bankrupt45
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? I live in Georgia. I am a commercial truck driver. I have been licensed for 17 years. I was hired two weeks ago for a trucking company. Everything was fine until a few days ago. I was told to do local pickups and drop offs starting at 1:00 p.m. I was going back and forth between cities within a 45 mile radius until 7 p.m. I was then assigned a load to pickup at 8 p.m. 10 miles from my starting point that had to be delivered at 6 a.m. 280 miles away, which is 4h15min. driving time. I delivered that load at 6 and was dispatched another load due for pickup 45 miles away at 11 a.m. I picked that up but it took them almost 3 hrs to load. This load had to be in Atlanta, Ga by 4 a.m. which is 480 miles from my pickup. That is equivalent to 7h45min additional driving time. That was alright except they had me stop 3 additional times to pickup more live loads. By the time i finished the last pickup, it was 1 a.m. and I was still 239 miles out with only 1 legal driving hour left. After I phoned the owner and told him I could not legally nor physically make that load on time, he got angry and said all I needed to do was take a quick nap and get the truck back to rolling. I reiterated to him that all I had left was 1 hour to drive before I had to take the required 10hr break. He was upset and told me to bring the truck back to the terminal which was exactly 1hr away. He had another driver ready to take the load as soon as I got there and told me to just go home. I called him back after my break but he would not return my calls. Finally, today, he said he could not use me because, " I've got to keep that truck rolling no matter what". Was I wrongfully terminated?
