherdavis345 yea really, but since you had to tug on the heart stringz, one person I always say he reminds me of, one of my best buddies from growing up, he cleaned up finished college and started selling cars. Did great then relapsed one day after work and died while taking a shower . He literally had the personality to be sales men of the month in our town in Florida for a year and a half straight., Where I think he missed maybe one month. Just a very likable person with a great sense of humor and wits that couldn't be contested. And a natural 6th sense for what other ppl find hilarious, witht6 It was natural for him. Good ole Tonzey. If you never heard of moccasin creek from palatka fl, you should have a listen, but the lead singer was also a friend of his and to me reminds me of him. But yeah everything about our good ole buddy turn key construction brings back the best of memories of friends and love ones. Can't wait to see him tour or something. You can bet I'll have front row tickets to that!!!
My company has some of these rules. I actively ignore them. its a mark of pride to see my name at the top of the idle time list. my company and many other steal from drivers every single night. for instance we have a policy where we don't get paid for the first hour arriving at each stop for detention pay. They also want us to do online training every month for free.
@@davebigdogUnfortunately truckers are exempt from a lot of labor laws, hence the reason the first hour free at the shipper is legal. This is a reason a lot of people are looking to leave the industry including myself, the wages and working conditions are really bad at most trucking companies!
There would be a broken differential on that day. And a phone call to dot about driver coercion. Helluva a fine for the company, helluva lawsuit for the driver. We gone have a damn good day.
The "no idling' rule wouldn't work in Northern Quebec. Those trucks are never shut off ever in winter. It was determined that idling overnight was cheaper on fuel use (a diesel uses 10% of the fuel a gasoline vehicle would use while idling) than trying to start them cold the next morning.
@@literallyanangrymoose7717 The cabs of high-end semi-tractor trailers can contain entire living spaces, like a cabin on wheels, and run $250K or more. They are fully heated, air conditioned and stocked with food, sleeping area and entertainment.
@literallyanangrymoose7717 Here in europe, we have things called vepasto. It's a seperate diesel engine that warms up the cabin during nights so you can keep the truck engine shut down. During really cold nights you might have to keep the engine running the whole time for same reasons as op said. Too cold engine just won't start well or might not start at all. Vepasto is a thing in all cabovers in europe but in nordics it first heats water which in turn brings more warmth to cabin during freezing temperatures compared to air heating ones that rest of europe has. I live in nordics and have spent nights sleeping in cabover just fine during winters as a child traveling with father.
Have you guys never heard of espar heaters? They can be plumbed up to the coolant system of the truck to keep it at 100 degrees all night all while consuming 0.1 gallon per hour supposed to at least a gallon per hour of idling and engine wear.
Oh man all the cringe sensors all over my body are maxed out. I've been through way too many of these types of meetings. So incredibly glad I got out of the corporate world.
I remember back when I worked at FedEx as a warehouse worker they would have breakfast at the beginning of the end of the night shift workers shift (our shift) and the beginning of the drivers day shift, and they wouldn't let us warehouse workers have any because it's for "drivers only"
Anytime the boss man has his hand together like he’s praying it’s not trying to show sympathy. He’s praying he don’t get his ass whooped. I included the definition off “ass whooped” for those who may be confused. To beat or strike whoop ass (third-person singular simple present whoops ass, present participle whooping ass, simple past and past participle whooped ass) (idiomatic, slang, vulgar, US) To beat or strike. quotations ▼ (idiomatic, slang, vulgar, US) To defeat in a fight. quotations ▼
I don't know about that. I pull a long trailer, over twenty feet, and I have to back it up in hard to reach spots, and drive it everywhere. It takes a lot of learning and mental fortitude for sure, but not much intelligence is involved beyond the task at hand. I could probably pass the test on day one and I don't even have a B class
Company policy of requiring you to clock out in order to not pay for pre-trip (aka wage theft as it's a part of your duties) is something to get in writing so you can take that to the department of labor and dot on your way out of the company 😂
i drove ORT. everytime they would have a "driver appreciation day" grilling stakes for everyones lunch at the home terminal, all the drivers would be a thousand miles from home sleeping along side the road, shitting in a bag and peeing in a bottle. it always felt like i was locked out of my house looking threw the window watching someone else eating my lunch. THANKS BOSS YOU REALY KNOW HOW TO LET YOUR TRUE APRECIEATION BE KNOWN. ORGANIZE! they are not your friend.
It's weird that companies actually think people will put up with that like I have a CDL, This little card is like a golden ticket to any job I want like how can you forget that the most important thing in the truck that makes it go from point A to point B is the mfer with the funny "I can drive anything" card
We service gensets and aircompressors I was tiltet when one of my guys went 3 hour trip to do service he arrived said he forgot is tools took is lunch break instead of eating in car and came late and got overtime it just amazing
Hey I'm from up north east my company told us shut trucks off to sleep in WINTER they said get A BETTER SLEEPING BAG nooo joke....yet dispatch office temp st at 77 or higher
Not a truck driver but that is a perfect example of every white collar position acting like they care. And then they freak when people leave or screw shit up.
I had a dispatcher tell me I can't idle in the Texas heat in the dead of summer or I'll be written up..... I basically said sure go ahead write me up I bet the FMCSA would love to hear about this
I was working for a company that had all the local sears store's appliance delivery contracts and they installed gps trackers on all the trucks. Then they started enforcing all kinds of new rules to save money like the no idling and no A/C, etc.. Luckily I was in a managerial role at that point and rarely had to drive so it didn't effect me much but the others guy were pissed and several quit. I don't blame the company for wanting trackers though. There was a store almost 2 hours away they had the contract for and the 2 delivery guys there got caught taking the box truck out late at night on a booze cruise and the driver got arrested for dui when they crashed it. They were charged with stealing the truck and possession of cannabis too. The ash tray was full of joint roaches and there were little alcohol shooter bottles all over so they had been partying on their route for a while apparently.
Drivers, don't deal with this. Right now, at this moment you can throw a rock and hit a 6 figure job if your records are clean enough and you have a half decent resume.
I have three trucks and my bosses are about 10 states away from me so they installed monitor systems in the trucks. Five months later boss asks me if they ever set the cameras up in the trucks.
I literally wanna ask how many damn jobs have you had Bro. Its crazy you actually know how it is at so many. I'm an electrician, I'll say that's probably the only thing you're wrong about most of the time, also forklift certified 😅, but other than those trades you have a wealth of knowledge. .I look forward to them daily as a way not to wanna swing down to Hattie's 😂
My company tried to pull some shit like this, while at the same time saying they didn't want us hanging out in the warehouse/store room. Well where the fuck are we supposed to go? Just sit in the 100 degree heat? You can guess there wasn't a whole lot of compliance with that.
The whole don't clock in until you've done XYZ is epidemic across many many fields of work.. and is actually 100% illegal everywhere in the US, probably Canada and most of Europe. An example of why: Workers Comp claims. Say you get a nail in your foot or trip and get injured or something during the pre trip checks. The insurance company is likely going to ask if you were clocked in. If you aren't they can very well block the claim and probably will because insurance companies will do anything to find a loophole to not pay out. Any company that ask you to work without clocking in bring this up.. . if they still balk well, they are just asking for a massive lawsuit when an employee gets injured. Heck, you probably could even get the insurance company that refuses to pay the claim testify during the lawsuit!!! (Not to help you out of course, it would be to protect themselves.)
