DRD Motorsports Inc. - Mt Clemens, Mi.

NOPE, you told me NUMEROUS times that "All Good Drivers can DRIVE at Least 700 Miles Per day" (Direct Quote) And I WAS fired for "failure to perform", but you were requiring me to drive on to Newark NJ from Newburg NY after I had already driven about 10 hours and spent 4 hours unloading the 70' mast in Maine. That was illegal; for me to continue driving and for you to FIRE me for refusing to.


Checking the data in DriversDailyLog; I drove 12556 miles in 26 days (241.25 hours). That equals to driving an average of (9 1/4 hours per day) 483 miles per day (or 51.83 MPH) That is a fairly good average since most of those miles were in states that restrict truck speed limits to 60 miles per hour or less. And any good driver knows that bad traffic, including traffic affected by bad weather, can cause the average MPH of any vehicle drop, especially in vehicles that are driven by a COMPETENT and SAFE driver. I Hardly EVER drive more than 9 1/4 hours per day. It is too easy to run out of hours and be forced to sit, as I was forced to in Arizona, even though you required me to continue driving on to San Antonio to pick up the other boat(s), violating the HOS regulations. Again, something I REFUSED to do.

You are only 1/2 right, two of the boats I delivered WERE damaged, but you must understand FORCE MAJURE: I cannot be held responsible for damage due negligent loading I WAS NOT in control of, nor can I be held responsible for damage as the result of something NOT IN MY control. The damage to the two boats was the result of YOUR negligence, and NOT mine. YOU loaded the boats too close together and I spent 4 hours correcting them AFTER they were damaged. Then YOU made the decision to to replace a defective tire with a USED tire in Santa Rosa NM. That tire blew with-in 5 miles of the tire shop (damaging the second boat for the second time). Again NOT my fault. THAT is the responsibility of the Carrier's Insurance (do you have any? LOL) If YOU remember, when I called you and told you about the damage (due to YOUR negligent loading and the tire blow-out) your immediate response was to yell and scream like I was your dog.....or even worse. That is how you deal with people. That fact is well documented by even your own customers.

Well, since I have NEVER had an "At-Fault" accident in a CMV (or any accident in any other vehicle for that matter), a major moving violation in ANY vehicle in over 20 years, (in fact, nothing more than a PARKING TICKET) I guess my "driving skills" speak for themselves then, right?

I told you where the truck was going to be, and I also told you that I refused to drive it any further unless you had it repaired. It was your choice to get the "three police" agencies involved, because that is how YOU are, you are an extremely vindictive and immature person.

Two years, you better HURRY! (I CAN'T wait!) LOL

 

So you feel that it is "RIGHT" to physically assult people simply because you dont like them or agree with them? Oh...WAIT, I am talking to you; OF COURSE YOU DO!

And your point is? This is a good example of how you view other people, you somehow view yourself as superior to "employees"? Of course, I am an employee, a GOOD employee, but not one that will roll-over and pee all over himself. And I am NOT your employee

Naturally, when that "authority" demands I violate laws.

Bad things happen to even GOOD people. I am very good at taking responsibility for what is actually my responsibility. But never 'take one for the Gipper'

More ad-homynims :::YAWN:::

 

Sure, I will be the FIRST to admit that I hold a "GRUDGE", but let me ask you this: If YOUR employer fired YOU for refusing to violate HOS regulations, then immediately issued a STOP PAYMENT on your previous paycheck (the one that ALREADY had been issued a NSF) then REFUSED to pay you for your final couple weeks work, would YOU also hold a GRUDGE? I called HIS Bank immediately AFTER I was informed (by my Credit Union) that he issued the STOP PAYMENT, and was told that he issued the STOP PAYMENT on the SAME DAY I was fired.

Perhaps you wouldnt publish a web site like I did, but that is how I deal with situations I feel somewhat helpless in, when the "Target" has the ability to affect the safety of the General Public or focuses a bad light on truckers who are trying to earn a living, in an HONEST way.

 

OOS rate of 17.8% for only TWO drivers? (That's ALL there was when I worked for him ~ME and HIM~) His OOS rate was slightly less the previous year. I checked AFTER I was fired.
~Live & Learn~

 

I appologise if my "tone" seems intemperant when discussing anything with this "person". Perhaps your tone would be different too, if you had gotten several series of vulgar and threatning emails, even AFTER issuing complaint after complaint with his ISP (AoHELL) and after filing a complaint against him for harassment with the Grand Rapids Police Department and the Michigan Atty General. (I have received over 35 such emails, often several per day) This is all AFTER being forced to sue him thru the Michigan Dept of Labor Wage and Hour Division, and have to wait for 12 months while he stone-walls, to get money from him.

 

Oh, ok, I was attempting to remain relatively civil in my tone here, but my original answer explaining my tone still stands. I have NOT published the last couple of series of harassing emails from him on my web site (yet). I think by doing so would only enforce his lack of common decency and would seem redundant. I should also state that I never initiated any email correspondence with him at any time. I never even knew his email address until I got the first one. Any response to him is only in reaction to his vulgarity and threatning manner, in which I became familiar with during my short (but too long, really) employment there.