The WT Trucking Outfit Has Violations

by cattails 9 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • cattails
    cattails

    The WT Trucking outfit is called Kingdom Support Services, Inc.

    I've met the brother who was a driver for KSS and he seemed quite nice, but he was like he had too much caffeine. He was on his way down from Canada with a load of construction stuff and headed back to NY. I did a search for the name of the company on the Tractor Trailer's door and found this DOT information.

    This link shows their DOT records.

    http://www.quicktransportsolutions.com/truckingcompany/newyork/kingdom-support-services-inc-usdot-973901.php

    There's some violations but way lower than the National thresh-hold of violations. Take a look below:

    Kingdom Support Services Inc. Safety Measurement System Data

    Last Updated June 2015
    Total Number of Inspections for the measurement period (24 months)47
    Total Number of Driver Inspections for the measurment period47
    Total Number of Driver Inspections containing at least one Driver Out-of-Service Violation2
    Total Number of Vehicle Inspections for the measurement period34
    Total Number of Vehicle Inspections containing at least one Vehicle Out-of-Service violation8
    Kingdom Support Services Inc Unsafe Truck Driving Data
    Number of inspections with at least one Unsafe Driving BASIC violation1
    Unsafe Driving BASIC Roadside Performance Measure Value.13
    Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Roadside Performance PercentileLess than 3 driver inspections with violations
    Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold)N
    Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months)N
    Unsafe Truck Driving Overall BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N

    Kingdom Support Services Inc Fatigued Truck Driving Data
    Number of inspections with at least one Hours-of-Service BASIC violation2
    Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance BASIC Roadside Performance measure value.21
    Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Roadside Performance PercentileLess than 3 driver inspections with violations
    Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold)N
    Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N
    Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N
    Kingdom Support Services Inc Truck Driver Fitness Data
    Number of inspections with at least one Driver Fitness BASIC violation1
    Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance measure value.2
    Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance Percentile0
    Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold)N
    Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months)N
    Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N

    Kingdom Support Services Inc Controlled Substances and Alcohol Data
    Number of inspections with at least one Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC violation0
    Number of inspections with at least one Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC violation0
    Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Roadside Performance
    PercentileIndustry050100Industry Threshold:80
    Kingdom Support Services Inc PercentileTrucking Industry Threshold
    		0
    Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold)N
    Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months)N
    Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N
    Kingdom Support Services Inc Vehicle Maintenance Data
    Number of inspections with at least one Vehicle Maintenance BASIC violation14
    Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside Performance measure value1.7
    Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside Performance
    PercentileThreshold050100Industry Threshold:80
    Kingdom Support Services Inc PercentileTrucking Industry Threshold
    		16
    Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold)N
    Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months)N
    Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months)N
  • oppostate
    oppostate

    Good find Cattails!

    Nothing too serious there, the report isn't bad, and probably a whole lot better than a lot of secular companies.

    It's to be expected that the WT would keep the vehicle in reasonably good working order and the brother who drives it would be in dread of ever having a major violation on his record. What, with the layoffs at Bethel and all.

  • under the radar
    under the radar

    That's actually a very good record. Of course, it needs to be viewed in the light of:

    (1) Not EVERYTHING the Society does is underhanded and duplicitous. Heck, even the Nazis dressed sharp, created the VW bug, built the Autobahn, etc. Of course, that doesn't even come CLOSE to ameliorating the evil teachings they promote and the real damage they do to ordinary people. Hmmm... is there a parallel here?

    (2) The Society has powerful financial reasons to comply with trucking regulations. There are no customers demanding refunds for late shipments, no drivers or mechanics clamoring for overtime. Fines for repeated or egregious violations can be quite heavy. And if, as I believe, they are self-insured, any losses from accidents and/or lawsuits therefrom could be very expensive. It's just good sense to play by the rules. Nobody ever said the Society was stupid with their money.

