Re: How Do You Deal With *** Truckers?

Gashauler wrote:
"realitytrucker" <timp1232@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1149557128.490248.144090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gpsman wrote:
Zeke wrote:
"gpsman" <gpsman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Usually, I ignore 'em. Sometimes I vary my speed by 1-2 mph in 5-10
second intervals. Drives 'em nuts.

LOL, I'm going to try that next time. I also get the problem (especially in
california) where the driver will catch up quicky to you and then not pass
but tailgate.
That's the CA roadblock. The nutzoids feel they're accomplishing
*something* by driving so close together that 4-wheelers hesitate to
move between them. I see their point, I just disagree with the
technique.

I think the main problem is wages.
Don't forget to start paying drivers by the hour.
I've thought about that, ISTM that it would be too difficult to come up
with a standard and too many drivers would try to take advantage of the
system. ISTM that most drivers aren't all that smart, but not so
stupid they couldn't devise a half million ways to steal from their
employer using an hourly.
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- gpsman
Yep. But at least hourly pay might slow some of these clowns down.
They'd gladly drive the minimum speed limit to run up those hours. And
if companies paid hub miles you'd have some bozo in a Wal Mart parking
lot driving around in circles for hours to increase his mileage.


We're one of the few major oil companies that still get paid by the hour. And I can tell you I made more there than anywhere else. Not by cheating, because the company feels that's stealing and you'll get fired, but getting paid for every minute I was on duty. The company had some of the highest safety numbers in the industry and they demanded the best because they paid the best. They also knew how long each load should take. But I can see a problem with over the road and I do feel that those problems can be solved and should be. No one wants to work for free but plenty of you do.


That's the sad truth. With present technology, it could easily be
worked out. It'll never happen though. The drivers won't band
together and demand it; the ATA is making plenty of money with things
as they are, and what the ATA wants, the ATA gets.

Wait staff shouldn't be excluded from wage-hour laws either. I tip
fairly generously when I have the money in my pocket, but never less
than a buck. They don't just take and deliver food orders, most have to
clear tables, roll silverware in napkins, etc. for this time-intensive
work they receive what amounts to peanuts.

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