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| Truck driver's heavy loads lead to age discrimination suit
Truck driver's heavy loads lead to age discrimination suit 2/21/08 St. Clair Record, IL Quote:
A 62-year-old truck driver from Clay County, Illinois filed an age discrimination suit in federal court claiming he was terminated from his job and replaced with a younger individual after complaining about hauling overweight loads.
According to the suit filed Feb. 20 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, Howard McDowell, a transit driver for Gordon Food Service, claims he was "outspoken" regarding his opposition to hauling overweight loads nightly from Mt. Vernon to a Sheperdsville, Ken. drop location.
He claims he was told, "[C]arrying overweight loads is just the way things are done around GFS," the complaint states.
McDowell, who was hired in March 2006 and terminated in July 2007, also claims the company took measures to silence him.
According to the suit, a message was relayed to him "that he had better quit complaining about the overweight loads or they would refuse to let him into the Sheperdsville, Kentucky Distribution Center."
"While the number of overweight loads seemed to diminish for a short time after November 2006, by February 2007, McDowell was carrying some of the heaviest loads ever pulled out of the drop location in Mt. Vernon, Illinois," the complaint states.
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