Usually when a trucker falsifies his logs to drive over his allowable hours of service, then falls asleep at the wheel and gets in an accident, he is the target of the lawsuit. But this trucker was the one bringing the lawsuit. And a jury just awarded him $80 million.
On May 3rd of 2015, Lauro Lozano had just gotten home after dropping off a load in San Antonio, TX when his phone rang. His boss called him and told him to get back out on the road and pick up another load.
According to court documents, when Lozano told him that he was out of hours and would need to take his 34 hour reset, his boss told him to falsify his log books. Fearing for his job, Lozano did what he was told and got back to the yard to pick up his truck at around 5:00am.
On May 6th, Lozano fell asleep at the wheel and rear-ended another truck. The crash left him with debilitating injuries including a crushed pelvis and broken ribs.
During the trial, other truckers testified that they had also been pushed by the carrier owner to falsify their logs.
Almost exactly four years after the accident, a jury in Texas found that Lozano’s carrier was responsible for the crash because they pushed him to falsify his logs and caused him to be on the road while fatigued. The jury found that Lozano was entitled to a $5 million payment for pain and suffering as well as an additional $75 million in punitive or exemplary damages.
Damn, pesky regulations. Cant work people into the ground. SMH.
But elogs are evil!! Bring back paper logs!
Glad someone sees it the way I do!!!
👍 I agree on this statement for different reasons but it’s the ill-responsible drivers that would abuse the paper-log as well as the company like this one that was mentioned in this story.
It’s not the paper-log that it needs to change to but rather the hours of operations and DOT regulations and treatment of drivers by the regulators and the State Patrol officers.
This happened in May of 2015, so pretty sure he was on paper.
Wonder if Lozano’s carrier’s hiring?🤤
Lol, me too
Lol
Almost certainly that company is out of business
Lmao!!
Lmao@ Jay
My company does that all the time we dont even use hrs of service.
We work at times 5.00 am till 9 or 10 that night then back at it at 5.00 in the morning.
We dont do 10 off then back to work.
We are i.cs but treated like employees
Well, then you’re a complete idiot for putting uo with that crap.
totally agree,, then why do driver’s work go quit and go work for a company that goes by the law.. It’s the driver’s who like working this way and then later blames companies for it . When you tell a driver not to cheat and go by the law but they do it anyway because they want to be home quicker .
That’s your fault
Sorry, but this driver made the decision to let them bully him. He should have said no, and if they fired him, moved on after filing a complaint with the DOT on the company. You don’t need to work for a company like this.
My bet is that this decision will be overturned, or modified so that the victims families get the money. This driver does not deserve it.
Agreed. Hate this “You are responsible for those that are too stupid to make their own decisions” mentality that is popping up now.
Popping up now?? how old are you??
Story only stated that he rear ended another truck. Never said anything about other vehicles or people envolved. The only victim would have been the driver of the other truck.
Or just simply rear-ended a parked truck on the side of the road?
It’s called coersion that made him take the trip.
Exactly
It’s called have a spine. It’s also called take responsibility for your actions.
Really? How about companies take responsibility for their actions? All you super truckers that blame the driver and brag about how you wouldn’t allow yourself to be bullied are full of crap. I can name six companies from UDA truck to Total transport and USxpress and Celadon that have personally tried to force me to run loads despite being fatigued or not in compliance with HOS. Drivers mean nothing to these companies, and driver managers are jerks trying to make a name for themself by threatening drivers with loss of wages and intimidation tactics..it works for them and they don’t care who they hurt or kill. Start regulating companies instead of the drivers and you will see less of this..go to the source of what’s wrong with this industry.
To What “victims” do you refer? Maybe we read different stories.?
Yeah but now he doesn’t have to work ever again. I’ll take a few cracked ribs for 80 mil
…….and a crushed pelvis.
Yeah, but…$80M!!
How far do you have to drive for that?
Don’t forget, the lawyers will take about 35% (if not more) of that settlement.
Then taxes!!
No taxes on these types of suits except for lost wages.
For 80 million I’ll take 10% and they can have the rest to choke on. Lol!
I’d happily give them 35%!
