Sysco's Truck Driver Cell Phone Policy is INSANE!

[@B2Speaks]

For you "geniuses" out there who keep commenting about the headset I show in the video: A- I was using that as an example for any kind of headset B- That headset is double-sided, but you can still wear it to where it only covers one ear only. IF YOU COMMENT ABOUT THE HEADSET IN THE VIDEO TELLING ME AS IF I DONT KNOW NOT TO RIDE DOWN THE ROAD WITH BOTH EARS COVERED, YOUR COMMENT WILL BE DELETED! Thanks!

[@jks3849]

Sysco got themselves added to my blacklist of companies I'll never drive for

[@user-zs4um9lw3n]

Joke’s on Sysco, then. I’m required by DOT to wear my hearing aids while driving a truck, and they’re Bluetooth connected to my phone. The camera would just show me talking to myself.

[@aa-hj2fd]

I keep saying it, inward facing cameras are used as weapons

[@mrb5367]

This is why im leaving the industry.

[@MrSamadolfo]

RUN FOREST RUN!!!! 😊

[@davebaker489]

My last employer ( a fuel distribution company) had a zero tolerance policy for cell phones BUT would call the driver. We were also tracked and every movement monitored as well. By that I mean braking , acceleration, speed, hours of service and location. This means THEY knew when we were driving or stopped. So we could NOT use the phone when driving or when loading fuel or unloading fuel. Yet they'd still call. Several years ago now I asked, if I can't use it when diving , loading or unloading When can I use it ? Also if big brother is monitoring my every move why do they call when I'm driving? Still waiting for that answer. The best part was when they decided to take away the company cell phones but would call on our personal phones. I would not pick up once I read who was calling. I told them if they were to pay at least part of my cell cost I would answer. They refused and so did I. Sure glad I'm retired now.... 40 plus years of compounding B/S was enough.

[@JohnnyB1203]

He not lying, worked there. Got smart got my hazmat and got up out of there. More dangerous falling asleep from boredom lol talking on the phone with my guys is my mojo to get thru the night shift

[@gregdcross]

Airgas has an even stricter policy. No headset, no phone use, no eating or drinking even from a water bottle INLESS you are stopped and the vehicle is safely parked. This includes their pickup trucks and regional offices have people who watch the dash cams all the time. This is why they have a tin of turnovers and perpetually ads for drivers.

[@mayyouprosper8140]

My friend is a truck driver. He told me he scratched his head and the camera told him he was a distracted driver.

[@B2Speaks]

I believe him too!

[@charlesjr916]

TMC and Schneider are the same way which is why I refuse to work for them

[@jks3849]

Two more added to my blacklist

[@Tooter666]

These companies dying to get these self driving trucks, cant wait to get rid of us 😂

[@mauriceevans6546]

I work for medline and we are not allowed to use a cell phone at all while driving. No ear piece, no other device is allowed. If you get a phone call, u must stop the truck and put it on neutral and pull the parking brake. A driver got fired a month ago, because he called in amd joked with the supervisor about riding down the road on the phone. It just happened that it happened on that day when the network was down and they couldn't verify he was sitting still.

[@jks3849]

Another company added to my blacklist

[@user-id2hx1mv5w]

I think Saia LTL has the same policy. It's crazy man! Great content as always!

[@jks3849]

They're on my blacklist too

[@lightspeeddan8263]

Proving once again there's no truck driver shortage, When these companies are just making up excuses to fire good employees

[@MrSamadolfo]

big nationwide companies hire 500 trucker drivers per week, let that sink in

[@mwalker3547]

I think truckers should all start wearing VR goggles.... That'll throw those desk jockeys off.

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 Night Vision would be good for Night Driving

[@backends1233]

Schneider got the same policy can’t use Bluetooth headset

[@king_savage89]

I would never work for a tucking company with that policy, if i go a orientation and they're talking about no Bluetooth/no headsets, on god im walking out

[@Imbrokeaintgotit]

It’s a form of control

[@Axel-Live]

Sysco has always been a bully in everything. I also have a restaurant background and they gouge their customers who don'y pay attention. These companies want to completely control an individual and they will always have problems with attracting good solid people.

[@user-oc5mw2bb6g]

My sister used to do payroll for Sysco said it was one of the worst jobs she’s ever had, most dysfunctional company to work for said they’re so stuck in the past it’s ridiculous. Said most drivers were working 6 days, had people in management positions who couldn’t manage themselves let alone a company. Said one of the biggest problems was upper upper management I think she lasted just a few months before she ran from them. 😂😅

[@TRONABORON]

Sysco-high turnover rate!

