How to Stick Drivers with Truck Damages?

Because. When it becomes apparent to a driver that a company has a policy that is the real policy that goes and flies in the face of what their written policy is there’s really no hope. Example. In the 27 months I was at my company? I never once got my days off when they were supposed to happen. I would put in far in advance for my days off and it would be acknowledged by my dispatcher. When that day came around I was usually being routed the opposite direction from home. I would remind him, and the loads would keep coming and coming. I would stay out usually anywhere from a week to three weeks longer than my original request for home time.

That’s not a “mistake to work out” that’s a dispatcher/manager who doesn’t give a flying #### about their drivers. Other people can work for a company like that, I refuse to.

 

Be very careful, you can't force an employee to pay for damages, it really isn't legal and opens the door for litigation against you.

 

I knew you'd be along soon.

 

I applied for a company that was very kind at first. Then we got to the paperwork, HR had a big pile which should have told me what was coming.

-One document to be signed acknowledged my getting a key to the outer office where the driver stuff was, and stated that I was responsible for any damages should I lose the key.

-Another one, saved for last, was that I would pay for all damages from any accidents or cross-drops, including any business income losses. The driver who was going to train me was having an amount deducted from his check for an incident.

-The amount stated in the interview that I could work up to with seniority turned out to be based on an 8 x 8 chart, therefore there were 64 steps to get to top pay, which turned out to be not quite 64k/year, and it would likely take 3 years working nights to do so.

Any surprise to any driver here that this small company has continuous job ads on Indeed and has disabled any comments on their company Indeed page? They have 3 trucks and they actually pay a recruiter to find drivers.

Instead of paying drivers fairly and treating them right in the first place.