About 10 life time lol
sorry but the jury sending a clear message
as a driver i wouldn’t do it i’d tell the owner to go fly a kite
and contact a lawyer and report the company to the labor board and dot
i got off the road few years ago and went back into management and i never allow my drivers to violate the HOS i don’t care if they are 15 min away for the terminal i will send another driver to rescue him
maybe the driver has a poor record , who knows
one thing for sure he doesn’t need to work any more
Crushed pevis. Probly never have sex again. Still want the money??? Lol
Money worshipers never live happy lives. Your body is a temple.
Yeah, don’t be crushing that old “PEVIS”. Lol
Into truck in front of u
No idea if the amount awarded the driver was fair – it’s hard to understand the crazy high amounts some juries award people – but I think it’s a bit naive to say the driver shouldn’t have allowed the employer to talk him into running illegally. Of course the driver should have pushed back/said no but most people try to please employers by being “good team players”. I don’t like the inflexibility of HOS rules but, at some point, carriers and shippers are going to have to start valuing the time of drivers and not “asking” drivers to run when it’s unsafe.
He was forced to work. He feared for his job. can’t you read?
It’s just a job , is not like he fear for his life. He can find easy another crapy company like this. I think is all about being greedy
Agree, he is not a victim but an accomplice
I have worked for several cr@ppy carriers over a two year period after the Ol’ Lady had emergency open heart surgery following a heart attack.
I was there to take care of her after discharge… Carriers couldnt care less
I am now having difficulty finding a decent job as I have had “Too many” jobs according to some employers.
Drivers are d@mned if you do and d@mned if you dont.
Call Lessors inc.@1(651)789-9227
If mvr is half descent.
67mph trks
E-logs
No equipment over 350k mi.
Fairly personal dispatch.
6 days home,for 30 days out.
Longer than 6days home,requires cleaning out the trk,but they almost always welcome you back if you leave on good terms.
Say Matt(way02) sent you,or not.
I could get a bonus,but don’t care about it one way or another.
I’ve been with then 7yrs.out of 22yrs driving.
I wouldn’t say they are the best out there,but they are far from being the worst.
I hate to bust your bubble!! But if you hold a class A CDL and you cannot find a driving job you either have no experience or a terrible MVR
Agreed. The driver is accountable for his decisions
Under the surface transportation act, enhanced for drivers,
that is called harassment.
Report it and get the other drivers to report it. OSHA will need
proof and you have a limited time to report it.
A class action lawsuit would have been better than the ensuing
crash and injuries. The other drivers testified.
What victims families All was mentioned he rear endeared another truck. But I do agree with your one point he had no business driving.
Not sure if you have ever driven a big truck but companies do this all the time to drivers. People have to make a living and you can’t just FIND another job at a drop of a hat. Companies don’t care about their drivers but just getting the loads where they need to go so the companies can make their money. Filing with DOT doesn’t do any good for the drivers that no longer have a job or in this case can’t work due to injuries. The families of any people involved that died should receive money from the COMPANIES that make the drivers continue to push in order to keep their jobs. Yes, this driver could have refused but he wouldn’t receive work or wouldn’t have a job. So with this being said, are you going to pay the bills for the drivers that take your advise or listen to your statement?? I seriously doubt it‼️‼️‼️ So, until you’re in the same shoes and have to make the decision for you and your family on whether you will eat and pay your bills don’t make a statement that you have no knowledge of.
Well said
Very well said
Victims families ? He’s the only kinda victim… no one died. He rear ended another truck. Didn’t say there were any other injuries.
Agreed, it is the driver’s responsibility to be rested and they are protected from coercion. That said, I’m glad this company lost 75 million for coercion. But, I just wish a company could lose 75 million for coercion before accidents.
I tried the Motor Carrier Safety Commission, result wasn’t worth my time! About as bad as OSHA!
You are very right. To me this guy was stupid
What victim family, did you even read the article?
A filed complaint that wont have a monetary settlement doesn’t get the bills paid.
Evidently you didn’t read the story. He rear ended another truck and injured himself.
No clue 🤯
Victim’s families will no doubt bring their own suit. I’d take that bet.
What victims families? He hit another truck. No other cars were involved. No fatalities. Only injuries sustained were by the driver that brought the suit.
What victims? I think you’re adding info that is not in the story…
Why read the whole story and comment based on facts? That’s not how it’s done these days, didn’t you know that?
What Mandatory 34 hour restart ?
It’s not mandatory, you can work off of recap.
Not if you zeroout
He was out of hours obviously.
You will eventually require a restart because you do not run the same number of hours each day you WILL run out of recap.
Are you kidding me? These drivers now days don’t know what a recap is! They’re all rookies and driving schools don’t teach the old logging techniques. That’s why I had a guy today tell me I wouldn’t get any hours back after the 2 hour portion of an 8/2. I was like yes I will. I will get back whatever I have not used.
That’s not true. I was taught about HOS in class. I also think the ELD is a joke. I came off home time and was up all day waiting for a load. Finally got one that picked up at midnight. Went picked up the load and drove my hours..9. So legally I could drive but physically shouldn’t have. But being a parent came in handy. Not getting enough sleep and still functioning. Hopefully the new rules coming out in June will help.
80 million, that’s ridiculous, no one and I mean no one is worth that much.
Who do they think pays for that, don’t say insurance because I pay dearly for insurance which goes up even though i have never made a claim.
You haters can kiss where the sun doesn’t shine on the behind! Heretofore, the TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY seemingly haven’t had to answer to anyone, and this lawsuit PROVES IT! It proved that they think they can force you to forego FMCSA hours of service rules and regulations with IMPUNITY! They’ve gotten away with MURDER, until this lawsuit CLEARLY EXPOSED them for what they’ve been getting away with, all this time! Apparently, the TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY is literally swimming in dough, and so it’s about time that a poor old truck driver- victim-of-the-transportation industry step to the plate, and expose them!
Exactly right its about damn time drivers start standing up to company bullies and for these crooked outlaw companies to be held accountable!
Being awarded 80 million and receiving 80 million is two different worlds
Very true , the small carrier probably dont’ have any money anyway and will file bankruptcy. These driver’s make choices they have 100’s of jobs to choose from so if you are not happy with your current company or if they are asking to cheat just QUIT and go next door as there are 100’s of job’s waiting for you , but driver’s want to cheat that’s the real truth, small carriers are getting run down from these wnna be driver’s who are rulling right now, so untruth out there.
He’ll receive the payment when pigs fly. That will be fought on appeal, then reduced, all while the trucking company reorganizes as a different carrier and transfers it’s assets to the new company. Then he’ll have to go back to court trying to link the two companies, and a few years later, after they get the insurance company they had when the accident happened, he MAY get a portion of the $1,000,000 liability they carried, after the lawyers fees, he might have enough to buy a cheeseburger.
U mean a taco
Sorry to say if you’re a driver in this situation you know that at the time you’re more worried about your job then you are about reporting the company to DOT which in turn goes without notice. So yes he was bullied he would have lost his job. This employer would have given him a badd reference probably wouldn’t have gotten another decent job so he did the best he Could.
Sadly, I have personal experience with having to file a report to the DOT for log falsification and coercion against a former employer. Additionally, at the behest of my legal counsel, I also submitted highly documented complaints to the Inspector General. My documentation included text and Qualcomm messages from my dispatcher telling me to not worry about HOS and that he would take care of it. When I remained obstinate, he threatened to suspend me for a week if I couldn’t finish my loads. After I began driving my QC updated, and I had several more hours. He had gone in and changed every instance of on-duty to off duty. I provided my logs, with the evidence that my status had been changed. This is what happened when I did so:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier South Carolina Division
Safety Administration 1835 Assembly Street, Suite 1008
Columbia, SC 29201-2430
Complaint ID: 100110888
6/20/2018
****** *******
**** * **** ** **
****, ** *****
Dear Mr. or Ms. ****** *******:
Thank you for your 06/19/2018 complaint alleging noncompliance of G & P TRUCKING
COMPANY INC. This letter confirms receipt of your correspondence. Your complaint number is
*********. Please refer to this number when submitting additional information or checking on the
status of your complaint. To check on the status of your complaint, contact the South Carolina
Division Office at 803-765-5414.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) takes seriously allegations of violations
of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, Hazardous Materials Regulations, and Federal
Motor Carrier Commercial Regulations. The FMCSA will investigate the allegations in your
complaint. It may be necessary to contact you for additional information during this investigation.
Prosecution of coercion or harassment complaints will require disclosure of your identity.
The FMCSA will use its full enforcement authority to penalize entities that coerce or harass drivers.
