Over the July 4th Holiday, we decided to take a family vacation to North Carolina to visit some friends. On our drive up from Florida, I encountered many vehicle abuse situations where drivers were passing aggressively, speeding, harsh breaking, following to closely, texting or on the phone while driving, one guy was changing his clothes on the interstate doing almost 80 mph, swerving all over and barley missing cars! I jumped into “business mode” and reached for my trusty iPhone when I was quickly reminded by my family that I was on vacation, and I promised to cut the umbilical cord for the weekend and have some “family time”. I reluctantly put my phone down and kept driving, but the wheels in my head kept spinning about how angry I would be if my employees were driving my vehicles like that, with my name on the truck. Every 50 or so miles, I would see another instance of this same abuse, and my instincts would kick in again, and I could just sense the family glares… so I kept driving.
After a couple days on the lake we took a drive into town, and we passed the local boat ramp. There were company trucks ALL over this boat ramp with trailers attached and those still with boats waiting in line to launch! This was my Christmas! I couldn’t believe the blatant misuse of company vehicles! An employee using their company truck to take their personal boat to the lake for the weekend! I was our last day, so I gave the puppy dog eyes and the family gave in. We pulled into the boat ramp, I got out with my trusty camera, and took some snapshots of what I had just witnessed.
Now being a former small business owner with vehicles on the road that I paid for, that had MY name on them, MY gas, MY insurance ect, I become a little bit passionate about about the subject. If someone is driving crazy, cutting people off, using it to move their boat around town, it doesn’t create a positive company image. The the libality questions arise… what happens, when that truck slides down the boat ramp, into the water? Try explaining that one to the boss.. With GPS tracking, you don’t have to, because the vehicles wouldn’t be there in the first place.
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