Fired for refusing to drive due to fatigue.

What do you want out of this? Your not going to get some huge check. They may force the company to hire you back and I'm sure they will find a few hundred ways to make your life suck.

Forget it and move on.

 

seems to me you can refuse to drive for safety reasons but company has the right to have a driver that can do the job

 

Sounds to me like they let you go for not doing your job . You admit that you had more than enough time off . You screwed the pooch on this one so suck it butter cup man up and move on .

 

Good luck

Yup!

 

I am not surprised by the responses at all .
You stated it sill your fault that you did not do the job you were hired to do . You also stated that the company gave plenty of time off to get rested up but you didn't .

So based on what you told us we have to be honest and tell you you brought this all about by not performing your job properly . By properly I mean getting your rest like you were supposed to do . It is not the companies fault you did not sleep and could not do your job .

 

Driver, Know the job before signing on to it. These days with E-Logs they have to give you 10 hours off. The rest is up to you. If you cannot do night runs you need to bring this up at the time of hire. I did nights locally for 7 months and it wasn't for me. I really think I would have eventually rolled the truck if I continued working there. Find a local day job or take different runs and explain this to your next manager/recruiter. Trucking is not an easy job and you will have to adapt a bit. Good luck to you.