question about drivers being held responsible for damages

This is a quick question for anyone who has seen this happen on the job. My husband works for a company here in Florida that has asked him to sign a new policy. In this policy they are stating that the driver will be held financially responsible for any damage that may occur to their property and to any businesses that they may deliver to. In this memo it states that the company will take the money out of the drivers pay. The example they give is that they can will take the difference between their pay and minimum wage which here is $7.93 an hour. Which seems to me to be very harsh, I mean how many drivers out there can make it on that pay. If anyone has heard of this what would your suggestion be. At this time some drivers have refused to sign. My husband is not sure if he should. And if he does sign is there any insurance we can purchase to cover any damage it is were to occur. I'm not worried about his driving but we do live in Florida and people down here are terrible drivers.

 

lol, I totally agree. They are not threating fire if he does not sign, and others have refused. We think that they are not wanting to use there insurance because they do not want premimums to go up. This is a small company, they pay well but this is not right what they are doing. Thanks

 

I agree, the insurance should cover any damage, we are still waiting to see if they are going to also make the driver responsible if there is a cross drop, he delivers fuel and it does happen sometimes. if the driver does that the fuel has to be refined and that is expensive. This whole thing is crazy we have in all of these years never had a company do this. We've seen them with hold safety bonus's but never this.