STILL UNCERTAIN KENWORTH TRUCK COMPANY KNOWINGLY RENT
Lets face it, there are good truck driver (I represent a lot of them if they get hurt through unsafe truck drivers.) and then there are people who should drive a tractor trailer, much less a tricycle not. The second category of the truck driver threatened my family and my friends along the way. So what do?
Well, if you are a truck company Manager is the first thing, that you do rent safe drivers. (The second thing you can do a reasonable education but can save that for another day.) In 2008, there were 4.9 million commercial drivers. Despite the large number of drivers of truck companies have almost 100% turnover of drivers a year - and a driver shortage is expected by the industry. This means that a truck company has each driver in your fleet replace every year. Some companies simply rent from the bottom of the barrel as drivers get harder to find.
The FMCSA agrees that safe driver hire is extremely important in the prevention of wrecks. It has therefore set up a pre-employment screening program (PSP) enable to check crash truck company drivers and safety records from BEFORE you rent it. So we consider there are nearly 5 million drivers and 100% turnover, should it right nearly 5 million drivers security checks? False! Checked only 7.6 the truck driver, or 380,000, were before the last year set out! (Transport topics, 30 May 2011, p4) Check out why, I think the driver not they? Bad driver work cheaper wages down in the industry for good safe professional drivers to keep and put more money into the pockets of the truck companies.
Keep once again move the wheels and the money trumps putting safe drivers behind the wheels and pay them fairly.
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TRUCKING COMPANY STILL UNSAFE KENWORTH KNOWINGLY RENT
Posted on June 4, 2011 by Morgan Adams
Lets face it, there are good truck drivers (I represent a lot of them when they get hurt by unsafe truck drivers.) and then there are folks that shouldn't drive a tricycle much less a tractor trailer. The latter category of truck drivers endangers my friends on the road and my family. So what to do?
Well, if you are a trucking company executive, the first thing you can do is hire safe drivers. (The second thing you can is provide adequate training but lets save that for another day.) In 2008 there were 4.9 million of commercial drivers. Despite the large number of drivers, trucking companies have almost 100% turnover of drivers every year - and a driver shortage is anticipated by the industry. That means that a trucking company has to replace each driver in their fleet every year. As drivers get harder to find, some companies simply hire from the bottom of the barrel.
The FMCSA agrees that hiring safe drivers is critically important in avoiding wrecks. It has therefore set up a pre employment screening program (PSP) to allow trucking companies to check drivers crash and safety records out BEFORE they hire them. So if we consider there are almost 5 million drivers, and 100% turnover, there should be almost 5 million driver safety checks right? Wrong! Only 7.6 of truck drivers, or 380,000 were checked out before being hired last year! (Transportation topics, May 30, 2011, p4) The reason I believe they dont check out drivers? Bad drivers work cheaper, keeping wages down across the industry for good safe drivers and putting professional more money into the pockets of trucking companies.
Once again keeping the wheels moving, and making money, wins out over putting safe drivers behind the wheels and paying them fairly.
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