The DOT has been at L & H for the last 2 weeks tearing the office apart. :lol: They have been taking written statements from many drivers saying the company also forced them to drive illegal. They even got a dispatcher to come out and admit to it. The fines are adding up!

I even was threatened to be blacklisted by the safety director for being the Whistle Blower.

This just shows you how un-professional the company really is.

Will let you know more when I know more.

 

What really will (and should) shock these drivers is when they also get fined for running illegal.. as they should.

 

Fozzy there was a Dispatcher that admitted to the FEDERAL DOT that they were forcing the drivers to run ILLEGAL what part of that post did you not read.

 

While the dispatcher may have admitted to forcing the driver's to run illegal it still doesn't excuse the drivers. They still had the option to refuse to drive illegal. Yes I know they may have been terminated. But as it turned out now they will most likely be fined alone with the company. In addition if the case is bad enough they may lost their authority and the drivers will be out of a job.

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They should be lucky if they get fined only. People went for to jail for it
here in Pa.

 

I think that because there was a fatility involved the owner of the company will be facing some jail time. I talked with the DOT personally and asked them what I may face. He said "were are going after the company."

The owner of the company is so far out of touch with what goes on, he doesn't have a clue what to do now.

It's time he steps aside and get someone else in there to run the company. That's if there is anything left after the fines and paying off the lawsuit from the family of the woman that was killed.

I know the law firm that is going after them on her behalf and they won't accept anything less than top dollar. And with all the evidence stacked against L & H the lawyers can pretty much name their price and L & H will have to pay up.

Sounds to me that L & H are approaching their final days :lol:

 

I just wanted to put my input into the whole NE problem. It is very true that many drivers feel the need to run illegal just to pay the bills. A lot of you say well then go work somewhere else, well that is kind of hard when all the other companies EXPECT you to run as many hours as need each day. I left a local concrete company because they didn't take care of their trucks and I almost died when the front sway bar let lose on my front discharge concrete truck at 55 with 8 yards of concrete on. They also had us working 16+ hour days, which is VERY common in the concrete business during the busy season.

The NE regional guys have it bad also as other posters have said, they have short run's that take all day but still get paid by the mile or percentage. It's hard to live in the NE when you aren't making 800+ a week bring home. I know a lot of you don't care how hard times are for other people but just imagine it was you and your family who were struggling and tell me what you would do.

IMO regional drivers should be paid by the hour, then there would be no reason for the drivers to want to drive illegal. Just my two cents from living in the northeast for my 23 years.

 

Did they blame the front end on those darned grease worms? Seems like here in Oklahoma the North American Grease worms are thicker than bol weevils!!!

 

Nope they tried to blame it on me, saying that I should have caught it in my pretrip. Now I always did a real good pretrip on anything I drove when I worked there because the mechanics were pretty shady, hell the drivers had to change their own tires. But when I checked it that morning there were only normal sings of wear and it was not lose enough to move by shaking it.

I went straight to the owner of the company and told him if they didn't get their act together soon PA DOT and my lawyer would be talking to them. They soon starved me out by making me pay half of several DOT tickets I got in a different truck of theirs, even though the Trooper made it out to the company only since everything he found was in my pretrip report for several days.

 

Yeah, I know of what you were going through. When I first moved to okie-homie, there was an outfit here called EMFL (earn more for lester). I refused to drive four of the five trucks on the yard one day, of course all four of the trucks were out being driven by the time I returned from Dallas.. :roll:

We're talking steering falling apart, brake chambers hanging by airlines and things like that... the drivers of course just hopped in em and drove the heck out of them.... :roll: