mike68:
I will say one thing about the mishaps I witness, they are a never ending source of entertainment, we do £500,000 a year on damage at my depot so entertainment is never far away, the management don’t seem to care brand new units and trailers wrecked within weeks from new.
Perhaps they are actually the realists, and therefore accept £0.5m a year in damage as the cost of doing business in the way they choose to do it.
The ones who obsess about damage probably just end up spending more money trying to avoid it - they end up paying for trainers and extensive inductions and driving tests, and the associated paperwork and management effort coordinating it all, and they end up hectoring good drivers who are of normal risk and who are taking normal care, but have just been unlucky on a particular day.