Is This Illegal?

[Luger187]

my dad is a truck driver. his company has a gps in the truck, and they know exactly where he is at, obviously. lets say he is going from the east coast somewhere to LA. when he hits the LA county border, his miles stop(they track mileage and pay based on that). so if his delivery is on the west side of LA, he doesnt get paid for the miles from the east side to the west side.

they seem to have rigged the system so they dont have to pay him for those miles. even though they ALWAYS know exactly where he is. shouldnt they be forced to write a program that stops the miles when he gets within like 500ft of his destination?

he has basically been working for free for months, after bills and fuel. he wants to quit trucking, but in order to get a local job, he needs his own car. he already has the title of a car that belonged to a friend, but its in another state and is going to cost money to get towed home. but he isnt getting paid

 

[racerboy71]

sounds kinda shady to me, but what do i know.. if they're going to stop paying him the minute he hits a certain spot, that's the exact spot i'd be dumping the trailer at for sure... it wouldn't take many calls asking wtf the trailer is at before they start to pay him again..either that or fire him, lol..

 

[tip top toker]

I'm with racer. Don't really know the laws, they could be using local laws where the company is based. I'd also be dumping the trailer, i don't work for free unless i chose to. Might be a good idea to look at his work contract to see what it details.

 

[DelSlow]

...do you own a baseball bat?

 

[stephaniesloan]

get legal advice, i am sure there must be a citizens advice bureau that is a free service he can contact, there is also a local job centre or somewhere that you can go to look for work, they may be able to put him on the right track, how long has it been going on, he may be able to sue for back pay and fuel and maybe even be able to resign and take them to an industrial tribunal for unfare work practises, this has got to be illegal, so lets say his gps tracker breaks down hundreds of miles away, do they pay him for the return journey as the crow flies, or do they assume its his responsibility to make and pay his own way home.
he could maybe even get a lawyer or someone to take his case and sue the company for lawyers fees and court costs too at the same time.

this is not legal.

and resorting to violence will not get anybody anywhere, in fact it would have the opposite effect.

my mates works van has a tracker, but it is only to stop people using the vans at night, as the company has 800 vans and one guy even used the van for a 2 week holiday in another country.
and the fuel bills ran in to millions for all the vans.
the fuel bills are now 1/3 of what they were.

drive the truck to your relative/friends car that he can have, and drive that home and leave the truck there.

but if the worst comes to the worst your dad can check around the internet for last minute cheap day flights, drive the truck 1000 miles plus or until the fuel is almost gone, and tell them to pick it up at such and such an airport, the guy on the other end of the phone, his arse will totally collapse, and make sure your dad leaves a massive parking bill, they will have second thoughts about doing it to other people, especially as he has used the truck fuel up for the return journey too.
he can tell them he felt unwell and had to fly home to see a specialist doctor.
tell them he felt unwell at the wheel and was terrified to stop the truck as he thought he was having heart failure and he was lost and was looking for an airport or hospital,
and there is not a fucking thing that they can do about it as long as he goes to hospital when he gets home.
he can even ask to see a doctor at the airport, wink,wink.

as soon as he leaves the plane he has to dispose of the ticket evidence and just says he cant remember what he was doing.

 

[Little Tommy]

These devices are/were called tattlers, they were originally designed to keep track of city vehicles so that people were not going home during work hours. Ain't technology wonderful.

 

[stephaniesloan]

These devices are/were called tattlers, they were originally designed to keep track of city vehicles so that people were not going home during work hours. Ain't technology wonderful.

actually they are satellitte tracking devices, they were actually invented by someone trying to protect vehicles from theft, especially huge diggers and excavating machines that could be stolen in one country and sold in another for 100,000 dollars.
then they were converted for ordinary vehicle theft, and the trackers work big time.

a friend of mine has one for vehicle security, he jumped in his car without disarming the system properly and his car phone rang, he answered it and the vehicle tracking technician asked his password, when he told him it, the technician said never do that again, my friend also asked where he was, the technicians exact words were, you are in edinburgh scotland driving along a street called stevenson drive , you are on the left hand side of the road driving east near the end of the street, there is a park to your right hand side and you are just passing whitson terrace on your left. my friend was absolutely astonished the guy pinpointed him to within a few yards. amazing.

 

[Luger187]

thanks for the advice!

technology is crazy nowadays. imagine the things the government has that we dont know about. were probably 10-20 years behind them

 

[heathaa]

in the state of florida a company is supposed to pay you for your time. if he has 1000s of miles built up that he wasnt paid for it might be worth getting a lawyer. but thats after researching whether or not the company can legally do it