Interstate Distributor Owner Operator Program
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BQ wrote:
After everything written, this is your response? Success is subjective. You can't be serious. In my 30+ years as a professional in business, I've never experienced that or used it as an evaluation criteria.
Subjective indicates "feeling", "opinion", and non-tangible values. Is that how Prime evaluates your performance and success as a driver, ...subjectively? Is the safety director interested in subjective safety behavior? How about the fleet manager? Do they give out trophies for "trying" even though your performance and safety record is unsatisfactory?
I get it, if going through Cancer treatments, or rehabbing in an addiction center; "getting out of bed in the morning" is a measurement of success. No argument there. However in a job, you do not have the benefit of defining how success is measured. Your employer decides that, and it's primarily "objective", not "subjective".
By definition a lease operator is a business person, running their own business. Business people and business owners do not and cannot operate subjectively when it comes to success. They don't think subjectively; they think analytically, methodically, and decisively, no "feeling" or brownie points awarded for trying.
Success in a job and more specifically for a business owner, is not defined subjectively. Success is measured against a set of value parameters, that in many cases are defined by creditors, such as the finance company carrying the paper on your leased truck. "Mr. L/O. you either make the truck payments on time or you lose the truck." "Not my problem if you only have scraps left after the payment." Black and white, and arbitrary. Losing the truck is a failure, not a success. "Yeah, but I tried, worked hard...". Doesn't matter.
A fail is a fail.
Fleet Manager:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.