Originally Posted by phantom 309

Sad state of affairs, man works hard with his two hands and driving skill,. makes a simple mistake on his over regulated rule book,.and gets fined $250.00 more than he made working hard for the whole day,.
Name me one other profession that fines its workers for making a mistake on their paperwork,.i sure would love to be able check the paperwork of the desk jockeys and then fine them $250.00 for every mistake,(of course dispatchers never make mistakes). oh and thats after they do a real days work out in the cold chaining down etc,.
I'd love to be able to follow around a dot, or a cop, and at the end of the day check their paperwork and procedures and then fine them $250.00 for every mistake,and then keep it on their performance record for 5 yrs,. see how they felt about going home to their family and telling them "well i made amistake on my paperwork today, and it cost me money to go to work, even tho i did it on schedule and safely and the company still made money"


Meh,. desk jockeys,. if it wasn't for fines who,d need them?? I never met a desk jockey i could call and ask how to chain up a set of drives,. or where to place some odd ball looking piece of equipment on my trailer to get the axle weights right,. but they sure are quick to bitch about simple paperwork mistakes which the overbearing government has forced down the trucking industrys' throat with not 1 complaint from any desk jockey beacause paperwork mistakes justifies their salary.

Keep fining drivers and making their cvors' unacceptable, and you can keep pulling them right out of driving school to do your lackey work, and when you finally realise that there really isn't a driver shortage there is just a lack of participation by qualified individuals, then there won't be the need for so many desk jockeys.


meh.
Nick
bah,. humbug.