IFTA payment responsibility?

Because he's the captain of the ship. The IFTA sticker is on each side of the truck and the license (with clearly marked expiry date) should be in his permit book.

Expensive education for a newbie, hopefully things get better for him.

 

It is the operators (drivers) responsibility to make sure everything is in order and notify the company when and if it isnt, but there are smaller and medium sized companies that would pay that fine in a heartbeat without question. Drivers at large carriers are usually always notified per qualcom when stickers are due and are warned to not leave a terminal without them. If he was warned the truck needed the IFTA and he forgot and left without it then yes...its his fine. The big companies are always going to pass the blame somehow...you can depend on it. Go back through the QC messages and see if he was sent a message regarding the sticker. I feel there *could* be a little more to the story you're not aware of.

 

Depends on the carrier too... mine required us to have our "permit packages" in the truck before January 1st - either pickup at the yard or FedX'd to a location of our choice. Multiple QC reminders to get this done, and paperwork into the permit books before January 1st. There were also multiple QC reminders to have the stickers on the truck during February.

For the company types, they'd probably pay the ticket - but there's not much room for an excuse here. For our lease-op and owner-op types, the bill is on them.

 

All very good points Rambler. Having never worked for a large fleet or had a Quallcom I didn't think of those things.

I sense from the wife's response there have been "other" surprises too.

 

Part of the reason there's such a high turnover in new drivers... the "surprises" that the trucking life brings.

 

Paper work inspection is part of your pre-trip.

 

I've been hearing that several states seem to be quite a bit late on getting those out this year also.