A mindset that pusses deliveries ahead of safety. I was fired twice from this organization. The first time they blamed it on job abandonment when i took an approved vacation. After telling the company that this was wrong and this entire meeting was being recorded for my protection. While cleaning my truck out i was told they found my approved signed vacation request so please disregard the termination letter.
The quality of the local service center is incompetent at best. Trucks that go into the shop come out with new problems, the rental trucks have almost all had to be returned right away due to problems that make them unsafe. I even sent Ryder corp in Miami complaints when truck 626863 was in the shop for over 8 weeks for what other shops informed me that it should have only taken 13 shop hours + a few days for parts.and finally came back with more problems and shaking uncontrollably. This truck went in over 3 more times until i finally refused to drive it. Ryder continued to pass this tuck to any new people or temp drivers until they finally refused to drive it. Thats a real safe practice.
I had the unfortunate problem while driving down a 2 way road that when cars are parked on both sides there is only room for one vehicle in the middle of the street. A low hanging branch had ripped a hole in the Conestoga trailer i was hauling. Pulling over i took pictures of the street, the trailer, in both directions and filled out an accident report. Ryder considered it a preventable accident, (making it my fault) Weeks latter i found that the camera i used to document the accident location was never sent to be developed or evaluated.
Repeating loading problems using a poor plastic wrap that unravels and trails off behind the trailer. Each time this happens i would take pictures of the length of plastic and sen it to dispatch complaining that this endangers my life when i have to pull over and remove it along with endangering all the other motorists around my truck.
There are so many additional problems that i am so glad not to work for Ryder any longer.
During my 4.5 years every week i would see new faces as drivers due to the high turn over due to poor management.
