We provide constant improvement with programs at our top-notch truck driving school, for example, and offer clear paths to increased responsibility in trucking job duties-and to the increased pay that goes along with it. Colorado-Denver is a full service company specializing in making time-sensitive deliveries, and offering several levels of service to meet specific requirements and delivery schedules. This is what insurance is for, justice being served and being punative towards a driver who was falsifying his log-book about time driven, just to get back home for Christmas, or more often than not, the company clock and bonus for getting away with it.
First, most trucking companies have an auditing system to stop or keep this problem from happening altogether. If he was going home, and the truck was sitting, how did that benefit the company? Other than hiring the guy, what did the company do wrong? I just get a bit edgy when people try to blame truckers and try to sue trucking companies because of their own lack of judgment, lack of common sense and courtesy on the road. The injured party deserved the judgement, but I have to ask, what fault did the company play other than owning the truck?
I suspected from the article in the Arizona paper, that the trucking company was aware that this particular driver was falsifying log books and that it did nothing to stop or discourage the practice.