company prohibits "doing company business on motorcycle"

[doze]

Unless you are being reimbursed and have agreed to use your own vehicle you should not be doing company business in your own car. You are wasting your own gas money and putting unnecessary wear and tear on your vehicle. Do company business in their car, and if they do not want to provide you with a car then just say sorry we will have to order everything and have it delivered to us.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: Reel
Insurance is my guess too.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: hellokeith
Call OSHA or your state workforce commission. If you live in a right-to-work state, you may be out of luck.

right-to-work, WTF does an anti-union law have to do with anything.

 

[her209]

What about a Vespa?

 

[BlitzCraig64]

it is an insurance issue....even if you have your own insurance as most people do, and you have an accident while travelling on some work related task your insurance company could claim that your employer should be liable for the damages.......even if it is not very likely to happen they would still not allow it as it is a risk.....

 

[stnicralisk]

Originally posted by: jtusa
Tell them to buy you a car if they don't like it.

Youre all acting like tards. If he gets hurt on the clock he is entitled to compensation. Why should they be forced to take the higher risks involved with people on motorcycles?

If he doesnt like it he should quit. Sometimes you have to be willing to see things from the other side of the looking glass.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk

Originally posted by: jtusa
Tell them to buy you a car if they don't like it.

Youre all acting like tards. If he gets hurt on the clock he is entitled to compensation. Why should they be forced to take the higher risks involved with people on motorcycles?

If he doesnt like it he should quit. Sometimes you have to be willing to see things from the other side of the looking glass.

What if you are using public transportation system and the bus that you are on has a bomb strapped to it and will explode if the bus goes below 50MPH. :Q:shocked:

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk

Originally posted by: jtusa
Tell them to buy you a car if they don't like it.

Youre all acting like tards. If he gets hurt on the clock he is entitled to compensation. Why should they be forced to take the higher risks involved with people on motorcycles?

If he doesnt like it he should quit. Sometimes you have to be willing to see things from the other side of the looking glass.

:shocked:

 

[spidey07]

Nothing illegal at all.

You can choose to work there or you can find another job.

It really is that easy. If you don't agree to their policy then you certainly don't have to work there.

 

[CaptnKirk]

There's more liability at the end of anyone that might be involved as the recipient of an accident while
someone in their employment is on the motorcycle and gets into a wreck.

Who has the deeper pockets - the rider or the employer ?

 

[mugs]

I see nothing wrong with prohibiting it, especially if it opens them to liability.

 

[Zenmervolt]

The company can specify this.

However, if your only vehicle is a motorcycle, then the company cannot require you to buy a car just to run company errends. The company most likely either needs to exempt you from having to run company errends, or they need to provide a pool car for anyone to use on company business. I do not believe that you can get fired for this as long as you refuse to run errends on the motorcycle (though you could get fired for running an errend on your motorcycle because that's breaking company policy).

ZV