Fired for being stopped at a weigh station.

OP's thread. Start your own

 

Nothing random about the number of inspections you received at the New Waverly scale. Your company obviously has a poor CSA score, so the carrier ISS score recommends inspection of your vehicle. I have gone past the New Waverly scale more than 1500 times since 2007 and was only inspected one time during the 72 hour blitz back in 2011 while driving for UPS. Since driving for Walmart, I have not been stopped for inspection at any weigh station.

Keeping the name of this carrier you worked for a secret will do nothing for you, but will just enable them to keep things the status quo in the future. All the violations from these inspections will remain on your CSA record for 3 years.

 

AGREED! Sometimes "no reason" or "undisclosed" is acceptable,.... Specially if they are letting you go for reasons they know will get them I trouble.... Been there, done that..... Ohio is notorious for doing this!

 

"I was late maybe once or twice in 3 months. Nothing to bad." That would have been enough for me to send you on your way. Unless of course you were late because you got held up at scale house.

 

filing and winning law suits are 2 different things
if it is a crap company just move on
they did you a favor

 

sounds to me like this company expects drivers to go around scales and you didn't. Also sounds like you aren't supposed to find anything wrong in your PTI's.

 

If you knowingly drove trucks with defects I'd probably just leave things alone and chalk it up as a lesson learned... Unless you have documented write ups they will just say you didn't do your job and report defects ... Just be happy that they are on DOT's radar and will have to improve or close

 

Op profile says 0-1 yr. Even if he wins a law suit I doubt he gets much. As someone that's been going through a wrongful dismissal suit since 2007, less than a year ain't worth the hassle IMO. Different story if he'd been injured or employed for 25 yrs and lost a pension and benefits.

You can get another job making the same or more than what you were making so you've lost nothing. You can't sue for what you didn't lose.

 

I wonder if the company is called sedita...or hoffman...both of those or notorious for being stopped at new Waverly scales...

 

you can sue for punitive damages, emotional distress and damages not directly related to an exact dollar amount that was lost. That in addition to front pay in lieu of reinstatement. If the claim was legit, the OP would be entitled to back pay and front pay adjusted to the amount he would have earned had he not been wrongfully terminated. Those damages; punitive and emotional distress ; are often much higher than actual lost wages. But then the value of his health insurance would also be put in the damages figure, in addition to the monetary value of any and all pensions, 401k etc. I think in a wrongful termination suit your lost wages are multiplied by 3 times to calculate damages.