The Company is asking the driver to pay for damaged load

When I was making the Englands richer.........(waiting for laughter to die down)....

I Asked, Confirmed in Loaded Call, Circled on BOL, And had Shipper Initial inside Circle. Yea a little overtop But when I Hauled a Load of Watermelons From Miss to NY at -20 I didn't feel a bit bad when they refuesed it.

 

on several of them it was stated that it was the DRIVER who was responsible on others it said the driver as a representative for the company.....I always read the #### fine print ....trust me I didn't like signing off on those so I made #### sure nothing went wrong with them!!!!

 

Prosecute usually means criminal. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

A rookie is a rookie. That's why they make low pay to help recover from accidents and cargo claims. It's possible he wasn't properly trained. Sounds like Central RT to me. There was no intent or malice. It was a dumb rookie mistake.

There are employees all over the country that cause problems in factories and such ruining machinery and stuff. I never heard of nothing other than a firing. Trucking companies think they can do what they want.

You hire in as a company employee, you are a risk to them from day one. That's why it pays to hire experienced drivers. That's why insurance is mandatory for a company. If a driver was liable, there would be insurance companies offering company drivers policies to protect them.
The only thing a company driver is liable for is DOT fines.

Then were back to get fired and get your DAC ruined or pay up!

Big overweight fines are a good example. The fine goes to the company. The driver quits and that's the end of it.

 

hmmm i think the overwieght fines should be on the drivers shoulders tho--unless he was forced to take the load-- i know it sounds contadictory to my other statements--but the driver is responible for the wieght of the truck
now if you are hauling melons ,even if you are told to set it at -20 and you do it--you should be forced to eat them suckers

 

You didn't feel bad because you covered your arse, but you knew better. When conflicts arise on the temp, I always call the receiver. They are the ones that accept or reject. Then say hey shipper, the customer wants it at this temp, what's the right temp?

Loaded calls on the Qualcoom and the Peoplenet get overlooked. They are just automated messages to get the load going on the computer. A dispatcher will glance at it and he's off to the next message.

 

Morally the driver should pay it. We had several drivers cross the restricted I-95 Pawtucket bridge in RI. To someone that doesn't live in the area the signs are misleading. I was routed across the bridge by the fuel desk too. I even called the fuel desk and asked him if it was okay to go that way. I was the only driver that paid the fine. The rest quit and nothing happened to them other than their DAC ruined.

 

how much was the fine?

 

What did he say ? He was routed across a restricted bridge, saw that and hard checked it with a phone call, crossed the bridge, was fined and paid it? Out of his pocket?

 

I've never paid an overweight ticket, I turn them in to the company, they pay them. If it's an inbound load, and the shipper, which is in another country typically, overloaded the container, we back charge them 1.5 times the fine, if it's a load that I picked up and it's overweight, I don't roll until I've double and triple checked with my dispatcher that it's okay. I have the final say on the weight, and if it's not legal, it won't roll.
That said, I did get a $5,500 overweight ticket back in '09 because of a screwup by a local shipper. We picked up this load of steel plate (old oil storage tanks they cut up), the idiot shipper didn't read his scale correctly and over loaded me. Since I was using one of our 3-axle chassis, my PSI guage on my tractor showed I was legal, which on my drives and steers I was. However, I was grossing 88,00 lbs, I kinda thought on the way back that it seemed awful heavy, then when I hit Ft. Collins and they wanted to do an inspection, that was when the overweight happened. Had to drop the container on the spot, the shipper paid the fine as well as sent a crew out to off-load the excess plates and make it legal.

However, speeding tickets and such are mine and mine alone to pay the fine and suffer the consequences.

 

Rightly said. The temp is key. That's why I choose dry van and not reefer