[@crazytrucker09]

Schneider has a no cellphone policy. Can’t even use a headset

[@shawnmacmurray3586]

Safety? Meanwhile their ramps on the trucks barely pull out, broken snow chains and shotty equipment. I would never work for Sysco again

[@Farrell0208]

Companies should NOT be allowed to amend DOT law. If they don’t like it, then they should not be allowed an MC number, or allowed to run under any other MC number, not allowed to get insurance and therefore not allowed to be in business. You run your business and let the feds handle ALL the laws, rules, and regulations.

[@drew.4622]

At this point fuck trucking Smfh

[@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker]

Back in the day I worked for Transport America. Same policy. We all ignored it though bc it’s stupid af. We just took the headsets off at the yard.

[@B2Speaks]

I feel ya.. The way they doing it now is through the driver facing camera. If the camera catches someone driving with a headset, then it's a wrap. It's all nonsense man..

[@gsherman554]

Been at Sysco Atl 2yrs now..its not what you do,its how you do it.Wear ear peace in opposite ear of camera and the camera ONLY comes on if youre involved in an accident or slam on breaks😊​@@B2Speaks

[@k.c.marshall921]

​. "Ear piece"& "brakes".

[@jks3849]

Another company added to my blacklist

[@ronnieallen6986]

I say if they are that hard on cell phone usage just turn off the phone until your done for the day and if they say something like they been trying to call and no answer say can't use it against company policy if all there drivers would do it this might get changed

[@mwalker3547]

💯

[@Bigzero.Scratcher]

They will just contact you through the eld in the truck

[@Resistance_is_Futile01]

But yet these guys still want to work for these craptastic companies?

[@B2Speaks]

Exactly

[@AceSmoke662]

Jb hunt had some similar to that when i went 2 years ago i was looking for another job in orientation

[@Takaride]

They think that if you are having a phone conversation that the conversation itself can distract you from the road and make you less aware without doing so.

[@AntonioHernandez-bj4cx]

If that dumb ass policy comes to my company (which wouldn’t surprise me) I’d quit the same day without a 2 week notice…. This is why there is a driver retention problem, too many stupid rules

[@PARMYGUY]

ITS ALSO ABOUT CONTROL AND MONEY. THEY DONT LIKE YOU MAKING THAT GOOD MONEY. MORE THAN THEM AS SUPERVISORS. IF YOU GET A GUY WHO JUST DONT LIKE TRUCK DRIVER S OH BOY.

[@sintiasmare6561]

I worked for US Foods last year and only lasted 3 months. It wasn't for me. Their policy on hands free bluetooth devices was that we were only allowed to wear one ear bud and it HAD to be on the left ear. They wouldn't even allow a headset or ear plugs with cords. I had a headset and was more comfortable to wear it on my my right ear, but they wouldn't allow it. For me it makes sense to free up the left ear to be able to hear traffic better if the window is rolled down. That was a head scratcher for me cause I had a working headset but yet couldn't use it. I would have to buy ear plugs. I never did. I decided to only make calls when I got to my stops. Not sure if this policy was a whole company wide policy or just for the location I was at. Stupid policy, shouldn't matter which style handsfree device to use. I will say, I noticed you have a double ear headset which I could see that being an issue cause i feel one ear should be free to listen for traffic or sirens.

[@B2Speaks]

I hear just fine with the one in the video. Plus, you can leave the one side off your ear if you want. I mostly drive with one earbud in any way.

[@joshchafinjr.5520]

Waste management was the same way those dang drive cams I watched that cam like I watched the road. It was a distraction and kept me job scared . Nobody wants to lose their job unexpectedly. The used it as a way to get rid of people just to keep everyone scared. No matter what that thing will get you for something like people taking your following distance or something petty like that.

[@TRONABORON]

My old company had those camera-use to put the visor all the way down to block the camera! 😂 Eventually they got rid of them...

[@xxp00n3dxx0]

Worked at Sysco 2 years. Fired for not closing out a stop that I’m positive I did. Got the, see me in the office. Money was good but didn’t leave me alone after injury to my back, so they wrote me up for anything they could find.

