CAN MY EMPLOYER TAKE MY PAY IF I GET A TRAFFIC TICKET?

Insurance has zero to do with the fines the op is talking about, the owner is a cheap pos and wants to micromanage the operation to the point of making them all robots.

 

You need to find a new employer. Your current employer is a thieving DBag
As a employee it should not cost you a dime to work anywhere. Trucking companies are getting to be like the coal mining companies were,,,paying employees wages with the money they have stolen from them.

 

They can if someone was stupid enough to sign a legal document giving them the ability to do such a thing.

 

I still say, if the infraction was with a personal vehicle, they can't touch you, but if you are driving their unit, they can tell you to go to the moon for .03/mile, and you better go. You have little recourse, except find another job,, and who says it's going to be any different. Ins. premiums are a major outlay in cash for companies, and quite frankly, if you had a ticket in MY truck, and my premiums went up, why should I eat that? Are you really worth it if you got a ticket in the 1st place? I think you'll see more of that as the world deteriorates.

 

If you are paying the driver 20% of the load more or less, you are already re-capturing back or we could say absorbing the little $500 damage here and there that the less careful drivers out there cause. Cost of doing business....

 

I've seen million dollar ####ups before in other industries. Company has to suck it up, there is no charging the employee in any other industry other than trucking.

 

If you were ticketed, the ticket would have a court date on there and something about how paying the fine is an admission of guilt. And it’s your choice of how things proceed.

If you sign some statement for a company agreeing to pay fines and you pick up a trailer from a company yard and take it to a receiver and drop it, but two weeks later, you get notified that the load had some damage, and a claim was filed for damages and you have to pay for it. The company would have to be able to prove that , without a shadow of a doubt, that it was you that caused the damage.

But that’s not what is happening, is it?

 

Yep I have seen cranes flipped over on their side, did they make the operator pay a company fine? NOPE. Another operator ran over a piece of steel and popped a $1200 loader tire, they just paid him and fired him. One of my coworkers painted the foot marks on a piling wrong and we drove it into the ground upside down. We had to crawl our $1 million dollar crane back over to that location and drive one more piling on each side of the wrong piling, took all day to knock the boom and counterweights off, crawl over there and put the boom and counterweights back on, drive 2 pilings and knock the boom and counterweights off again and crawl back to the production side of the job. No one got fined for that, but we did have to shamefully sign off on each and every piling before we picked it with the crane lol, it was embarrassing which hurt more than any fine for grown men to be hand-held and babysat like that.

 

What did your contrsct say?

Oh that’s right you skimmed through it just like any of us and signed it.

 

That's exactly why some carriers split their pay between a regular wage and a safety bonus. One place I worked, that bonus was weekly, while others might be monthly, quarterly, or annually. If you screw up, they withhold the claim from that safety/performance bonus and it's perfectly legal. In most states, in order to withhold out of your regular earnings there needs to be a signed contract stipulating the exact amount and duration of those deductions at the start of the deductions. A "policy", even if signed at the outset of employment by the employee, might not be worth the paper it's printed on in some states.