Employer possibly paying me wrong, possibly made to break DOT HOS by termination, public safety??

Also there is no allowed time for rest, you either rest when there are no Jobs and your not working hourly during open office time. I worked 8am- 4am the following morning a few days ago, called my boss and said I was too tired after working a average of 17-18hr days the past 2 weeks with the recent ones being like 20hrs. Then he said nope, he needed me so from 8am-4am comission/on call/dispatch, I went in at 8am- 5am the next morning as well. That's when I worked a wreck and the cop called saying I needed sleep. So I had a possible sleep time of maybe 5 hours in 48 hours. And that's with the work phone still ringing for possible quotes and jobs. Your rest isn't consecutive, nor is your work. You could be in the truck literally 24 hours towing with no sleep and they expect that. Or get home and take a shower and get a call an leave again. So I don't understand with being dispatch as well as a driver with a required response time an no alloted consecutive rest period free from the truck or obligations of handling all buisness matters after hours while still working normal hours. How could that be okay?

 

And that's what I did, he tried to get me to come in for on call later that same day and I said no. And I went in the next morning and he pulled me aside basically confirming my suspension by saying it's not okay that that highway patrol called about my hours and being tired and literally losing his mind which I had never seen. Because if it wasn't a issue why would the officer do that? And why would he be losing his cool over me doing what he said. So I stood my ground and told him all this was sketchy. That I wanted a breakdown sheet of what is paid in comission, that I also wanted paperwork regarding my vehicle and equipment to know value and weight as well as towing capacity. That I also wanted paperwork regarding any regulations on securing vehicles to the bed and polices and procedures from state to federal levels since no one would give me the same answer if any verbally and that there's nothing wrong with wanting documents that protect me as well as him.

He freaked out worse said he won't have me acting all high and mighty when I can't perform my duties and know nothing when he's been doing this 40 years. And that I get paid what I'm worth not a dollar more and that's that and hes the owner so i do what im told or im not performing my duties.

So when I said no its not he told me to get my stuff and get out that I couldn't document anything as I walked into the office to get my info and that they would figure out what I was owed and since I was no longer employed I couldn't be on that computer.

So I took it and walked out, all I said was this shows me I don't need to be here. What you said about not caring about my family and being robbed, etc and that I inconvenienced him with my personal life told me I shouldn't be there and that this is the lesser of evils.

 

Dude when I was passed out and randomly gave the day off he sent a coworker to wake me up and grab the on call stuff to run the buisness and said he deserved a phone call and shouldn't have actually taken 24 hours off. He never once asked if I was okay, if we could somehow make things better, etc. It was your not working enough, being tired isn't a excuse and when you can miss calls and sleep depends on when we say you can. Wether that's a day off or until you drop.

 

Oh he fired me for asking questions and a officer calling and saying I was overworked and needed rest. That cop showed more worry than my boss. Honestly I just don't have a good position right now. It was paycheck to paycheck. So I'll probably just go back to commercial an residential construction or restoration like I did for so many years and certified in specifically water mitigation and restoration. I understand it, good at it, this was just a shot in the dark on something out of my wheelhouse. And it's just until the equipment gets here for my and my partners company and everything wraps up In the next month or so.

This just happened a few weeks before I needed it too..