[@djsimmons4141]

In 08 the Chatsworth train collision brought all of this about. The train engineer was texting at the time of the collision and 25 passengers died. I was a company driver then O/O for 20 years then went to work for the railroad and was a locomotive engineer in 08 when the collision occurred. The unions fought for 4 years trying to block FOWARD facing cameras and lost. The unions fought another 2 years to block INWARD facing cameras and lost. We had to turn our phones off and store them away the entire tour of duty. Later they installed signal readers to monitor if the phones were off. I retired 4 years after the inward cams were installed and the only person fired was a guy that put Vaseline on the lens as a joke I guess. We had a lot of people sent home for 6 months without pay for cellphones and a few were fired because they valued their independence more than their livelihood. The bottom line is when you get in an accident you aren’t getting a jury of 18 wheelers. You’re getting a jury that hates 18 wheelers and a jury that’s been late to work and disciplined or fired because they were blocked by the train. In the end it made us more compliant because the ultimate goal is get home and break bread for the people that rely on us .. and if the worse happens and someone is hurt or killed we will need to be able to tell ourselves that “we” did everything in our power to prevent it.

[@jks3849]

Sounds like a company that needs to go full autonomous, they're too distrustful If I knew who this company is, it'd be added to my blacklist

[@maynardholmes8870]

Shouldn’t the Teamsters be protecting them from us? I was in a food service company and I lasted 15 years until my body started swelling up and not in a good way when you wake up in the morning after two days off then you realize oh yeah, I took a fall there. I did this I twisted a pivoted that waystayed a little bit too long. The money ain’t worth it the pain’s gonna be there for the rest of your life.

[@kubalacon717]

It's simple, ANY use of the phone while driving is a form of distraction wether via headset or hand held. Sysco has definately taken it too far, how else can you communicate while driving?? They give you the BOOT? That is just plain stupid 🙃 I know the food service companies are starving for drivers? I've heard about another food company that fired drivers if they made a U-turn!

[@Dannyslife809]

Worked for the sister company SYGMA … the worse place to work at , would rather work for western express 😂

[@benjaminframe5530]

Subbed…great stuff!

[@B2Speaks]

Thanks for the support!

[@YhvngKV]

I’m a truck driver…I always have my phone in my hand. I’m typing this going down the hwy right tf now. I been doing this for damn near 10yrs. I refuse to work for ANY company that has inside facing cameras. I don’t need no babysitter. I drive w my AirPods in…I wish a mf would tell me I can’t. Do you want the load to be delivered or not? What I do behind this wheel ain’t nobody business. All that should matter is that I made my delivery on time

[@MrSamadolfo]

i agree

[@FlyOverStars]

I mean it can be unsafe cause people tend to laugh or say you arguing and can easily misjudge something but it is stupid to get fired over that

[@devoywilliams3956]

They will eventually run out of rookies

[@wingmannj]

i've trained drivers that come to my company from other companies and hear the horror stories about the damn cameras and what they detect a driver doing. an eye scratch would set a camera off so the driver is called into the office to review the video and only then is it determined that it was an eye scratch and not something more incriminating. we have a camera policy that is moderately lenient with a point system for various infractions such as following too close ( one second or less following distance), rolling through stop signs, speeding (>10mph over posted limit), preventable crashes. it isnt ridiculous. after so many consecutive months exceeding a certain number of points might be 4 the driver will be terminated. there are warnings leading up to this though, the driver is made aware well before it gets to that point. the driver facing camera isnt showing anything during a typical triggered event, hard brake or whatever, but can be accessed if necessary such as a crash that appears preventable which most of us find to be very reasonable. a driver i trained very recently shared a story about a friend of his who was a coworker. he hadnt had any camera activations whatsoever for years. management wanted to get him on something so they had him use a cab in which they moved the camera downward and caught him touching his phone, just a very quick innocuous tap maybe for a time check. it destroyed his trust in the company, if they're willing to do that what else are they willing to do just to "get" a driver. he left shortly after.

[@jeffbushnell4910]

The bad thing is that those cameras they used to have had the lights. Now the cameras don’t have the lights so you don’t know when the camera goes off. Sysco says they urgently need drivers but they keep firing and making people quit with how they treat people. I made great money while working there and learned a lot.

[@B2Speaks]

You're exactly right ✅️

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 if u can handle the brutal truth, truth is all these laws and policies and rules and technology, the true purpose is to keep the turnover rate as high as possible, its as simple as that

[@truckingwithcrete]

Bro, I worked there for a year. I don't even know how I stayed there that long. I'm otr now.

