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I was recently terminated from my carrier over an argument with management.

The company I was working for installed an AI camera that was watching me all day long and endlessly criticizing me with a petulant school teacher voice.

I had grown weary of being endlessly criticized, and I began sticking my middle finger up at the camera every time it said something.

The company ignored my middle fingers for 2 months, but eventually they pulled me into their safety office and wrote me up for “unsafe driving”. It was at this point I believe they decided to fire me. In the next 2 weeks I drove 5 loads before returning to my home terminal.

The morning after I returned to the home terminal, I got a call from safety claiming that I had a “hard break” event resulting in the loss of cargo in the amount of $1,200. I was told I was terminated and that I should clean out my truck.

I was skeptical of their claims that I had damaged cargo, because it was a sealed load. Drop and hook at both ends where I was not allowed to inspect the load. I had no chance to even see how the trailer was loaded, no chance to install load locks, and the load had been partially powered by another driver before I relayed it to the receiver.

The employee handbook that I signed off on before being hired says that drivers are liable for up to $500 per “incident”.

However my final paycheck stubs (2 weeks) indicate that $2,200 in pay had been deducted from my pay. Their claim was that all 5 loads in between my “middle finger” write-up and my termination were damaged. At that point i was 100% sure they were lying about load damage and used it as an excuse to steal my final 2 weeks pay.

My DAC reports indicate that i was fired for “Cargo Loss”, which I believe to be a lie.

I am currently filing a paycheck theft complaint with my states’ department of labor.

I want to clear my name with the DAC report because the company didn’t even follow thier own rules when it comes to incident damage, and I believe the entire claim to be a lie. When I was fired, I was told I had caused $1,200 in damage, there was a $500 deduction limit in the employee handbook, yet $2,200 was stolen from my final paychecks.