I stumbled upon a complaint involving the firing of a pcs employee.
I also was an employee of pcs.
I was hired at a flat rate of 100.00 per line haul, yakima to mosses lake and back.
This should take 4 to 6 hours.
Shortly after starting they began dumping extra routes on me with no more compensation.
This continued the entire time i worked there. New deliverys and pickups added to the so called "line haul", with no added compensation. Then they began shortening the times i had certified on a time clock, this in turn caused my drivers log to not match my time card. When i brought this up i was told not to keep a drivers log, and the times didnt matter since i was a flat rate driver.
They do matter to me my livelyhood as a driver, depends on me keeping an accurate log book, for the multiple hauls i do. It only takes one scale master checking my log and it being over 11 hours for me to lose my license.
Then they reduced the flat rate from 100.00 a haul to 95.00 per day. WTF i was hired for a line haul not per day!!! I asked whats this all about an was told there version of a line haul means per day.
I think its safe to say most the workers were pissed about this.
There is to much more to list here an i also had done wrong. I was written up for an incident involving me doing a burnout in my own car on company property. And i was written up for 1 time not picking up freight from a place until then i had just done as a favor to another driver. I did end up getting it and delivering it anyways but was still written up for not picking up another routes freight as i had done before... Another wtf...
There was never any mention of the many times i got the freight thru ontime or early when every freeway was shut down to blizzard conditions. Grumbles...
I do need to mention that moses lake bunch were very good at there jobs my problems were with yakima an tricities bunch.
Although i still disagree that i was fired,
my problem is well ill explain...
I had to share a truck with another driver who left molded food in the truck constantly.
On july 4th around 2:30am i stopped to take a required time off driving. The truck stunk bad so i left the windows down a few inches, an locked the doors. I proceeded to do a little fishing. When i returned to the truck there was smoke boiling out of the windows. When i opened the door i discovered fireworks had been shot thru the window an burned out inside the cab.
I cleaned up the smoke damage, finished my route, and filed a report.
I expected i would be written up for the incident, but never imagined on 07-22-09 almost a month later i was fired, supposedly for that incident. During that month, i refused to haul hospital beds contaminated with deadly M.R.S. A, ya thats right they told me i would be fired if i didnt haul beds contaminated with a lethal disease. They found a dumber driver to haul them rather then lose the contract they were not equiped to handle. I had brought up tires being bald with cords showing thru around same time. I had logged an reported intermittent electrical problems an loss of power in 2 trucks, eventually one of them broke down after problem was never addressed. A friend of mine, fired an employee that was under my supervisor, who then retaliated by firing me. Strange coincidences? This was just a few of the not so right things that were going on.
That said i left no incident or anything an thought well ill miss my friends met there.
About 6 months went by with no employers responding to applications, so i filed for unemployment.
I was refused unemployment, reason... Terminated for ciggarete burn in seat.
If it had said something like didnt fully secure truck i would have no issues but to say i burned a hole in the seat with a ciggarete, is an out right lie.
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