Orangetxguy |
06-12-2011 03:45 AM |
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Originally Posted by Southron
(Post 498907)
Just because it's in a company's policy, doesn't make it legally binding. Now my company is trying something else to soak their drivers. They're going to start charging drivers $75 everytime we park on the street leading into the lot. Drivers have to park there on weekends because the lot is full and if you are scheduled for time at home, and there's no place to drop your trailer in the lot, you're going to put wherever you can find a space! You been out on the road 3 or 4 weeks, and you want to go home... what else is there to do? This crap happens every weekend. Sometimes another driver will move the trailer you put in the lot to get to his trailer behind it, and so what if he moves your trailer out to the street? Next week, you see on your pay statement that the Company deducted $75 from your check because the trailer you dropped over the weekend was found on the street! You try to explain to them that you didn't put it there, but they think you're lying! Any other driver that drives for Design Transportation will tell you the same! They take every opportunity to screw their drivers out of as much money as they can! And they can make up any bulls**t excuse you deduct money from your check!
One night I had parked at the Flying J in Fairview, TN. I was legally parked, I had shut down about 2 hours before and was sitting in the sleeper watching a movie and having dinner, when another driver hit my truck while trying to park for the night. My company held me liable, charged me with the damages, took the money out of my check and added points to my CDL to boot!
A month later I was at a customer in California getting loaded. There was only one way into their lot. You had to back in from the street, up a hill and then down a driveway to get loaded. When my truck/trailer pivoted, my mud flap bracket caught underneath one of the cross members of my trailer and damaged the mud flap. My company held me liable, charged me with the damages, took the money out of my check and added points to my CDL to boot!
These are just a few examples of how my company rips off their drivers. No matter what happens, or what the circumstances are... the drivers gets screwed.
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There is no way in hell that Design Transport or any other trucking company can add "points" to your CDL. The only people empowered by law to do that, are police officers in the commission of doing their duty.
IF Design Transport is docking your pay for parking on the street, or ANY damages that occur during the course of your employment with them, contact the Labor Board. SUE them and the trucking company who's truck hit the truck you were sitting in at that Flying J. None of it is legal. IF they place comments on your DAC, again, sue them if those comments have nothing to do with your job performance. Parking on a city street or being backed into at a truck stop are common accepted incidents. AND....IF there are "points" on your CDL for those things, and IF you were never issued a citation by an LEO, get a lawyer, and sue the police officer, the judge and the president of Design Transport. A police officer and a judge are the only way Design gets points added to any CDL.
How old are you??? How long have you been driving?? How long have you been working??? Texas law, and the laws of most other states, indemnifies you from damages caused to your employer's property,to their customer's property and to property of others, if such damage was not caused intentionally, during the course of performing your assigned duty. Hell....even backwards Oregun has an indemnification law now.
sorry....rant over
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