western express wants you to break the law

I could easily go to 47000 with a great dane dry van we had.

 

Terminating an employee because s/he refuses to engage in an act which is unsafe or against established laws is illegal under various federal laws. The Whistleblower Act covers many different industries, and truck drivers are covered under Ground Transportation:

http://www.whistleblowers.gov/

This site has information on your rights as an employee who has lost their job in retaliation for refusing to violate your industry regulations, and also on how to make a report/get possible recourse.

As someone who works in HR (legal watchdog), it never fails to amaze me the unethical things some organizations do to their employees

 

Yeah, but here's the thing. He cannot prove that's why he was fired. He's just assuming that's the reason. I'm sure somewhere in his orientation packet he signed a form for " at will employment", meaning they can let him go whenever and for whatever they please with no recourse.

 

Shoot, this '11 Cascadia and empty Wabash and full tanks is around 33,000.

But if you are overweight just take it back to the shipper and tell them to fix it. Someone with 2 years exp should know that.

 

He got termed for not running to NYC. Not sure that qualifies for whistleblower protection.

 

I run a 12 cascadia condo. Prime drivers keep all their equipment on the truck, tarps chains/binders, straps. With an empy 48 flat and 200gal of fuel I'm 30,700 or so.

You have (had ) a hot tub in there driver?

 

I have a Cascadia and can't haul more than 43,500-44,000. Or i'm over gross.

 

Sometimes people get fired just for griping too much. It's hard to run a business with loud wailing in the background. In a right-to-work state, you can be fired for any reason, such as being a pain in the "you-know-what", which affects the morale of the other drivers. If a driver complains constantly and is always miserable, that driver should move on to a union company, where he will fit right in.

 

Doubt I'd want to go much over 45500 with our volvo's and 53 foot trailers. 150 gal tanks weigh a lot. Of course, when I'm going into a heavy shipper like bottled water or roll stock paper mill I never go in with full tanks.

 

FWIW, I have 45,550 in a 53 dry van. I have a VNL780 sleeper and I scaled out at 78,180 with the needle just over 1/2 tank.