Advice re: termination for new driver

[bjn74ladyotr]

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[Uturn2001]

No good deed ever goes unpunished eh?

Just out of curiosity how much time elapsed between your team mate having booze on the truck and you turning the bum in?

On to your problem. All I can do is tell you to keep making phone calls to companies that hire with 6 months experience.

I do not know everyone you have talked to but you might try Ozark and Knight if you have not already.

If all else fails and you find out Swift will give you a job then go there for around 6 months, make the best of it, then start looking for another job if it turns out to be unbearable for you.

[bjn74ladyotr]

thanks for some advice and direction and to answer your question, within an hour safety knew of the problem on the truck.

[Evinrude]

I turned my team partner into safety for having alcohol on the truck.


You ratted out you own partner... You got what you deserve.. lol. I won't want to be in the trenches with you.

[Raafi]

you snitched on your partner, and now YOU are suffering?


there IS a God

no, i am not condoning alcohol, but nobody, not even a company likes a snitch

you should have just duked it out with your team mate, got back in the truck, and when you returned to the yard asked for a different team mate, and when they asked why, say that he smelled or something

[LOAD IT]

bjn did you call that company in battle creek?

[bjn74ladyotr]

I almost did today. I tried researching them on the internet first. I plan on calling tomorrow. thanks load it!

[LOAD IT]

I almost did today. I tried researching them on the internet first. I plan on calling tomorrow. thanks load it!

schilli.com

[bjn74ladyotr]

I just called Schilli. being terminated and involvement of alcohol, I must wait five years and demonstrate a clean record.

[Evinrude]

I just called Schilli. being terminated and involvement of alcohol, I must wait five years and demonstrate a clean record.

[bjn74ladyotr]

smile all you want. If I had to do it over, I would not change the fact of turning in a driver who has the nerve to bring alcohol into a commercial vehicle. And my circle of friends agree. But then my circle of friends are educated, God fearing people!

[jokerpop]

I was fired from usxpress in June. I turned my team partner into safety for having alcohol on the truck. They told me I was just as responsible, I should have known and not allowed it unto the truck.
Crete, CFI, JB HUnt, CEladon will not hire me. They are saying due to their liability insurance and the fact I was teminated is why. A few of the companies told me to go to a company like swift-who would hire me and afater driving for 3 more mths. they could hire me. I HATE swift. I have 7 mths driving experience and my first 4 mths I was with them.
ANy adive anyone could give me I would appreciate. I am from MI and good jobs of any kind are almost impossible to find.
Thanks for your time.

Have a look at TRL. They may team you up.

[Fredog]

I just called Schilli. being terminated and involvement of alcohol, I must wait five years and demonstrate a clean record.

I believe there is more to the story than you told, if I turn in my neighbor for robbing a bank, does that mean I am involved in bank robbery?

[flood]

I believe there is more to the story than you told, if I turn in my neighbor for robbing a bank, does that mean I am involved in bank robbery?

i believe you are right fredog.. i was at our USX in medway, oh. when a lady turned in her NEW team driver for having beer in the truck and all thay did was walk HIM out and had her write up what happened for the record, she was back on the road the next day...

[Evinrude]

To see a Rat get canned, is too funny for me,,,your cracken me up... Cry a little more..

[Binzo]

I'm surprised Celadon wouldn't take you. They are pretty easy going about stuff. Try USATruck, I know their equipment sucks but at least you'll be driving and I've heard they'll run crap out of you. So money won't be an issue.

I'm in Michigan also so I know how bad the economy sucks here. Get a hold of DAC and MVR also and find out exactly what they put on there. That way you know what to tell a perspective employer.

[4roses]

You know I totaly agree with Bizno

Get a hold of DAC and MVR also and find out exactly what they put on there. That way you know what to tell a perspective employer.

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[GMAN]

It doesn't make sense that a company would terminate a driver who turns in another one for having alcohol in the truck. If what you are saying is true it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. I would think that a company would be anxious to know about a driver drinking in one of their trucks. There is way too much liability for them not to be interested.

[Windwalker]

It doesn't make sense that a company would terminate a driver who turns in another one for having alcohol in the truck. If what you are saying is true it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. I would think that a company would be anxious to know about a driver drinking in one of their trucks. There is way too much liability for them not to be interested.

I agree. The liability factor, indeed. I would want to know YESTERDAY if I had a driver in my truck that had alcohol in the truck with him. Either drugs or alcohol. Look at the driver in Spokane a while back. How much property did he damage? The company gets to pay for it, even if through their insurance. But, like someone else said earlier, check your DAC and MVR.

And while we're at it, those of you that are "asthmatic"...
Inhalers, such as PRIMATINE MIST contain alcohol. It goes into the lungs, but not into the blood stream. If you use an inhaler, then have reason to blow up the balloon, keep in mind that up to 4 hours after you use the inhaler, you may blow a DUI. I know someone that is in that situation right now.

Is it possible that your co-driver may have told the company that you were in on it? Since you turned him in, he implicated you? See what your DAC says.

[bjn74ladyotr]

Thanks for everyone's continued input. While I was still at the terminal and told I was suspended, pending an investigation, I asked the head of safety, why? did my team partner say that the alcohol was mine? I was told that he could not tell me what was said by my co-driver. Which made sense.
I tried to get some info as to what type of investigation they would do. I told the head of safety that I don't drink and I never have, and asked if he needed some names, etc. of references from my home town. I could tell by the way he was acting, the investigation was already done. I am not sure what my team partner could have said, or if it even mattered. The company could not prove whose wine it was, but knew that it was on the truck that I also drove.
I have my DAC. It only says terminated, satisfactory work record and would not re-hire. I have talked to human resources at USXpress and the person in Chatanooga, who officially after an investigation (so I am told), terminated me. I tried to talk to safety in Oklahoma City ( where I got off the truck) and was told the head person (who I had called and told about the wine) no longer works for USXpress. So the matter is done.
I was an at will employee, in June I had a very competent attorney look at the facts, wrongful termination does not apply. I worked under an at will contract. They had the right and so did I to quit or be terminated for any reason.
I actually found a company, Knight in Indianapolis,who believed me about my involvement and went to orientation last Monday. I failed the driving test, due to shifting and backing. I thought I did okay shifting, just needed to get a little more practice, since I had not shifted since last Nov. because USXpress has automatics, but I totally agree about my poor backing with one owner standing besides his truck and watching! I would recomend Knight to any male drivers. I was impressed with their operations.
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