Cargo and property damage paid by company driver

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  1. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    At 27 years of age I’m right in the millennial. I won’t work for a company that has to cover their truck with stickers to prevent stupid. I #### sure won’t work for a place that micromanages everything down to the exact amount a fuel you put in where.

    That’s no way to earn a living or live life.
     
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  3. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Well, it’s actually an interesting read. It’s not even written in lawyerspeak. It’s like something that you’d expect from a slumlord company. You wouldn’t even need a lawyer. All you’d have to do is tell them to Goeth and intercourse thyself.
     
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  4. x1Heavy

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    Never heard of it. There is a church I keep a eye on. Was given directions just so on one particular road. Literally told drive until I see the boss man or the first mixer at that jobsite.

    Well the first two were at a church. Pulled in . Poured the foundation. Cement did not come out right even to my inexperienced eye. Told boss man they better slump test this thing. He paled. Got on the cell.

    It would be years later before I learned there were TWO seperate jobs on that road. I faithfully followed directions to the FIRST job. With concrete made for curbing not for foundation. At that time years later they dug out the old flawed weak foundation and repoured the new. Unfortunately it's pretty important near that corner under the steeple.

    Even today I keep a eye on those bricks. There is about 400 people attending services regularly and it will break my heart to see it fail. But the company gave me the directions and that was flawed of them in the root cause so I was not at fault.

    That is why I require as much information about the situation in town before I get there and what's in my truck. Bad things happen when people don't tell me ####. He's just a drivah. Worse he wont listen, he's deaf. (BS...) and so on. It's amazing how discriminatory attitudes put 400 people at risk years later. But those bricks over the foundation tell me that the church is in spite of the royal screwup doing pretty good.

    I still enjoyed the work more or less with a grain of salt because the yankees back home never bothered to give me the same oppertunity as the Johnnys down here did.
     
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  5. Jazz1

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  6. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    It’s like volunteering to go to prison and signing a contract agreeing to a longer sentence every time you drop the soap.
     
  7. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    I’m glad he allowed me to see it and post it. I had no idea. Doesn’t matter if it’s legally binding, this thing is such BS that they couldn’t even get their lawyers to write it up.
     
  8. STexan

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    Most “Employee Manuals” have language of questionable material somewhere in them. And at some point in orientation or hire date you must sign for “receipt and acknowledgment” of the employee manual. It just gives the employer some protection and options when things go awry with an employee as they inevitably will.
     
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  9. Ridgeline

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    Yes they do and no they are not legal in this industry.

    The courts have nullified a lot of these agreements, just as they have nullified a lot of these asinine non-compete agreements.
     
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  10. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    I appreciate your commentary Mr Ridgeline. Has any company that you leased truck onto ever try this? I’ve had stuff in contracts that I didn’t like that I marked out and initialed and... but those were usually purchases and service fees.
     
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  11. magoo68

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    I wonder if this contract is written this way because of all the aero add ons their equipment have... I have to imagine they have a few faux pas and it’s pricey replacing plastic parts
     
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