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> it is perfectly legal for a company to have a driver break the law IANAL but i can guarantee it's not - whether or not it gets enforced on the other hand...
by cat199 5y ago
> it is perfectly legal for a company to have a driver break the law
IANAL but i can guarantee it's not - whether or not it gets enforced on the other hand...
- syshum 5y agoThe companies are very careful in the language and punishments. If a driver refuses a load because the trucks turn signals are out as an example, well the company will not come right out and say "You must take the load" but that driver will likely find himself sitting for possible days unpaid waiting for the next dispatch as punishment or they will be assigned the less profitable routes, etc I know personally more than a few drivers that would pay out of their own pocket to buy parts to fix trucks themselves so they would not end up in this dispatch punishment.
- datavirtue 5y agoWhy isn't there a national truckers union?
- kingaillas 5y agoMissing a /s tag? Isn't that the (International Brotherhood of) Teamsters?
- cudgy 5y agoThis might explain one good reason that there is a shortage of drivers.
- radicaldreamer 5y agoThis is the same story in the taxi business... cross the dispatcher and you're going to be SOL