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The one I have now don't understand about the equipment size and the relation to customer requirements that the route drivers have to deal with, with or without lift gates, and the 40, 45, or 53 foot trailers

 

We had a dispatch group with FFE in chicago Highland Office one time, We just escaped from Ontario via Buffalo and was grinding past Erie with a Phoenix AZ load (Team H/W) and looking forward to getting out of the land of ice at 18 mph and into 100 degree summer climes down there. (That and 2500 pay miles... none of this 400 mile nicky picky BS)

Chicago calls. Asks if they want us to get a Detrioter solo in MI and run his load to Brampton ON. Hes late.

I checked the Ontario weather and in a few moments understood they are a raging ice storm. We will be late too and another nicky picky 400 mile BS, this time at maybe 7 mph.

No.

What do you mean no?

No is no. Solo is late, we will be late and ON is fixing to close anyway. See you in Phoenix.

It was quite some time later we hear birdies talking about how Chicago did not like us not only telling them no but also the gospel of closure in ON chapter and verse in a proper ice storm. They don't like the word no. Even less when a load will be late anyway if it ever gets there.

Phoenix loved us. We had loads out of Nogales into Spring and summer that year. #### was that alot of miles from them. Whoo....

 

At the risk of awakening the resident legal scholar on this thread, let me rest your fears and say that, no, you would not get prosecuted as many would lead you to believe just by the general assumption of the law as it’s written.

What many do NOT realize about “illegally” obtained recordings is that they are usually allowed during discovery as long as they lead to admissible evidence. They would also have to be presented in a timely/appropriate manner to not provoke any discovery sanctions that would probably have the case thrown out of court.

In many courts that are in two-party states there are exceptions utilized to permit these recordings which otherwise are exclusively prohibited. Preparing a restraining order or impeaching the testimony of an individual are some examples.

Frio vs Superior Court and People vs Crow are two cases in CA are good examples of utilizing “illegally” obtained recordings in a two-party state court.

So it’s not as cut and dry as some would have you believe considering there are already precedents set in many states dealing with this issue already.