Employee Driver Relationships

Do trucking companies have policies that a driver cannot be in relationship with an employee from the same company? Does Celadon has such policies?

Come clean, you have a crush on an office employee? Its alright Drake!

Many companies have such policies. I don't know specifically if any trucking companies do, but the reason behind those kinds of policies is usually to preserve overall employee morale. It's often restricted to relationships where the two people involved have some kind of direct reporting relationship (supervisor and employee) or an auditing relationship (quality control auditor and production worker).

If people find out that Bob is dating Alice, they will start looking for examples of how Alice lets Bob get the preferred holidays off, or how she never finds defects in his work but they're getting written up for it, even though everyone knows Bob's work is below average. And "everyone" knows that, whether it's true or not.

A trucking example could be a driver dating a fleet manager or a safety compliance auditor. It's all a matter of what their roles are at the company. Obviously, there are lots of team drivers who are in relationships (marriage, siblings, etc.) and no one has a problem with it. Why? Because they're on equal footing when it comes to the job role.

It's all about whether there's a chance one person could unfairly help the other person get an advantage at work.

Some places frown on all work place dating, though. I once had a boss tell me, "Don't fish off the company pier."

Best bet is to ask HR what the nepotism policy is there.

There's a saying: "never fish off the company pier."

As stated above this may really depend on the position of said person. If she's a fleet manager , HR, safety type person.....I'd bet there will be a problem from upper management on that. As well as other employees. Also keep in mind in this day and age, sexual harassment charges are everywhere. Be very careful whom you court within the company.

A simple call to the companies HR rep will answer this question.

This applies to work relationships and lease to own for the company you work for:

Never get your honey where you get your money.

and:

Don't slam your d**k in the cash register.

Both were brought up to me when I was young and running my own business. Today I wish I had listened better.