Can I fight my contract?

Tb0n3 · Sep 15, 2017

Steel Tiger said: ↑

I'm confused. If you're leasing, how can they force you to take on a co driver of their choosing? If you're training, how can a trainee bring a spouse? Need more info
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Sounds like just teams.

x1Heavy · Sep 15, 2017

Steel Tiger said: ↑

I'm confused. If you're leasing, how can they force you to take on a co driver of their choosing? If you're training, how can a trainee bring a spouse? Need more info
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Trainee would create a situation with three people int he truck with a passenger waiver for the spouse. I don't think there is three seats in a truck with restraints unless you treat one bunk and it's crash net as a legal restraint for one soul.

ive taken a couple short distances before. But extremely short for rescue type situations. They are out of that truck before they have a chance to cause trouble.

pattyj · Sep 15, 2017

Ffx95 said: ↑

I've been with this company for sometime and I'm just waiting for my contract to expire so I can run away like the plague. Anywho he's the backstory.

So I had a co-driver but he took hometime and I was too far to pick him up so I ran solo for about a week. Now I was going to pick up a load Tunnel Hill, GA it was a 180 mile deadhead I didn't mind since I was getting paid but I go in and I'm missing about 70 miles and my DM decides to stop me to say I've been assigned a new co-driver but he's in Atlanta which was about 150ish miles south so I had to turn around and pick him up. I call him and notice he has a heavy foreign accent so now I know we're going to have communication issues. I pick him up and run for another hour and decide to tell him to start driving because I only had 1 more hour of driving. He gets into a fuss because he just upgraded to phase 2 and his trainer never let him drive nights. Now I tell him tough #### I don't have the hours to get there man up and drive. Finally after disputing he gets on. Now this is where he decides to spill the beans and say he's had 3 trainers.....oh #### he's a bad apple. I stay positive and just assume maybe he got 2 bad trainers or racist ones.

Anywho he starts to log in doesn't even mark pre-trip, doesn't walk around the truck to check, nothing just logs in and starts driving. I already knew what was going to happen. He makes a turn out the truckstop WAYYY too wide eating all the road but I let it slide assuming he needs to get used to the truck so more.

Now here's the deal breaker; he's driving 40 in the interstate that says 70 and minimum 45. I tell him speed up you're going to cause an accident he just says how I shouldn't have made him drive night he needs to drive slow because he can't see. The load is running late so I can't just stop and have us reset our clocks to have me drive night so I said tough #### drive atleast 50. I go to the sleeper and strap myself with the safety net just incase something happens because he's not listening to me still going 40. Now he shouts to wake me up he has to pee so I look for a stop. Now we find a petro and tell him to take the exit. He goes 20 I #### you not 20 mph while still in the interstate before taking the ramp, yes you're hearing this right 20 mph while still in the interstate lane not the exit lane. Oh my god.

So I tell my dm and tell him I can't drive with him. He replies next morning with saying finish my current load which is near Chicago and he'll get me a load to Salt Lake City. No way in HELL I'm going 1400 miles with someone like this. So I tell him no I'm going to south holland and dropping him off or I quit. Well I did that he gets mad tries throwing me to another DM. Other DM tries to put me with a solo driver that is with his wife and have a whole bunch of stuff in the truck already. We talk and agree teaming is not in our best interest specifically because he likes to do hanky panky with his wife. Now I'm talking to my old DM saying it's not ganna happen. Anywho that's it so far waiting for his reply. I'm sure he's probably going to try to get me back by doing something shady like slow miles or the sort but I wanted to know if I'm getting penalized can I take my contract for review legally as they expect me to work under unsafe conditions I had to REALLLY argue with my dm to get this guy off my truck.
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You may feel you have a valid reason to end your to end your contract but I doubt england will feel the same way.

