Scott
Warren,#2UPDATE Employee
Thu, November 02, 2006
I was working for cr england I was in my caat training when I became ill.I phoned my upgrade manager in Indiana and told her that I needed off the truck that I was sick,she said she would work on it.My first seat also knew I was ill and told me he was going to drop me off in Indiana on his way to Arizona.Needless to say neither of these happened and I was stuck on his truck driving with him to Arizona.When we arrived in Phoenix it was 112 degrees and I was sleeping in the back when my first seat turned off the truck while waiting 4 hours to unload at shippers.I woke up in nothing but sweat and starting to dehydrate I called my upgrade manager again and requested off the truck again again she was working on it.We then continued on again and for the next three days I was getting really sick and staring to vomit.While we were in Texas I could barely see and was suppose to back in at a shippers I woke up my first seat and explained to him that I could not see and could he back the truck up.I then contacted my dm and told him i was sick and could not drive and was informed to sleep in the back until I felt better,but I would be taken off driving status,fine whatever. While I was sleeping my first seat lost three team loads and was pissed about this and he contacted his dm and told him that he wanted me off his truck now,finally some action was taken and I was dropped off at a hotel in Texas where I do not know.I passed out on the hotel floor and was informed by the hotel that I had to get to my room.I called 911 and was rushed to the hospital in septic shock.The doctors told me 6 more hours and I would not be here.When I filed for workmans comp I was told that it was my fault that I got sick because I had diabetes,even thoutgh they knew this when hiring me
Steve
Bradenton,#3Consumer Suggestion
Wed, April 26, 2006
Michael, First, I need to address the business license thing and the alleged 10 years of tax returns required to lease a truck from England. This is simply BS. 2 of my good friends leased from England. They both had terrible credit, no savings or investments and 1 was a brand new driver. Anyone with a heartbeat that can stay awake through the England school will get a CDL and get put into a lease truck. As a Lease Operator, you are an INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, which means NO ONE can tell you what to do or when to do it [legally]. As far as running illegally or operating while fatiqued, that is ON YOU. Period. You are the one ultimately responsible. You are the one who has to learn how to say NO. Log everything EXACTLY as it happens, and take notes. My advice is to get one of those spiral notebooks and make a record of everything anyone tells you. Names, dates, places, times, etc.. You can file a FMCSA complaint against anyone that tells you to operate illegally, and if it is documented, they will prosecute. NEVER run illegally for ANYONE. NEVER. NO EXCEPTIONS! YOU get the ticket, not the company. YOU end up in jail NOT the company. And it is you that will end up in the bodybag, NOT the dispatcher or DM. Just say NO.