Towing bill

Maybe theres a forum on the internet for trucking company owners to advise each other on the best ways to stick it to drivers....

 

i've been stuck once, after i just got unloaded. but nothing i could do about it. only had one path in and out. and for some reason still unknown to me. they had a water hose watering DIRT. which developed a puddle on my only path in and out.

guy i delivered to, paid for the wrecker to get me out though. kind of a lousy deal and a very bad day for that guy. come to find out from his wife, he got a phone call 5 minutes before i called to say i was there. that his mother had passed away.

never been stuck to block traffic though.

 

Equipment owner pays! If the employees productivity does not outweigh the losses, then you find a new employee.

 

Has anyone realised that if they don't reimburse the driver,the owners will actually make money on this incident?
The driver gave them the bill(=invoice) so they will claim it as a loss to the IRS.

 

I'd pay it if I owned the truck. Depending on the circumstances would determine what happened afterward. If they have any kind of safety bonus or whatever then I guess maybe they withhold that. Even the best sometimes make a mistake or get themselves into a sticky situation. Could be that the driver did the best thing at that point without tearing anything else up. Hard to know without having all the details.

 

No wonder the industry is going to ####. Enabling bone head drivers! A guy ##### up and you guys expect the company to pay for it. Yeah, yeah, you say company assumes all responsibility but this driver plain ###### up. The right thing to do is pay the tow bill himself. Might make him think twice about ####### up again!

 

The driver gave them the bill(=invoice) so they will claim it as a loss to the IRS. Cost the owner more $ to claim it ( its not MEGA MILLIONS ) than he would get back so owner would not be any further ahead

 

Insurance company or the owner of the trailer.

The owner. He yells at the driver. Or he gives the driver "beach time without pay," or he fires the driver.

Where is the enabling when you fire his arse? Darn right the company pays for it. It is their equipment, and they are the ones responsible for it. They pay for it, fire the driver. Hopefully the driver learns from his mistake, and the company hires a more mature, responsible driver. What exactly is wrong with this?

You are getting into a very murky area here when you are going to start charging your hired help when they make a mistake. Where does it end? Does the grocery clerk end up paying for the jar of mayonnaise that he dropped and broke?

When a mechanic screws up and does some damage to your vehicle, while trying to repair it, who gets stuck with the bill? The mechanic sure as hell doesn't, neither does the shop he works for, (although it should.) The owner of the vehicle winds up paying for somebody else's mistake.

 

If they said they'd pay for the tow, then they should reimburse the driver. Since he paid for the tow out of pocket WITHOUT receiving authorization from the company, then the company is under no obligation to reimburse. His only recourse would be to quit and not drive for them anymore. The tow company (or the driver) COULD have contacted the truck owner to arrange payment over the phone, either with a credit card, comcheck, or by some other means without requiring the driver to dig into his own pocket. If the company paid the bill, their options are limited in how they might recover the expense...payroll deductions have limits under the law, but it is easy to refuse a reimbursement.

I view it no differently than the driver ripping a bumper off the truck, taking it upon himself to have the truck repaired, and then submitting the repair bill to the company for reimbursement. Not going to happen. You got yourself into a jam, and decided to pay out of your own pocket to get yourself out of the situation without consulting me to see if I might have another possible remedy regarding my truck. If you'd wanted me to pay for it, you should have consulted with me prior to authorizing the work and paying for it yourself.

 

I know of a few companies that make the drivers pay the towing if indeed it was the drivers fault.They take 50 a week out of your check.I paid for towing twice and didn't tell the company because I didn't want it to go on my record.It really depends on the situation.If its the drivers fault and could have been prevented then I do think the driver should pay for the towing.Otherwise the company.