Drivers have additional protections under the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health
Administration’s (OSHA) whistleblower protection laws enacted as part of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act (49 U.S.C. 31105). You may file a complaint against a motor carrier,
shipper, receiver, or transportation intermediary if you are retaliated against for filing a coercion or
harassment complaint, and such entities may be subject to enforcement action by OSHA. For more
information, you may visit OSHA’s web site at: http://www.whistleblower.gov .
We will inform you of the findings once the investigation is complete. Thank you for your interest
in highway safety.
Sincerely yours,
Chris M Hartley
Division Administrator or State Director
I redacted my contact information and my case number. But, that was the only communication that I have received. In addition to not being contacted by the investigators, I have attempted to follow the instructions, to check the status of my complaint, on several occasions. Today being the most recent. As per usual, I am forwarded to the voice mail of someone that I can only assume died. The moral of this story is that they don’t go after companies unless something tragic happens and leaves them no recourse. So, I have decided that if I ever find myself in such a situation again, I’ll at least keep an eye out for some grave misfortune. Ideally, I could take out an overpass or perhaps a smallish suspension bridge. 🙄
I digress. To my awareness, the only thing that happened as a result of my actions is that I was terminated the very next time I showed up to the terminal 3 minutes late. The dispatcher and head of safety, whom I reported my dispatcher to at first, are both still with the company, to my knowledge. I’m glad I escaped, though.
Oops, it seems that I missed redaction of one instance of the case number.
He was out of hours obviously.
Sorry, Lozano is a spineless worm who should have said no. He went along to get along. My employer and the dispatchers know to not even think about calling me on my downtime and be happy they have in me a driver who gives them 60 hours/week, shows up on time for every run, every time. He deserves nothing and should be glad he is not in jail.
Okay, I’ve never worked for a place that bad. However, I am ready if that ever happens! You don’t say anything to your boss, you call DOT in that state and request an officer at your truck then meet them at your truck. Then explain why and call your boss again on speaker phone so you have a witness. Additionally, record everything with another source. If they do it to you, they do it to others too and that’s your opportunity to be superman and be a hero!!!
I AGREE,The Driver is old enough to know better…Common sense.And Nobody can force Anybody to Drive When They are Tired and or Out Of Hours of Service…Its That Simple…
Good for you Lozano. You don’t have to work anymore and put up with all those regs anymore.
In a court of law , justice may not be served but law practiced. Law is an activity that is practiced never mastered.
“The legal profession is as old and the world’s oldest profession – and just about as honorable.” Posted on a lawyer’s wall on a full sized poster.
He should have put some good crank up his nose and he wouldn’t have fell asleep.
Well sounds like it was a smaller company. He’ll be lucky to see that much money. With limited liability and appeals. They will probably file bankruptcy or never be able to pay lawsuit. Best scenario they can auction of equipment and property but I highly doubt he’ll ever see even a million.
The driver is obviously in the wrong for allowing the company to bully him. He should have said no.
On the other foot we as drivers are regulated to pieces. The companies have the power to break our ability to work and punish us for saying no by placing a bad report against us on our report. Just one false report no matter how true or untrue will ensure we have a very hard time finding another job. Once false information has been applied to your report it is almost impossible to get corrected or removed.
Perhaps he should get some pay for pain and suffering but we also need to make legislators aware of how this manipulation works. Reporting companies such as HireRight need to be dissolved
Try having the DMV tarnish your record without reason. Got a “safety” violation on my MVR from July of 17. Lol! I was never pulled over or issued a warning or ticket in July of 07 and I have my 12 years old daughter to back me up. But yet it’s still there.
17**
Yes, it is odd and unfair that a company can put anything they want on your record, and you have no recourse. There is no “due process “ to dispute or remove inaccurate info once it is placed on your record. Certainly a case of “ Guilty ‘cause I (the company) say so.”
This needs to be addressed.
Good example of the dumbing of america.
Great time to be a lawyer, they are making fortunes off of stupidity.
This settlement is Absurd!
Spread it around a little.
Lots of us getting screwed out here!
It will get appealed for the next 100 years.
To the older OTR drivers: Remember those non-stop 24 – 30 hour jaunts over highways that were no better than cow pasture trails? Maybe it was the roads that kept us awake or the banquet of caffeine pills (Bennies) or possibly the threat of losing one’s job that kept us going.
