Trucking lawyer/ Wrongful Termination

Texas State Bar Lawyer Lawyer Referral and Information Service

Employment law is the specialty you need.

 

Doubt any lawyer will take the case, at will employment in Texas and being a driver you most likely didn’t have a personal services contract so they can fire you any time for any reason.

 

just find another job. Chinatown, is the best in the industry on helping drivers find a company
to driver for.

 

Lawyer- $300hr, if he decides to take the case, 2-3 years for trial, Deposition will eat you up,
12 man jury trial, if insisted,or bench trial. Save about $15k,and if company counters, pay there
legal fees. Be careful.

 

I would never consider working for a company that would fire me.

 

I tried the same thing a few years ago. Lawyer said move on even though the company was wrong. Mine was a retaliation layoff. Myself and two others did spend months calling into the safety hotline everyday and reporting every safety violation we could. They had to investigate and make a report. I did it just to put pressure on the local office (oilfield company).

 

I take a load to the next state over and the thread descends into a cesspool of misinformation.

Employment lawyers work on a contingency basis. You pay actual costs for things like copies and filing fees and they take a percentage (20-30%) if and when they win or the case is settled. They decide during the free first consultation whether or not you have a case worth pursuing given the laws of your state and the facts of your case. An experienced attorney will tell you what your case is worth and how long it will take. Employment law issues rarely go to court. They settle because the lawyers on both sides know how things will play out and employer’s choose paying the settlement instead of paying the court and the legal fees to get there.

At-will employment doesn’t mean an employer can fire you anytime they feel like it without cause. Think about it - there would never be an unemployment claim if that were true. “I didn’t lay that employee off, I fired them”. At-will means an employee doesn’t have a contract or guarantee of a job and they may be fired for cause. Cause can be something major (wrecking a truck) or minor things that pile up (peeing behind a trailer in the yard instead of walking to a restroom, being late for work, etc).

Years ago I was fired for following a police officer’s orders. I sued, I won. My employer settled for six-figures.