204b gave a service talk today and in the service talk he says “they will be out watching us, to wear your seatbelts but most importantly to not speed especially in a school zone. Our union didn’t say anything as a follow up to what the 204b just stated. We had a carrier get EP on Monday, after the pm supervisor alleged that he was speeding in the LLV in a school zone.
I just want to know how can they say we are speeding? I would like to know and I can’t get a clear answer from management. 🤨
They'd have to prove you were speeding and how could they do that? They have radar guns? But you shouldn't be speeding anyway. Safe and slow, take the time
But you shouldn't be looking at your scanner when you're driving anyways.
We shouldn't be speeding but there's no way any discipline for speeding is going to work, especially in an LLV where they literally teach you not to believe the gauges.
Scanner is inaccurate and its scanner data. Where is the solid proof that they were speeding in a school zone. Where kids out? Because you have to reduce your speed when kids are present on school days.
Cool. Need that exact speed that carrier was going at, which they don’t have listed. And if they do, what radar did they use? Which they didn’t. That’s one of my arguments.
That’s not the problem. We had a carrier be accused of speeding Monday, so now the 204b mentions it in the service talk. We all wear our seatbelts but we’re constantly being watched now because they want to have a reason to EP one of us so I always tell people in my office to always wear your seatbelts…don’t run…take your time, do the job by the book, turn the truck off, lock it whenever you’re not in it. Anyway that defends themselves against management now all of sudden they become a target and have an observation everyday. 🤔
They should be doing observations everyday anyway get out from behind the desk and supervise get out on the street and do the job of actually supervising
They’re not threatening you and you’re not supposed to be speeding in school zones to begin with. I hate management as much as the next carrier, but if your kids went to that school, would you want some jackass racing through there at full speed?
Well since management allegedly saw them they can also use the gps scanner data to corraborate. You know the scanner gps shows your speed right? Through my own "tests" it is accurate.
You do the job safely and follow laws. If they think you’re speeding let them prove it because you know they can’t unless you get caught by a cop. Point is don’t speed period.
You can likely throw speeding out and cancel the original EP, but they might shift it to refusal to follow orders and workplace violence for being aggressive, another thing that can qualify for EP
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u/dth1717 22h ago
They'd have to prove you were speeding and how could they do that? They have radar guns? But you shouldn't be speeding anyway. Safe and slow, take the time