I can remember one trip in a dilapidated, 1954 Autocar with only about 10% brakes from New York city to Chicago and back with two four hour breaks in a sleeper that was about the size of a coffin. Oh yes, the entire cab smelled like a barrel of burned oil.
I can’t remember clearly, I think it had the old Autocar *Blue Streak*, gasoline engine. I can remember four over four tranny. Only one wiper worked, with no wipers if you were pulling up a grade.
Then I read of this driver being awarded $80 mil. for driving six or seven hours over his legal HOS?
My my, how far dumbed down we are…..
Good memories bud!!
Why was the company name not mentioned?
He didn’t find a place to sleep for three days? I know parking is tight in some place but that I don’t buy for a nano-second.
How can new drivers learn which companies NOT to work for? Do we have to search for lawsuits like this against potential employers?
The only thing wrong with this is the driver didn’t have the balls to tell dispatch “ no I’m not doing it” if he was too fatigued to drive then he is too fatigued you can’t argue that.
Good luck collecting
With the number of trucking jobs available to drivers with a clean record, switching from a crappy carrier to another should amount to little more than a week or two of inconvenience/living off savings.
I can understand penalizing the company for coercing drivers to break the regulations on threat of their job. That’s wrong.
But ultimately you are responsible for your own actions. Rewarding someone with such a settlement for essentially breaking the law is a horrendous precedent to set.
This whole victimhood Olympics/others are responsible for the choices I make mindset is one of the most socio-toxic ideologies out there.
So who was the company? Detailed reporting I must say.
Ever heard of the word NO? NO I out of hours..NO Im very tired..NO Im not going to do it..if you dont know what the word NO is ask your little kid…they say NO all the time…maybe they are smarter that some that think they are adults..
a lot of people assuming that the company can pay out a judgement like that.
And Trump is getting rid of regulations made to protect people and the environment.
what company is this? sounds like they are hiring
This driver is very lucky that there was not any anyone else hurt or a fatality involved or he would most likely be in prison!! NO matter what you are responsible for your decisions…
Im a swift driving veteren i have almost 2 months behind the wheel plus training time this is why the new eld is such a great thing i never drive if im tired and im so highly paid i dont need to drive over my 11 hours a day im making almost twice as much as i did at McDonald’s my job before swift see its all you old guys that try to cheat and bitch about everything that ruin it for a great experienced driver as myself that guy is lucky he didnt kill anybody
thanks for the laugh!
I see you drive a truck (claim you do, at least) because you failed basic grammar and punctuation classes in grade school, right? In all of that screed there is only ONE piece of punctuation.
Swift veteran. 2 months behind the wheel. Good luck sir
I’ve never met someone who could get away with running 100% legal. The company always wears you down in the end in my experience.
People who say, “You don’t have to work there”, every place I’ve worked has been the same, and I was lucky to get those jobs. I don’t know what idyllic world you live in, but throw me a rope cause I want to live there too.
Sorry…the buck stops with the driver…the company should be in trouble for what they did, but the responsibility still goes to the driver. Just say no…if you say no enough they’ll stop pushing so hard…my life is worth more than ANYONES Load! Settlement=0………accident fault=100% driver!
I drove for a large company with blue trucks, and quite often at the end of my 14 hour day, load planners and dispatch go “hey this driver has an hour and a half left, let’s send him to a grocery warehouse that’ll take 5 hours to live load him, and questionable overnight parking!”. This always happened after getting myself settled in for the night too. So after the 2nd or 3rd time of that, I finally said no more.
Well, they’ll get you for that. You’ll start finding yourself deprioritized and your miles getting less and less, and eventually make it so you get fed up and quit. I like to call it a “silent firing”.
So even when you keep your best interests and safety in mind, even the biggest carriers will try to force you out like that.
You are right on, they just start giving you the crappy loads and starve you out with no money loads, until you quit, or have an accident, or tell them off so they can fire you.
10-4 on that it’s also called starving you out been there.. Sorry Company’s.
That’s a catch 22, I believe a person shouldn’t speak in a situation if u not experienced it. Especially, if u don’t know his situation.
HOS VIOLATION…CASE CLOSED. PEROOD.
NO FURTHER COMMENT.