[@camplogic9185]

Schneider is the same way, but we still do it

[@NightowlTrucking]

??? That makes no sense. Don’t the drivers need to speak to dispatch sometimes throughout the day? How do they reconcile that?

[@B2Speaks]

Exactly!

[@humbledriver2536]

Spot on. Limited quality drivers. Getting to be too much.

[@themartins4182]

Air Liquide and Airgas have the same policy. No phones at all. They have to be off at all times.

[@sandroaces]

Never would work for them

[@DaveRN51]

Air products too!

[@jks3849]

Two more added to my blacklist

[@jks3849]

​@@DaveRN51make that three

[@themartins4182]

I left. My decision. It is what it is.

[@user-wn8so7kc8e]

Government control...no thanks

[@user-wn8so7kc8e]

I'm not touching no Freight....120 a year from inside delivery...kick rocks

[@Lizbeth36961]

Double negative in a sentence?

[@rodneyfelton7616]

@@Lizbeth36961You should get you a English teaching job and stay out of the comment section. Nobody needs you correcting their grammar.

[@Lizbeth36961]

@@rodneyfelton7616 English is my 4th language 😘😘😘🤣

[@rodneyfelton7616]

@@Lizbeth36961 That explains why you’re the only person in the comment section correcting grammar. SMH You shouldn’t let it go to your head like that. Get you a job correcting grammar instead of doing it on KZbin.✌🏾

[@jks3849]

Too often insurance companies and lawyers dictate company policy, that's in any industry

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 connect the phone to your radios speakers, u can clip the mic somewhere nearby discreetly

[@adamjordan4638]

PFG HAS THE SAME POLICY.

[@davidofthemeadow]

I don’t agree with the policy because it’s overbearing but it’s not stupid. Have you ever been in a hectic traffic situation and adverse weather with a female just yapping away in your ear non-stop? I’ve knocked my Bluetooth off my head because it’s easier than interrupting the long winded monologue to say “yo can you shut up for a minute to let me concentrate?” When a person is in the car with you they will naturally go quiet when they see a crazy traffic situation but having a person on the phone they’ll be yapping away while you are rolled over into the ditch. “Hello, are you there? Are you listening to me?” No bwhich, I flew through the windshield.

[@Seri-Katil]

Schneider has the same rule.

[@supremej2709]

j.b. hunt is the same way. Trucking just not the same. They want robots to drive these trucks.

[@B2Speaks]

Yeah it's sad. I worked for jb hunt intermodal before they got the camera a few years ago. They were a good company then. Can't Believe they switched up and went down the camera road...

[@jks3849]

Another one added to my blacklist

[@anntiup]

SOUNDS LIKE THESE TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE PLAYING THE "NUMBERS GAME" LIKE THE FOOD DELIVERY APPS...SMMFH 🤨

[@charlesmcjunkins3082]

What they going do went everyones gets out of tricking lol

[@MrSamadolfo]

a handful of AI trucks will move the freight but most people will have to fend for themselves and fight for whatever is left on the shelves

[@tstokes6949]

There not the only one waste management is another one

[@jeremygriffith5194]

Mayfield milk is the same way

[@keithh8149]

Because being on the phone is considered a distraction, plus you're not supposed to have both ears covered like the headset you're wearing

[@B2Speaks]

There is no law that says both ears can't be covered.

[@TheRichlauer]

They can pay one cheaper

[@middleburg11]

U fall asleep form boredom... Guess ok to talk on speaker ???? 😮

[@middleburg11]

Google maps is live saver and always look at everything driving saves money 💰 and time.. to much bullshit with a cam facing you .. look down look up check mirror all distracted driving... On white line center lane another getting in trouble run a light or stop too fast another one and fired... Lol

[@lwrefrigeratedexpress5698]

You are at work, you shouldn't be on the damn phone.

[@B2Speaks]

You sound ridiculous. I do the bulk majority of my driving at night. It's actually a good practice to have someone you can talk to hands-free while driving at night. It helps keep you from falling asleep and alert. Because even if you get your proper rest, driving at night naturally makes one a little drowsy and less alert. I talk to my wife at night while I drive on the phone for that very reason.

[@Farrell0208]

When you drive for 10 hours a day, every day and don’t have someone to talk to, then come back and tell me you still think the same thing. GTFOH with that crap!

[@Tyrone1390]

my company has same policy