Slip Seating

[hellcat_99]

Now this is a good one.
How many have slipped seated with other driver's using the same trk?

Now you really need to respect the other person using the trk.
Do they smoke?
What condition do they leave the trk in?

There's so much to be said on this subject, so lets hear some stories.

Holly

[buzzy]

and you gotta learn to use the shower and change clothes once in a while or you'll give new meaning to "slip-seating" :wow: :wow: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

[hellcat_99]

Don't forget that there are 2 or more driver's to a trk. Keep it clean.


Holly

[Lonleyboy 515]

I .just won't do it :cheers:

[Mr.Hemi]

Did it once,won't do it again!

[Drifter]

This is an older post, we used to slipseat with temps. and driver personel drivers, all of us (18) drivers started bagging the garbage and leaving it on the dispatchers desk with a note to please return this to abc driver. Slipseating ended after a few ripe bags were left there :yikes:

[bikerboy]

I have never worked anywhere that didn't slipseat the trucks!

Where i work now, there are more smokers, than non smokers!Some of them don't care how messy they are, and leave ashes all over the dash and floor, and spill coffee everywhere!

Some of them leave garbage in the trucks all the time.


But i don't mind too much, at least all summer, usually we each have a truck to ourselves, and no one else drives it, unless we need a day off or call in sick, then someone else always drives my truck!

[hellcat_99]

There should be rules about respecting the sharing of the trk. All who drive it should leave it clean for the next driver, or for themselves for that matter.

Holly

[bikerboy]

It is very hard to keep a gravel truck or snowplow clean on the inside, you have to be constantly wiping the dash and gauges and always sweeping the floor.
Some guys just don't bother.

I hate dusty dash and gauges tho!

[eastern ontario]

If I can make a suggestion.........take a bulk pkg of baby wipes with you on your next shift......leave it on the seat and a grocery bag hung somewhere from the dash along with a note explaining the purpose.

It's worth a try.

[hellcat_99]

That's a nice thought, but doesn't always happen. The next driver would just leave the garbage bag & whatever didn't make it in the bag, in the trk. To much effort to take it out to a garbage bin.

Holly

[Mr Gizmo]

I would rather slip seat than run team with some of these guys. Last job I did was running team, after a great year running with a friend who decided he was going to take a year away from work to travel Europe, my company gave me a temp guy. Well after 3 months of running with him I started to get a bad odour originating from under the bed.

Under the bed was 3 months of bottles filled with you know what :angry: 2 of them were leaking, So kicked him out of the truck and asked my boss to get it cleaned out properly. His reply was, it"s your truck so you clean it.

Not my name on the door I said. So I resigned. NEVER will I run team again.

[woodie]

On the subject of garbage, this is for all you Canadians out there;


KEEP YOUR COUNTRY CLEAN.............DUMP YOUR RUBBISH IN AMERICA!!

[PavementPilot]

At Winfield Motor Freight Inc and DCT, we slip seat all the time. You need to clean the unit (sweep or use a blow gun on the floor and seats, empty the damn ashtray, wipe the dash down), fuel and wash the windows, top up the fluids, report any defects for repairs and inform the other driver(s) of said defects, and remove all trash and personal effects from unit.

[buzzy]

Where i work now, there are more smokers, than non smokers!Some of them don't care how messy they are, and leave ashes all over the dash and floor, and spill coffee everywhere!


Hey BB! There is a law in Ontario that prohibits smoking in a local truck. The only way around this law is with a PRP plate (outside province running rights) or a truck that runs the U.S.

Far as I know.......you guys running pit to job site are local trucks.

[RodeoJoe]

Re smoking in trucks, it is against Workers Comp regs to smoke in an enclosed area that others enter. At Aggressive Transport (where I work) you will be terminated if you are caught smoking in a company truck. Re slipseating, I HATE IT! I spend 4 - 5 days per week in my assigned truck and sometimes my truck makes a short trip during my time off. I get back in the truck and the mirrors are different, the seat is all out of whack, the radio presets are all changed to someone else's preferences, and the truck is usually dirtier than when I left it. It generally takes me the first half of a trip to get the truck back to where I left it, that is, to suit me. I realize that the company must utilize their equipment efficiently in order to make money but it AGGRAVATES THE HELL OUT OF ME when someone else drives my truck. Fortunately, at the company with the cloud on the hood, it doesn't happen very often.
There is another side of this discussion, in that, I firmly believe that mechanical devices (trucks, cars, motorcycles, atvs, etc) all have a soul or a personality that is formed over time by the interaction with the operator. They, the mechanical devices, have good days and bad days and some days when they are just a little off colour. Over the years I have been fortunate in having an excellent rapport with the trucks I have driven with very few exceptions. The trucks that I have driven on a regular basis have let me know, in no uncertain terms, that they have been driven by someone else and that THEY DON'T LIKE IT. The 05 Columbia that I now drive will go into a pout for a few hours or up to a day after being driven by someone else and can be brought out of this blue funk by feeding it a tank full of good Canadian fuel and/or doing a Sunday job of cleaning the windows and mirrors.
So, on the subject of slipseating you can put me down as AGIN IT!