Trucker Fired For Refusing To Drive In Bad Weather Awarded $180k

Can you attach a link to the article?

 

they may be required to hire the driver, that does not mean the driver has to go back.

i know i wouldn't.

if they are scumbags now, and was ordered to rehire him, what's to stop them from setting him up with somethng to either fire him again, or get him arrested, for say something like stealing...????

 

that story is definately on this site, i know, i had read it myself. right now however, i tried searching for it, but i cannot find it myself.

 

https://cdllife.com/2019/feds-say-c...r-fired-for-refusing-to-drive-in-bad-weather/

 

You do have the right NOT to drive in harsh weather!

the "bad" weather was actually..."harsh" weather, which is why i could not find it easily

 

Can someone please add Freight Rite Inc. to the Bad Companies to work for? Good to know that OSHA sided w/ the driver and acknowledged that sometimes weather conditions are indeed too dangerous for drivers to operate in and therefore have the authority to stop work.

 

Here is the link to the law that was cited in the case....


Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) | Whistleblower Protection Program

 

Must be nice. At those rates I would have about a half mil in total winnings against bad employers.

However what you don't know in life sometimes imposes a high price.

 

So someone from the company was riding shotgun in the truck and made him drive? It’s amazing how little backbone anyone has anymore. Even when I was a company driver nobody “forced” me to do anything.