I am suing Transport America over wrongful termination.I would like any current or former employee who has first hand experience with TA forcing or trying to force them to drive illegal.This includes being sick,over hours,etc..You will need to file a statement with my lawyer and possibly testify.I cannot promise compensation for your testimony,but can promise satisfaction in "sticking it to TA" for their shady practices.I do not want any false statements.Only factual statements,please.Message me here or leave a post.Thanks in advance.
Need Help with my Lawsuit against Transport America
Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by BigGreg, Apr 28, 2009.
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You should be happy your not there and try to get your DAC report straightened out and if you push it they will blackball to other companies and then your driving career will be over for good. Plus they can postpone the courts til you run out of money paying attorney fees and court costs. Thats what all these companies do unless you have lots of money to throw around.
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chalupa Thanks this.
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same thing happen to me by schneider national.told them twice i could no take loads due to hours.if u need more i can right it out for u
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You'll win anyway. The last time someone contested my unemployment claim I wrote "I moved" on the form and sent it back. I got my unemployment.
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my last company tried to fight my unemployment saying that I had too many violations of Company policies, and that I had been ticketed too many times. I was able to prove line by line that they were lying and what the real reason was that I was terminated. needless to say they didnt fight it for much longer.
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Remember, Harassment is a no, no. If you can prove your harassment via computer msgs, that along with a complaint to DOT, which by the way will be investigated by them, strengthens your case. It opens doors to them getting non-compliant fines that start with the company president to the dispatcher. To which if you do your homework on DOT Fines and who, you can create an ##### nightmare and cost them plenty of money. Payback is a mother, ya know. Thats how you win!! ? And smile!! Trucking is and has always been a cutthroat business to be in. The driver never wins, but he/she can get even!!!!!!
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Have you documented your complaints here ?
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I guess I got lucky in my OTR driving. I never had a load I could not pu and run. Now There is a difference between not having enough hrs to pu a load and not having enough hours to pu the load and deliver it on time. Most drivers refuse loads due to the latter. Which if you work at a forced dp company can nget you a service failure for refusing a load or fired.
I always made sure the company's knew how many hours I had to run each day. If I got a DP that did not allow enough time with the hours I had to drive I pu the load put in a ETA to the receiver and ran my hours. Never got a service failure for not having enough hours to run a load to the destination on time. They either pushed out the window rescheduled the delivery or swapped the load out somewhere to make the appt. I have also had loads that said on the DP not to pu if I could nor deliver on time. Those required some communication with OP's to either get taken off the load or to make sure there was a relay set up.
Now like most veteran drivers I like getting enough miles to make it worth being away from home when I drove OTR so to avoid being on the back burner when good loads came up it is prudent to learn how to make on time delivery when the math does not add up.
Yep my only services failure after umpteen thousands of loads was a Airborne Express load from Ohio to KC with a big snow storm in the middle. Had the hours but not the sleep to deal with the load so I told them no.
like the other poster said TA can terminate you at will and you can quit at anytime as well. Anyone who thinks they are going to drive OTR 100% legal 100% of the time is delusional. If you drive OTR you will drive illegal or you will get the shaft at some point. -
Your union statement at best is bogus. It actually depends on the laws of the particular state you are in if you can be fired without cause. Some states do not allow this, union or not. Even in those states, a wrongful termination can be costly to a company. Even non-union drivers have rights. Again, depending on the state you are in, an arbitrator may handle you situation, or as in the case of some states that do not allow labor disputes such as this, it will be heard in court. Good luck.
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