Pedigreed Bulldog · Sep 15, 2017

Don't worry about the consequences that other driver and his unauthorized passenger face...that's on THEM. You had every right NOT to have to put up with that (not to mention, if it was your turn to drive when the DOT decided to inspect and discovered the unauthorized passenger, it would've been YOUR ticket!) Covering your own rear is NOT the equivalent of being a rat. A rat makes it his business to get others in trouble. You were merely making sure you stayed clear of trouble.

truckdriver31 · Sep 16, 2017

Ffx95 said: ↑

I've been with this company for sometime and I'm just waiting for my contract to expire so I can run away like the plague. Anywho he's the backstory.

So I had a co-driver but he took hometime and I was too far to pick him up so I ran solo for about a week. Now I was going to pick up a load Tunnel Hill, GA it was a 180 mile deadhead I didn't mind since I was getting paid but I go in and I'm missing about 70 miles and my DM decides to stop me to say I've been assigned a new co-driver but he's in Atlanta which was about 150ish miles south so I had to turn around and pick him up. I call him and notice he has a heavy foreign accent so now I know we're going to have communication issues. I pick him up and run for another hour and decide to tell him to start driving because I only had 1 more hour of driving. He gets into a fuss because he just upgraded to phase 2 and his trainer never let him drive nights. Now I tell him tough #### I don't have the hours to get there man up and drive. Finally after disputing he gets on. Now this is where he decides to spill the beans and say he's had 3 trainers.....oh #### he's a bad apple. I stay positive and just assume maybe he got 2 bad trainers or racist ones.

Anywho he starts to log in doesn't even mark pre-trip, doesn't walk around the truck to check, nothing just logs in and starts driving. I already knew what was going to happen. He makes a turn out the truckstop WAYYY too wide eating all the road but I let it slide assuming he needs to get used to the truck so more.

Now here's the deal breaker; he's driving 40 in the interstate that says 70 and minimum 45. I tell him speed up you're going to cause an accident he just says how I shouldn't have made him drive night he needs to drive slow because he can't see. The load is running late so I can't just stop and have us reset our clocks to have me drive night so I said tough #### drive atleast 50. I go to the sleeper and strap myself with the safety net just incase something happens because he's not listening to me still going 40. Now he shouts to wake me up he has to pee so I look for a stop. Now we find a petro and tell him to take the exit. He goes 20 I #### you not 20 mph while still in the interstate before taking the ramp, yes you're hearing this right 20 mph while still in the interstate lane not the exit lane. Oh my god.

So I tell my dm and tell him I can't drive with him. He replies next morning with saying finish my current load which is near Chicago and he'll get me a load to Salt Lake City. No way in HELL I'm going 1400 miles with someone like this. So I tell him no I'm going to south holland and dropping him off or I quit. Well I did that he gets mad tries throwing me to another DM. Other DM tries to put me with a solo driver that is with his wife and have a whole bunch of stuff in the truck already. We talk and agree teaming is not in our best interest specifically because he likes to do hanky panky with his wife. Now I'm talking to my old DM saying it's not ganna happen. Anywho that's it so far waiting for his reply. I'm sure he's probably going to try to get me back by doing something shady like slow miles or the sort but I wanted to know if I'm getting penalized can I take my contract for review legally as they expect me to work under unsafe conditions I had to REALLLY argue with my dm to get this guy off my truck.
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i wouldn't ride with you either. telling someone to man up that hasn't drove at night is not so cool. sounds like you are a real winner also.

Broke Down 69 · Sep 17, 2017

truckdriver31 said: ↑

i wouldn't ride with you either. telling someone to man up that hasn't drove at night is not so cool. sounds like you are a real winner also.
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Well, hell that's just stupid. Nobody had driven at night until the first time. Solar powered drivers...it ain't a 9 to 5 out here in the OTR world.

