Hi all, been trucking about 10 years, seen all kinds of messed up stuff companies do (or make you drive) and it never really bothered me until the company I am with now, fleet has about 200 trucks some of which are real junk we're forced to sign off saying they're safe, putting all responsibility on us, but another thing that has me fed up is the camera inside the cab looking right at us, been watching me for 3 years.
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They said the camera only saves the first 30 seconds and the last 30 seconds after an incident (such as an accident) but they changed the cameras in the first year and told us they work the same, however one guy recently got written up for undressing before he got into his sleeper. I guess a fresh pair of boxers is out of the question.
Now we realize these cameras are operational 24/7 and send everything to a cloud and they can pull any minute from from any hour from any day from any month, and view it, or listen to your phone calls (even on your brakes) they don't deny it either.
They listened to us talking about how they illegally evesdrop on our phone calls this way and 3 days later we go a memo stating they would now give us an extra $20 a month to help pay our personal phone bills "since we use the phones for work",...
...but we figure they spoke with attorneys whom told them they better do that quick so it could be considered a work phone (giving them a right to evesdrop)?
They also send back edited e-logs for re-certification (after) we already signed them!(a federal offense) and of course the new version is always short on pay time.
We've all had enough and are considering a class action law suit.
We know we have a case, we were afraid to do much about it, but now we're really fed up with it, because we put tape over the camera lenses for privacy and now we're getting threatened with termination for taping over the cameras, even though they lied to us about how the cameras operate, and we are on our freakin break!
I want to know if there's a good attorney out there that represents truckers or employees who isn't really working for the corporations secretly tipping them off about who's about to sue them and purposely giving away your case, etc (because that kind of stuff happens much more than you think)...
...most attorneys are pretty shady, they're not worried about getting disbarred because they know the poor working class really can't afford to hire a second crook to sue the first crook.
To sue or not to sue...
Discussion in 'Trucker Legal Advice' started by FoggyNotion, Mar 29, 2021.
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