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Judge Orders * USA - Carrier to Pay $150,000, Reinstate Fired Driver
Springfield, MO,USA -Teamsters for Democratic Union -March 16, 2010: -- In a decision issued on March 15, 2010, Department of Labor Judge, Daniel Leland, ruled that New Prime, Inc. illegally fired Cynthia Ferguson because she refused to continue operating a commercial vehicle in hazardous weather... In Ferguson v. New Prime, Inc., Ferguson, a leased driver for Prime, was fired shortly after she refused to drive through Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with a loaded tractor-trailer set during hazardous weather... Prime alleged that it fired Ferguson because she operated the truck at a deficit... Near Reno, Nevada on Christmas, 2008, Ms. Ferguson observed hazardous driving conditions as she drove. After consulting other drivers, listening to radio weather reports and receiving reports from the state authorities advising against travel, Ferguson advised Prime that she was not going to drive through Donner Pass until weather and driving conditions improved. When her dispatcher, Jeremy Thomas, read the message he told her "why didn't you cross it [Donner Pass] yesterday? You should have been across the country twice by now." A few days later Thomas recommended that Prime fire Ferguson, which management did... (Photo from trains.com: A helicopter view of the westbound City of San Francisco buried in snow on Donner Pass)
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