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Unhappy-maximus
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TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS
I need some advice. Do you think I have a good case for a lawyer to persue or am i barking up a dead tree. I contracted to deliver a product and drove aproxximately 2000 miles a week. My wife and I did this for 4 years with no problems. We never missed a week and were consistant in our delivery times and never had any packages missing. About a year ago, we were asked by the company we work for (I will call it ABC)to acquire One million dollars worth of cargo insurance and accident insurance because a company driver (we were independent) ran over a DOT worker and severely hurt him. We asked if this would be conpensatable. We were told that we would be given $75.00 more dollars a week to compensate for having to buy this insurance. We were stupid not to get this in writing. We never received the $75.00 a week. After two months, we contacted the main company, the XYZ, and asked if we could contract the job directly and not subcontract. The man in charge of the distribution service XYZ(a huge company I might add) said sure and we emailed a bid and I have his return email that he said that he hoped that we would keep this in confidence. We never heard anything so we kept on working because we liked what we did and was still able to make a small profit on the money we made. We go to work 3 weeks ago and was told that we would have to go to a stop count pay scale instead of the flat rate we had been paid. This would decrease our pay over 250 a week. We just bought a new 30,000 diesel truck with the understanding that we would have this job to pay for it too. The woman in charge of the terminal told us that they would no longer have the contract with the xyz company anymore so we should persue contracting with the main company. I contact the man who we sent the bid to a year earlier and he said that no that he never heard that the ABC company was quitting business with the XYZ company. Within a half an hour, the owner of the ABC company called and said we were fired. We have a written contract and I am sure we could get the $200 fee for no notice, but my question is, would it be worth it to persue the price of the new truck and the insurance that we were required to carry. How do you fight a big company? Any comments or questions would help. My wife says move on and we will find something else to do. I want to go over the man at the XYZ company and expose his poor business tactics and somehow get our jobs back. Now I am stuck with a new Dodge truck and nothing to haul.
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I need some advice. Do you think I have a good case for a lawyer to persue or am i barking up a dead tree. I contracted to deliver a product and drove aproxximately 2000 miles a week. My wife and I did this for 4 years with no problems. We never missed a week and were consistant in our delivery times and never had any packages missing. About a year ago, we were asked by the company we work for (I will call it ABC)to acquire One million dollars worth of cargo insurance and accident insurance because a company driver (we were independent) ran over a DOT worker and severely hurt him. We asked if this would be conpensatable. We were told that we would be given $75.00 more dollars a week to compensate for having to buy this insurance. We were stupid not to get this in writing. We never received the $75.00 a week. After two months, we contacted the main company, the XYZ, and asked if we could contract the job directly and not subcontract. The man in charge of the distribution service XYZ(a huge company I might add) said sure and we emailed a bid and I have his return email that he said that he hoped that we would keep this in confidence. We never heard anything so we kept on working because we liked what we did and was still able to make a small profit on the money we made. We go to work 3 weeks ago and was told that we would have to go to a stop count pay scale instead of the flat rate we had been paid. This would decrease our pay over 250 a week. We just bought a new 30,000 diesel truck with the understanding that we would have this job to pay for it too. The woman in charge of the terminal told us that they would no longer have the contract with the xyz company anymore so we should persue contracting with the main company. I contact the man who we sent the bid to a year earlier and he said that no that he never heard that the ABC company was quitting business with the XYZ company. Within a half an hour, the owner of the ABC company called and said we were fired. We have a written contract and I am sure we could get the $200 fee for no notice, but my question is, would it be worth it to persue the price of the new truck and the insurance that we were required to carry. How do you fight a big company? Any comments or questions would help. My wife says move on and we will find something else to do. I want to go over the man at the XYZ company and expose his poor business tactics and somehow get our jobs back. Now I am stuck with a new Dodge truck and nothing to haul.
[This message has been edited by Unhappy-maximus (edited June 12, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Unhappy-maximus (edited June 13, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Unhappy-maximus (edited June 13, 2000).]