So, if he had hit a car, and killed children, I guess the jury would have given him $200 million!!
That’s a good point!
There is no mandatory 34 hour restart.
Yes, exactly. He could just sleep 10 hrs, rest and use the recap. This judge just used to play golf with the lawyers….
Are you kidding me. My job makes me do something that is illegal and they take responsibility? Count me in! I am leaving the yard and plowing straight into the first pole I see. So let’s see $80 mil minus lawyer fees leaves $52 mil (errrr) oh and those dang taxes (I will have to pay a lot due to my new tax bracket) say 50% equals $26 mil (errr) don’t forget that lavish $5 mil dollar home my wife wants leaving $21 mil (errr) and the list goes on and on… you know what? You guys are right. I should do the right thing and tell my employer that I’m not going to do it. Sure I will lose my job that pays me 46 cpm but you know what. There are tons of other companies that will hire me, even if I have to start back at 38 cpm. I will be back up to 46 cpm in no time. At least I was safe and made sure that my former employer still has the ability to make another driver take that load for me. I have to go because I shouldn’t be interrupting my 10 hrs in my 72” prison.
So from the 3rd to the 6th he never stopped and slept.
What’s the name of the company
JNM Express, broker Owen Freight logistics and Anca transport, each will pay 25 million
Good for the driver. Too bad he had to get hurt.
They are to many bs people talking about how they will do or act, but this are the ones that do all kind of things to keep that job, look like that was a common practice on this carrier to push the drivers over the limit , no ones want to be in a accident, and some times specially if you are the provider on the family you will be afraid to lose the job, thanks god he still a live and for the carrier they got what they deserved for pushing over the limit.
all this crap about companies making you driver over hours. but yet,everyone was crying about elogs. drivers are so full of shit. i spent 30yrs on the road. you know who made me drive over hours. ME! Idrove until i was tired. Not when someone else thought i should. If you were tired and didnt stop. You were the problem. Old school ways ,you drove until you were tired. I cant sleep if im not tired. So keep the elogs and the trucking industry. Glad to be out of it. People cant speak english,run over and kill construction workers. And,they are back driving next week.. I could go on and on. If your happy on 500.00 a week. Being led by officials,hanging out where drivers are carrying 3rd world diseases. and are not made to vaccinate. and are not made to pass the same physicals. have fun,enjoy.
Have to agree. When I am driving let me drive. When I get tired. I want to stop and sleep. @3 hrs and I am good for a long time again.
Have my hrs end 150 miles from home? You demand I pull over and rest half a day? BUT once I get out of the truck I can hop in 1 ton, 30′ 5th wheel head out for 18+ hr drive legally….
A half hr over hours I am illegal. But going a added 20 hrs in any POV I’m legal…
I learned how to do multiple logs within 3 hrs driving team. (I was student driver.). At that time anyone takes written test, passed… You could drive with a licenced driver “instructing” you.
Well in a hr he was sound asleep in sleeper. ( he is supposed to be awake, on his hours “instructing”).
So we left half a day earlier then we did, then a full day earlier (seperate logs). As trip progressed.
Never had to do elogs. Exempt now.
This guy. Take the load, pull off decent truck stop when tired. Sleep. As you likely have tracking. “Fake minor equipment repair” that you could fix yourself. Turn off cell till ready to roll.
That’s a scandal, not justice served. The other driver 2 weeks ago got only…$35.00 for being forced to work during his 1/2 hr mandatory break! In this case he just had LAWYERS WHO KNEW THE JUDGE FROM THE SAME LODGE. HUH.
The Holy Bible says, “…evil seducers shall wax worse and worse and treacherous dealers shall deal treacherously…”
There will no real justice until tbe King of kings and Lord of lords returns to rule with a rod of iron.
Nevertheless neither of these men should be permitted within 1,000 miles of a commercial vehicle and wouldn’t last 30 seconds at our company.
Its a sad sad testimony to where we are in this country. Truth has fallen in the streets and justice has gone mad.
All these negative comments about shouldn’t have driven. Well guess we know you never been on paper, or try to make the most out of money for family, so we know what your checks look like. And now while y’all still driving he sitting at home bout to start his own company or just sit and laugh!
