Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
I will flat out tell the drivers to slow down, stop texting, etc. you also need to be reporting unsafe driving to your hotel committee and filing
incident reports (or whatever you may call them at frontier). The unsafe driving is an industry problem that a lot of us seem to tolerate and I’m over it. We have families to return to and the more of us that report it the more it comes up and contracts get pulled and change happens. Report the condition of the vehicle too. Bald tires, inop seatbelts, warning lights in the dash, all unacceptable.
Pilots will file a grievance over a hotel room only having a shower and not a bathtub but will get in transportation outsourced to the lowest bidder with half a million miles on the vehicle and a dumbass driving like he’s in the final lap of the 500 drafting behind the lead car.
Absolutely! Excellent post. Riding on the van is not a hostage situation and I speak up regularly if I am not happy with someone's driving. I actually had a fellow pilot try and tell me I shouldn't tell a driver how to drive, and that we know the danger ahead of time and that it is just part of the job - I wish I was making this up. I couldn't believe it. I have to say I haven't reported these incidents to the hotel committee nearly as often as I should. I try and be professional and polite when I have an issue but have actually gotten pushback from drivers from time to time. I have only heard one other crewmember confront a driver and that was at my last airline, the guy was doing 80 on a farm road in Springfield, Missouri. I have seen the same maintenance issues you have here at Frontier - tire pressure warning lights, brake lights on the dash indicating they need service, brake ABS lights indicating the same, exhaust in the cabin so bad it gave me a headache, worn tires, etc. etc. I'm going to step up my reporting on these issues and encourage my fellow crew members to do the same.