MN89 ARE CROOKS. But I have a very serious question also.

fmcsa doesnt' handle stalking cases. that is a penal code voilation outside of fmcsa scope of authority.

 

So you're not referring to driver-facing cameras and EOBR devices for company tracking purposes? You're saying that 4 wheeled vehicles with agents are following you while in the truck and outside of the truck on your personal time?
Sorry if I'm skeptical, but that seems like pure B.S.
Trucking companies don't need to hide the fact that they stalk you while on duty or driving because many companies openly do that.
If you're being followed or stalked while out of the truck, what makes you so sure that it's a trucking company that's doing the stalking?

 

Check your freight! They are probably using you as a mule, let them see you break the seal and open the doors and see if you get a reaction.

 

Tnsnowman may be on to something.

I was followed 2 weeks ago by a new mid level big wig in my company. I have a 20 mile one way run. Dump truck. All drivers knew they had been followed. I was the 1st of 3 that stopped short and confronted him. Clown stuck out like ##### in church. Still employed, but probably on borrowed time.

 

I believe you Kplogan78. Go check out Bonehead Truckers. He posted a video on this company. They are another one of these companies connected to multiple DOT #'s. Someone had abandoned one of their trucks in N. Little Rock, Ar.

 

I don’t know if you’ve got some paranoia going on here or what, but I’m gonna take what you’re saying at face value.

First off, you gotta separate them tracking the truck from them tracking YOU. If it’s their truck, them knowing where that truck is 24/7 is pretty much normal in this business. GPS, ELD, telematics, cameras, whatever. They have every right to know where their equipment is and FMCSA regulations even account for electronic location tracking.

Now if you are literally saying this company hired people in cars to physically follow you around the country, including when you’re off duty and on your breaks, that is a whole different freaking ballgame. Especially if these people are following you across state lines. Every state has its own stalking/harassment and electronic tracking laws, and there is also a federal interstate stalking law. That doesn’t mean somebody following you automatically equals stalking you still have to establish the pattern, intent and circumstances, but what you’re describing could potentially cross that line if you can actually prove it.

The biggest thing I would tell you is stop worrying about convincing people with the story and start documenting the #### out of it. Dates, times, locations, video, vehicle descriptions, license plates when they have them, screenshots, everything. If the same identifiable vehicle shows up in Ohio, then Indiana, then Missouri and then Oklahoma behind you, that’s evidence. If you can establish that several of these vehicles or people have some connection to this company, now you’ve got something a police department, attorney or federal agency can actually work with.

And if these cars really are running around with the plates removed while following you, get that on video too. Don’t confront them and don’t start chasing them trying to prove something. Just document it.

One other thing: if all you’ve got right now is similar dark-tinted cars showing up at different places, be careful about jumping straight from that to “my employer hired people to follow me.” There are millions of similar-looking cars on the interstate. But if you’ve got the video you say you have and it actually shows the SAME vehicles repeatedly following you across multiple states, that’s something entirely different and I would absolutely keep documenting it and talk to an attorney who deals with stalking/privacy/employment issues.

Tracking their truck is one thing. Hiring people to physically surveil a former employee 24/7 across the country would be something else entirely.

 

This stuff happens all the time. Some owners and management have huge trust issues and like to have a thumb on everything that is done by everyone. Those company’s send unmarked cars out to follow their trucks all the time. The company I drove for did. We called them the “four horsemen”. Most are better at blending in so drivers don’t notice. Sometimes they'd see something they didn't like and you’d get a call an hour later and it slways be under the guise of “a lady called in and said you ran her off the road or someone felt unsafe around you or something like that. They’d have the details down of time and place so you know it was half ### not made up. No markings on the truck so you know the call was b.s.

 

Not happened to me but to a couple people I knew. How old were you when these thoughts started occurring? Mid-20s to late 20s?

 

During a management training class I took years ago there was a guest speaker discussing the psychology behind managing staff and he said something I always remembered. He said “if you watch anybody 24/7 from the CEO to the janitor, you will find a plethora of reasons that you can fire them.” In other words, it’s not always a good idea to try to always know absolutely everything.