And on the FMCSR part, I'm about to send out my speed blast and HOS blast.
Pretty much every truck is a computer, and it tracks all kinds of things. We use third party software to compare the actual speed of the truck to the posted limit of the road. Then with that information I can use spreadsheet to match the truck numbers to the individual email of the truck and send a message to each driver detailing how many times they exceeded the speed limit in a week as a reminder.
Very similar to this we track HOS and violations by hours minutes and second. Each week I use a similar process as described above to reach out to each driver with a violation and let them know how many violations, what type of violation, and the total hours, minutes, and seconds they were in violation for the week.
As a result, many drivers do not like me. The funny thing is they aren't in trouble for the violations, we're just sending them reminders to follow the posted limit to prevent citations, and reminders to follow the HOS regulations to keep them safe during an inspection or DOT audit.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
So yeah, I got pretty lazy hey. Gavin and I are going start things up again.
Well it's official, the new CSA scores are out. We've made huge improvements! We have some work to do still but this is nothing short of amazing.
March 2011
Now
All that hard work is paying off. Makes running reports morning and night a bit easier now that we can see the results! I'm going to go ahead and toot my own horn since I was the guy that trained everyone on eLogs and trained the log auditors to learn how to use the PFM to audit eLogs. Without this we'd still be getting inspected at a much higher rate. With this being said, I'll go back to we still have a lot of work to do as we have drivers/office staff that aren't safety minded.
And onto the the fun stuff. As you know this week is "e" and Green (that has two e's by the way)
So we went to the park this morning and saw some "e"'s
BLUE "E"
BLACK "E"
"E"ating
Slid"e"
That was all fun and games until the kids from St. Joe's arrived. They were an unruly bunch. I found it ironic that they aren't supposed to go on the merry-go-round, but they can climb up on the top of the monkey bars, and all over the outside of the playground equipment. My guess is you'll probably get hurt much worse when you fall the 15 feet to the ground then you will from falling off of the merry-go-round.
Anyways, back on topic. Videos, so Green. Yeah, not as exciting as pink or yellow.
Ok, first off sorry about not posting on Friday. Gavin started the day off by dropping a Roomba on his toe. It sliced his toenail off and bled everywhere. It was gross and clearly needed medical attention. So we went to the Upland Hills Urgent Care. I'll post pictures someday.
The weekend continued with some geocaching with Ruth, that was fun. We went back for a candlelight walk without Ruth (you know because she had to go home). That was pretty fun, but Gavin wasn't feeling it, so I carried him most of the way. Melissa and Logan got smores and hot chocolate by the bonfire afterwards.
Sunday AM I caught up on reports, focusing mostly on Miles Without Hours. That's when either the people net fails, a driver logs out (to cheat the system), or the shop uses the truck. for the most part our drivers are doing well. I was able to identify several drivers that thought they were getting away with something. All they've done at this point is draw more attention to themselves and taken one step closer to finding a new job. I'll complete the report shortly and send it off to my supervisor and he can make the call. I think log falsification deserves termination because everyone knows that is not acceptable, anywhere.
Alright, back to more fun stuff. Logan has decided this weeks color will be GREEN!!!! and of course our letter is E.
GREEN truck right outside of our front door!
GREEN garbage cans!
"E"njoying the park.
GREEN leaf
Playing together!
That foot isn't bothering him too much, giving Logan a ride.
Wow, so going to work is way easier than staying home when you're sick. All you do when your sick at work is look and act miserable and everyone leaves you alone. Do it at home and your kids say stuff like "Mom's and Dad's don't get sick". Yep it's awesome. Last night there were a handful of calls, pretty easy to handle. Looking at the HOS violators this morning it looks like there should have been a handful more calls last night. Roll Stability is getting easier to understand, I find it difficult to delegate to others. I miss having the control of the conversations and knowing when to push and when not to.
This morning we took a ride to the park, not much for colors. Well that's not true to the leaves are changing nicely. We go to the park and played in the leaves before the city workers started mowing them up.
So it was an average busy night, like 5 phone calls spread out between 10 and 3, that kind of sucked. Oh well up at 0530 to run reports. I finished up the biggest one last night where we tallied all of the violations for the month, broke it down by driver and totaled the amount of time they spent in violation. Sounds like a lot just typing it, keep in mind we're not the most compliant company so it took a long freakin' time. I should probably take a course on micro computer applications (and you know actually pay attention this time).
This morning we got dressed up for the weather and went to the park, Logan didn't want to ride his bike so he just walked. Gavin did want to ride his bike, he became very upset when I didn't have his helmet, but he rode anyways (well he sat on his bike and I pushed him). We played at both parks, the kids loved the volleyball court. They were digging for dinosaur bones.
