my story at my most recent company

i want to keep company name anonymous(ill call it "my company" below) because it's not a bash against them, but more so the practices. and i wanted to hear your opinions on it. if the facts i am mention below is true, then did my company do blunder on how they handled the situation? is my proposed solutions a good path forward? how likely am i to get fired after confronting my company about the proposed solutions? anything i mentioned do you disagree with on proposed solutions?


back story,


im in probation period first 90 days with employer.


i am in good standing. no accidents. attendance perfect. always ontime delivery.





during that 90 days my codriver got into 2 accidents(2nd accident was near the end of the 90 days probation), these were minor accidents where pulling out of a tight spot trailer swing connected with trailer next to it in parking lot. in first accident was some torn seals on the door. 2nd accident was just minor scratches but still technically an accident of 2 trailers making contact. so in both scenarios i took picture of accident as it happened. and told partner we are suppost to report accidents even if small just to be safe because company didn't ascertain how severe the accident needs to be, so we should call it in to be safe.




the result of this was codriver retaliated against me, didnt want to team with me anymore.



then company doesn't do reasonable accomodation to assign drivers new codriver if asked. so when my codriver asked for another codriver, the company relatiated against me for it, and failed my probationary period off of defamatory remarks against me.


most trucking companies provide reasonable accomodation to drivers who ask for another codriver without doing any adverse employment actions.which is how it's suppost to be done to create a safe workplace for teams trucking jobs. my company does opposite and does adverse employment actions if codrivers ask to seperate.



my personal verdict:


1. my company in my opinion is guilty of retaliation for me to speak up against unsafe work conditions,


2. coersion for me to not report accidents,


3. and guilty of not providing safe workplace of reasonable accomodation for drivers who ask for another codriver.


4. they are also guilty of defamation as i didn't do anything reasonable to justify me failing probationary period.


proposed solution:



1. the proposed solution is to appeal or remove the adverse employment action done against me. the stuff i experienced easily qualifies as retaliation for speaking up about work place safety conditions, coersion to not report accidents, and also defamatory adverse employment action done against me. there is laws and/or regulations against each of these things as part of employer's responsibilities.


2. my company, i feel needs to modify how they assign driver's codrivers to match how most companies do it. there needs to be more flexibility from my company on assigning drivers codrivers. should be random and if driver's ask to be together longer term then the company can do that, but there should be no asking drivings to stay together and forcing it and doing adverse write ups if the workers want seperation or another codriver.


the result would be safer work place for teams drivers. failure to accomodate drivers this way is a workplace hazard for workers.