4000+ Miles/Week is Possible w/ELDs

I was a W2 employee, just Texas is a "Right to Work" state so Worker's Comp is not mandatory.

But you hit the bullseye-
I did the math and it was over 3,800 miles that week and 4 live loads/offloads.

 

Nothing far as I know.

Well, it's indirect, but- I didn't want to take chances getting injured on a job where my employer does not offer benefits and doesn't have worker's comp insurance. Far as I know they don't have employees covered under any private insurance either. I'm no lawyer so I'm assuming that if I had to visit a doctor because of a work related injury, I'd need one to get my expenses covered.

So, I didn't want to run a load that required too much exposure to injury given the above. Apparently, speaking my mind about that is what got me fired.

There was no exit interview or anything. The place I normally park the truck on breaks is over 600 miles away from the company's office and yard. Cleaned out the truck as asked and left the keys somewhere inconspicuous, also as asked. Received my last check. Done.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the employer is going to make up whatever he wants to about why he fired me. The only thing I have to go on is that I "refused a load" by saying "I don't want to do that one because you don't have benefits or worker's comp."

At least if I got injured on the job for a company that had either paid benefits or worker's comp, then I wouldn't be so skittish about that particular load and I probably wouldn't have said anything. I'd probably still have a job, I'm thinking.