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Actual language is still there...Anything that "violates Federal, State, or local ordinances',......you can refuse to do. Just because the company is slavering to make more profit from a single employee doesn't mean that they have the right to force their employees to violate law. You know what will happen if a local policeman decides to enforce the law,......the DRIVER will pay the fine, with the subsequent points on HIS license,.......regardless of whether the dispatcher told you that "the company will pay any fine"..............They're admitting right there that they know it's illegal,....and they're lying by saying they'll "pay any fine".......Want proof? Get them to put it in writing,.......see how far that goes........The whole proposal in the new Transportation bill that Congress is trying to pass, about 33' doubles, and 58' long trailers comes from the idea that MOST drivers, especially non-Union ones,...can be brow-beaten into taking the larger equipment into places where it's not legal to go,......and carry ALL the liability for responsibility on their own shoulders......That pole that I was talking about that I had pulled down? We had gone to court, and neither the company, or the power company who owned the pole, or the cable company who strung the line, would admit any wrong-doing. As our contract insures that,...as long as we are not committing a Felony,.....or DELIBERATELY violating a law,..they must accept all actions of the employee as their responsibility......Non-Union employees DON'T have that protection........Well,.....A year later, I went to re-finance my house,...and the Bank informed me that I had an $8,000.00 judgement against me pending! Because NONE of the three companies involved would settle,...the person whose car got speared had his insurance company file a lawsuit against ME, My employer, the cable company, and the power company.....I was NEVER informed by the company's attorneys that I was a CO-DEFENDANT..........Within 15 minutes of me being in the terminal manager's office, we had the attorneys on the phone,.....and they had an affidavit sent to the finance company,.....and we had a settlement in this case within a week........So,......How long do you think ABF and their attorneys were going to keep me in the dark about being a CO-DEFENDANT in a Civil suit?.....Remember,.....it was the BANK who informed me of this,.....not my employer. I was under the impression that it was done and over a year ago. I have all the papers in this case,.....just in case some company weasel is monitoring this site and thinks I am "defaming" this company. I would welcome a First Amendment fight. So,.....For those of you who think the company will...."Take care of you"....in the event you do something illegal,.....or ,...as in my case,.......something NOT illegal,....but costly to the company,.........Well,....I can only wish and hope you don't get a rude awakening......I almost lost my house,....and didn't even know it...
