The majority of the collisions we see as a region and as a company revolve around backing or hitting a stationary object. Our drivers at Family Dollar perform one of the hardest jobs in the region. In addition to having to hand unload the entire 53 foot trailer, just getting into these Family Dollar Stores is a job in and of itself. Many times our drivers are forced to back across multiple lanes of traffic, or down back alleys, or over curbs just to get into a safe spot to unload.
In an effort to reduce these backing issues, as well as increase our drivers experience and skill set, the FD Ashley Team as well as ARM Jeff Holle setup a backing course this week. Working with each driver for only 30 minutes equates to months worth of backing that they would be doing out making deliveries. There is no better training to give our drivers. They get to improve their knowledge and skills, and we as a company benefit from lower collision costs.
The account management of
Kyle Herron, Philip Olney, and Tom Nelson set up cones in a close quarter
backing course. They made this backing course tight to challenge their drivers
not just on backing skills, but also the thought process that is taken before
starting the backing maneuver. The course only gave the driver 113 feet from
the back of the dock area to the farthest part of the area to work with. The
dock only was 11 feet wide this left very little room for error. What was
impressive was every driver was able to make this backing maneuver! The key
learning to this exercise was simply when getting ready to back into an area to
unload regardless being a dock or behind a retail building planning the backing
maneuver before backing leads to success.
Great work from our Family Dollar Ashely team.
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