    That said, I believe the Society as it exists now is driven by two overriding prime directives:

    (1) Protect their financial interests through the use of shell corporations, secrecy and coverups anywhere exposure could cost them money, obfuscating the lines of authority by having positions such as pioneers and ministerial servants appointed locally or by traveling overseers instead of by the branch (so they can deny liability or responsibility for their actions), publishing self-serving written instructions that seem to establish one policy (reporting child abuse, for example) while verbally giving off-the-record conflicting instructions about the real way it's to be done, pressuring those injured on Society property or projects not to file lawsuits or even request medical expenses from them but instead to use their own personal health insurance, claiming that an individual's field service is a personal ministry and not a required or sponsored activity (so they can deny liability or responsibility for anything that might happen), and on and on...

    (2) Accumulate as much wealth as possible as quickly as possible while not appearing to do so. The recent money grab and land grab is a spectacular example of this greed. Most regular JW's don't even realize what happened. And fewer still have any idea of its magnitude. They were screwed over royally and don't even know it. And there are other underhanded schemes like determining the amount a circuit is to donate to the Society from the proceeds of a given assembly in order to guarantee there will be a "deficit" early on the last day and thus manipulate the "brothers" into contributing more, pressuring members into using only certain hotels so the Society can get kickbacks, making individuals buy their own trolley carts and furnish their own literature and then demanding that any contributions be turned over in full, etc., etc.

    The Society is run by lawyers and accountants. Any pretense at a "spiritual" purpose is a sideshow, a distraction to hide what it's really about.

  • JWdaughter
    JWdaughter
    Drivers or companies can be totally out of business with too many violations. It really doesn't take much. They have a great record. Good for the drivers a and maintenance guys.
  • Mad Irishman
    Mad Irishman

    I don't know about you, but I got a few speeding tickets in my day when I was a JW. Who didn't?

    I often find it a strange paradox that people post crimes and misdemeanors of JW's, whether they really have the truth or not, like they are supposed to be perfect citizens. Their rate of crime, divorce, murder, etc. is minuscule compared to society's in general, but even if they had the truth there would still be outliers out there who did terrible things. So I'm not sure what that is supposed to prove when you take the emotion out of it. King David committed murder and adultery. Satan was an Angel. Judas was an apostle. So if some JW got speeding tickets or did something against the law what does that prove?

    Everyone is human and cable of doing something wrong no matter what side you're viewing it on--from their side or from the outside. I think sometimes we go overboard trying to find every infraction committed by a JW like somehow there is something to glean from it.

  • _Morpheus
    _Morpheus
    Honestly, as someone who has to report daily under FMCR, this report looks pretty sweet. Nothing at all of a serious nature. Every inspection by DOT is gonna get you ding here and there, its their job to find something so they always do. This is just petty record keeping stuff mostly. Hours of service violations are often drivers not logging correctly, a driver fitness violation is probably somebody who forgot to get a physical and fhe Basic violation may be a simple speeding ticket... It looks like much more than it is. Most trucking companies would bribe the dot man for a report that clean
  • Simon
    Simon
    I expect, as with most vehicle laws, that it's practically impossible to be 100% compliant with the laws 100% of the time. We all violate traffic rules at some point. I don't know how serious these things are but welcome people's opinions on the matter who have direct experience.
  • JWdaughter
    JWdaughter
    I was trained a little about the legal requirements to stay properly certified with the DOT. It's tough and they are doing great. If you get too many, they can pull your trucks/drivers off the road. Basically anything that happens on the road is going to ding the driver, even if a private driver causes an accident (which is not right, many individuals are really stupid driving around big rigs). A certain amount of respect should be given to commercial drivers with excellent records. Its not a 'given'.
  • OrphanCrow
    OrphanCrow
    MadIrishman:Their rate of crime, divorce, murder, etc. is minuscule compared to society's in general,...

    That is an cultic myth.

    Divorce rates, for one, within the JWs, actually are equal to or slightly exceed the national average.

    http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/divorce.php

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    @ Mad Irishman...

    It's the context.

    The WTS touts itself as being inherently superior to any and all other religions and institutions, simply by virtue of being "God's Earthly Organization".

    However, uncountable individuals have been harmed or victimized as a direct result of that demonstrably untrue claim... therefore, they deserve to have their flaws exposed for the world to see, and thusly, have the untruth of that claim exposed.

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