Ffx95 · Sep 17, 2017

truckdriver31 said: ↑

i wouldn't ride with you either. telling someone to man up that hasn't drove at night is not so cool. sounds like you are a real winner also.
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Not my fault all 3 of his trainers didnt let him drive night. Heck the way he drove it was with good reason. I was lucky my trainer was hard on me because now although I dislike driving nights I will drive if I have to. You can find it as messed up as you want but if you can't drive nights You should avoid OTR

Oh and update, My DM just decided to have me run solo until he finds someone with similiar experience as me to take the truck when I go on hometime. I picked up a load that was running late because the guy's truck broke down and you guys are not going to believe this. After talking with him I found out he was the 3rd trainer of that nightmare of a driver. I also found out that the 3rd trainer kicked him off the truck on the 4th day being with him reason being he wasn't using the jakes on the mountains. Now the question is how was he allowed to upgrade to phase 2 with no trainer approvals?

Jim007 · Dec 3, 2017

I have the same situation describe above here back in 2016. After 8 months of OTR service for .14cpm then .25cpm the company let me go for policy violation. To be specific someone snitched to them that I had a beer can at a hotel room. At first they thought it was in a truck but after I made it clear I was off-duty at a hotel room they still could not care. Long story short I was fired the following dayThe problem is they email me a bill stating I owe them $4995+ for training and lodging. I told them I aint paying them a dime. They are the one who let me go while I'm only left with one month to finish up that contract. I told them I have no problem with coming back to finish up that contract. The question is do u guys think there is hope they wll call me back to finish up that contract?

upset mom · Mar 10, 2019

Ffx95 said: ↑

I've been with this company for sometime and I'm just waiting for my contract to expire so I can run away like the plague. Anywho he's the backstory.

So I had a co-driver but he took hometime and I was too far to pick him up so I ran solo for about a week. Now I was going to pick up a load Tunnel Hill, GA it was a 180 mile deadhead I didn't mind since I was getting paid but I go in and I'm missing about 70 miles and my DM decides to stop me to say I've been assigned a new co-driver but he's in Atlanta which was about 150ish miles south so I had to turn around and pick him up. I call him and notice he has a heavy foreign accent so now I know we're going to have communication issues. I pick him up and run for another hour and decide to tell him to start driving because I only had 1 more hour of driving. He gets into a fuss because he just upgraded to phase 2 and his trainer never let him drive nights. Now I tell him tough #### I don't have the hours to get there man up and drive. Finally after disputing he gets on. Now this is where he decides to spill the beans and say he's had 3 trainers.....oh #### he's a bad apple. I stay positive and just assume maybe he got 2 bad trainers or racist ones.

Anywho he starts to log in doesn't even mark pre-trip, doesn't walk around the truck to check, nothing just logs in and starts driving. I already knew what was going to happen. He makes a turn out the truckstop WAYYY too wide eating all the road but I let it slide assuming he needs to get used to the truck so more.

Now here's the deal breaker; he's driving 40 in the interstate that says 70 and minimum 45. I tell him speed up you're going to cause an accident he just says how I shouldn't have made him drive night he needs to drive slow because he can't see. The load is running late so I can't just stop and have us reset our clocks to have me drive night so I said tough #### drive atleast 50. I go to the sleeper and strap myself with the safety net just incase something happens because he's not listening to me still going 40. Now he shouts to wake me up he has to pee so I look for a stop. Now we find a petro and tell him to take the exit. He goes 20 I #### you not 20 mph while still in the interstate before taking the ramp, yes you're hearing this right 20 mph while still in the interstate lane not the exit lane. Oh my god.

So I tell my dm and tell him I can't drive with him. He replies next morning with saying finish my current load which is near Chicago and he'll get me a load to Salt Lake City. No way in HELL I'm going 1400 miles with someone like this. So I tell him no I'm going to south holland and dropping him off or I quit. Well I did that he gets mad tries throwing me to another DM. Other DM tries to put me with a solo driver that is with his wife and have a whole bunch of stuff in the truck already. We talk and agree teaming is not in our best interest specifically because he likes to do hanky panky with his wife. Now I'm talking to my old DM saying it's not ganna happen. Anywho that's it so far waiting for his reply. I'm sure he's probably going to try to get me back by doing something shady like slow miles or the sort but I wanted to know if I'm getting penalized can I take my contract for review legally as they expect me to work under unsafe conditions I had to REALLLY argue with my dm to get this guy off my truck.
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