....Last night my driver had a swap with an other van and after the swap the other driver called safety and report my van. Everything for a free dinner.....
At first I thought this was pretty funny, and it made me think of that old post where 'expediters were going hungry.. for real', and thinking that it must have come to the point where some must be prostituting themselves for a free meal.
After giving it some thought, and trying to view it from the carrier's perspective, I was thinking it's not such a horrible idea. Here they have alllllllllll these trucks on the road representing
their company, directly visible, and having face-to-face contact with
their customers all over the country on a daily basis. They can't be everywhere to keep tabs on how their contractors are representing their business and their name.
I'm sure they (and every other carrier) must hear horror stories after the fact, when it's too late to do anything about. I'm sure they have even lost customers here and there along the way as a result of one thing or another that their contractors are or are not doing.
It's pretty ingenious to come up with a package like 'squeal for a meal', which would only cost them what? Eight bucks per squeal? Maybe ten? From their perspective, what better use of that $8 could there be? They can't hold a training session, buy advertising, hire a roaming watchdog, or discount an upset customer's bill for that price.
Not to diss the OP, but look how fast it brought him to take care of something which he probably knew the carrier would have wanted him to have taken care of a couple of months ago, had they known. Carriers have standards, some higher than others, and if standards are agreed to when signing on, I guess they have every right to do whatever they need to do to ensure they're met.
Welcome to office politics out on the road, and beware of the hungry
