I Got Fired For Discussing My Hours Of Service

Exactly!! If they won't me to run illegal. Then why would I even want the job. She told some lady who gave her a lawyers information. That she didn't want to take a settlement and wouldn't take the pennies they offered her, and she wants her job back. So I'm just saying if you know you might have to shave a few minutes off your time to get loads picked up. Then why would you want to go back. Take the L and go somewhere else. Trucking is still new to logging legal or trying to. I don't believe it can truly be done. You can get close but 100% legal is unattainable if you or your company want to make a profit.

 

You cannot have it both ways. You do not want to run illegal and neither did she. Why condemn her for it.

 

Dude I don't want to run 15 and 16 hours on the drive line illegal. Not crying about 5 minutes. Come on there is sometime you need to use common sense.

If you know you work for the post office and they want the load picked up at exact time, and if not they moan and groan to your company. Threatening them they will lose their contract. You best believe the company has to get drivers in there who are not afraid to shave off a few minutes on pre and post trip. Now I also don't know the companies rules on pre and post trip. I know my company wants us to do both. So maybe her companies rules are you do pretrip and flag the post trip. Or it's like mine where you have to show at least 15 minutes doing pre and post trip. All I can see is she thinks she is going to get big money out of this. I'm sure OSHA and our Court system has better things to do. Then be bothered about 5minutes.

 

Have an accident and there is no difference in illegal.

5 minutes is the same as the other.

You do it your way, I would not have moved either.

5 minutes moved and then they can choose to get rid of you for violating log rules. It is a no win situation.

 

Regardless of how it could have been done, that is how it was done. Asking her to run early isn't right, neither its firing her for it. If your company needs to run illegal to make a profit then you aren't running your company correctly. Might be time to ask for a better rate and hire another driver

 

I ran illegal today..... I logged a 5 minute pre trip when it took me 3... I'm such a rebel, I know


In all seriousness, I love cake.

 

Hey Snow, I was going off of what the OP had previously stated in her original post. Per her, it takes 10-15 mins to get to the post office and the company only allows 10 mins for post trip inspection.

 

It doesn't matter if she had to a post trip. She did one and so she has to log the actual time it took her to it. She is in the right here. If she cut her break short or showed up late they could fire her for that. They shouldn't be able to fire her for not breaking a rule. Another reason Right to work sucks, if she had any kind of representation we wouldn't be discussing this.

 

If you can't run the way the law reads and make money then you might want a different job. This is my CDL not the companies, they choose to own a company that has rules regulated by a very thick book. If they would run it by the book and have enough trucks and drivers to abide by those rules then no issues would ever happen. A driver should never have to break the law to cover the company. We already do above and beyond for those owners who are at home cozy in their fart sacks. I don't suck up to no one. I do my job the way its suppose to be and if they did theirs correctly then there would be no issue. I feel she was right, but better planning on her part maybe and I say maybe could have changed the out come. You think that if for some reason something happened on the road that they will bend over and take the blame for you, LOL don't think so. If everyone would run correctly it would be safe out there or at least better than it is now. You log book cheaters will get caught soon enough. And after they weed out all you paper burners for good, then the rest of us will get even better loads than we have now because less trucks on the road means higher frieght. Wish you luck Cozy

 

Just as a side note, safety and compliance are not mutually inclusive.