ebsprintin
Veteran Expediter
Excerpt from latest message from the company--"The first Q&A session will be recorded on February 18, 2008 and will be available on the owner and driver web so you can listen at our convenience." Fine, I'm sure they meant to say "your". And I'm not going to make this a direct Panther bash. It's more about business in the modern world of cyber. We are repeatedly told that what counts is printed in our contract. I sign it, so I can live with that. I also live by written instructions. What I see now is this proliferation of ether-regulations. It took me over seven months before I could get a description of the company's policy for cargo van hours of service. And I still don't know how accurate it is because it was an individuals transcription over the qc. The safety rep (I think) said the "policy" was published several months ago on the drivers web. I went back through the archive and didn't find it. This is just like this new "Panther Q&A". Shouldn't something that is important enough for a policy statement be written down? I don't think my contract reflects all the policy changes that come over my qc. I'm sure someone will say that written correspondence is expensive to mail. Then so are the company recruiter mailings that I still get even though I've worked for the company for eight months. Seems to me that if the company needs to address a safety issue or change to policy then it should be worth writing it down. If this is the way of the future, what is and isn't going to hold up in a court of law?
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