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Sunday 18 November 2012

How safe are Britain's roads? update

Anonymous wrote about desperation, continuing the same quote that I heard, with exactly the same phrases on desperation, it continued with "Economic corruption a the top."

I have been told to get over it. Why? Because it happen some time ago? To stop exposing UPS Managers for the fraudsters that they are?

Jimmy Savile is dead. Has been for over a year. Get over it.
Jimmy Savile committed most of his crimes years ago. Get over it.

If Jimmy Savile, the UPS driver, ran over and killed a member of your family would you get over it?

If Jimmy Savile, the UPS driver, was driving illegally, would you get over it? You have seen the statistics on Tachograph infringements, it's not just an odd occurrence.

Did anyone watch "How safe are Britain's roads"? What did you conclude from the programme?

Road deaths are rising.

Every accident has a cause. In UPS speak the driver is always guilty until proven innocent. If you've read about disciplinaries on here, you'll know that disciplinaries can be corrupt. I see that there have been many hits on my clip of Scott Fowler saying drivers should stop out on road until 22.00 if necessary. That's the important bit in the meeting that didn't feature in Paul Mooney's notes of the meeting. Strangely, it was in my notes. Not in the notes, didn't happen.

What was the cause of most accidents?
A lack of concentration.

What could cause a lack of concentration?
Driver fatigue - long hours, no breaks. insufficient breaks.
Driver distraction - thinking about how he'd been bullied into taking extra stops out. How he will have to stay out until 22.00 if necessary.

Now do you understand why I keep raising these issues?

As a supervisor I trained drivers in space and visibility habits, this was over-ridden by poor despatch. Drivers have to cut corners or come back late. Which option do you think a driver will take? 

All this to increase productivity to line the pockets of Scott Davis, not the drivers.

1 comment:

  1. UPS TREAT STAFF LIKE CRETINS !! Very interesting,sad how a blue chip company can treat their employees like cretins (which they certainly are not) a member of my family was recently sacked, due to the three strike accident rule!! through no fault of his own. We have to remember a 7.5ton vehicle in country lanes would cause any problems/obstruction, no matter how well he was trained, he pleaded his case for a smaller van, but it fell on deaf ears with the management and nothing ever came of it, except he was sacked on the three strike accident rule!! Pathetic. He had been with the company for four years. Interesting though,how they have bought out TNT and the drivers there are on lower wages FACT ! (as my company receives parcels via TNT and I have asked the drivers about there terms and conditions of employment incl wages, cheeky I know, but hey, dont ask and you never get to know). I wait to see how many other good UPS drivers are sacked in favour of this buy out to SAVE UPS SALARY BILL. In my opinion this is why they are getting rid of the decent staff and especially the ones they would have to pay severance pay too in a redundancy situation !!!

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