Unfortunately I believe this happens way more often than we hear about other than the BS over coffee I’d like the names of the companies who do this that are showcased on this site to have their names printed
Someone mentioned something about the justice system…There is no such thing…The system in place is what has been set up by lawyers and so called judges …Its their system and it’s called Legality. We only live by the Legal system..what ever can be done legally is the winner. OJ Simpson..paccar kenworth etc
The driver was definitely at fault but I see lots of comments squarely putting the blame on his shoulders. That’s ridiculous. If everyone thought that way all companies would over work their drivers and simply blame the drivers for whatever happens. It was definitely a dumb decision to get back on the road but a carrier is supposed to be the first line of defense responsible for upholding the regulations, period.
Everyone please get out the business, I need more of it. Thank you
until I see the company name, I am doubting this is even true.
That driver has to have connections, this was probably planned for years.
This is why DOT PHYSICALS will weed out who stays and who doesn’t.
$80million, LOL, CONGRATS. 🍾🎈🎊
My limited trucking experience was all good. I never felt at all pushed. 3 months at CRST where I could not rest good in a sleeper, and 3 more at Swift, where Lindy was my best boss ever, and I’ve had a lot. I was retired and able to do it for the fun of the drive so I don’t recognize these types of threads. I could stop when I got tired, and go when I woke up.
For you English majors, put these where they go. ,,, //… ”” ??
$80 mil the law is just as stupid as the drver
Not many drivers on the road today. Stick with your electronics and you’ll live forever. It’s a sad time our industry has reached.
Touche” if employers stop treating their workers like a piece of equipment u wouldn’t see this kind of stuff. typical saving a nickel and lose a dollar,
Everyone calls him an a fool and that he should have quit, well how many of You Fools have done the same thing when you first started out as a new driver? How many of you Just quit? All talk! Once you have some years on the job maybe you then have the guts to tell the boss to screw off! It’s not easy when you are new at this job, I did quit and I never had a problem getting a job the same day, the last jerk boss I worked under for a major LTL carrier for 20 years would pull crap like this on me and as I would fight back and call upper management on him over and over and he would have to apologize to me for being wrong as always. But in the long run he still won and got me fired for taking a so called extra ten minutes to my lunch time. Even when my hand help computer system showed me punching in and out on time, but I was doing paperwork and updated my log book, but since the GPS showed me sitting in the same place for 40 minutes and five years of fighting with the jerk the company believed his lies and I was gone! After that I just quit driving for good!! 25 years and 2 million miles doing both line runs and city work was enough! My kids had grown up and left the home and I just didn’t need to put up with all the fools on I-5 in Northern California and Oregon. I hate that road and idiots that drive it, well they try to drive anyway! Ten minutes and no accidents in 20 years with that company and they did that to me? Wow! I also moved 4 times for them as we grew the company, but new upper management hated drivers! Then way be in the trucking business?? Anyway they all got fired to when the company sold one year later to XPO!
Thank you Jan!
I don’t take the company’s side, but I sure as hell don’t take the drivers! That is BS….any driver that pays attn the laws knows a company Can Not Force You by threat of job or money!
It’s ridiculous he gets that kind of money.
As soon as you hit the road, it’s ALL on you! If you drive a pc of crap your company refuses to repair, HOS, over weight, improper permits….anything. If you leave, it’s on you. What part of that is hard to understand? I have to laugh at the one guy talking about the pelvic injury and no more sex part….hell, get married, it has the same effect shortly after the wedding reception!
Pretty sure he’ll never see the 80m or even anywhere near and he’ll have to live with his injuries and the effect it’s had on himself and anyone else around him…
Of course, I’ve only been driving truck since’74 so what do I know? Have I done stuff I shouldn’t when I was a young driver? Hell yes! Have I learned from my mistakes? Hell yes! Free education dummies, learn from others mistakes!
First of all a company can’t “force” you to do anything. My safety and life is worth more than freight. And I’m not compromising my safety or CDL for nobody.
You have a choice. Your job or your license. Your license outweighs the job bc it’s your livelihood. Why do you guys always fear the loss of a job if you know that the company is in the wrong?
To make the roads safer, they should do away with hours of service and let a drivers drive when they’re awake and sleep when they’re sleepy.
They should force companies to unload trucks within 2 hours of trucks arrival or pay detention. There should be no appointment times as long as you arrive during normal business hours.