A Tennessee truck driver who blew the whistle on Brush Creek,
TN-based trucking company Mark Alvis after he was terminated for
refusing to drive a truck due to illness, fatigue and being over
on his driving hours has been awarded $30,000 in compensation
and ordered reinstated to his job by the Dept. of Labor.  While
making a delivery, the truck driver claimed he was assigned an
additional delivery despite informing a dispatcher that he had
fallen and injured himself, was ill and did not have enough
hours available to complete the new assignment, according to
OSHA. The trucking company alleged the driver wasn’t terminated,
but quit his job after arriving back at the company’s
headquarters. (The Dept. of Labor does not release names of
employees involved in whistleblower complaints.)  After an
investigation, a DOL judge ruled in favor of the driver and
ordered that the truck driver be reinstated. The settlement
terms also include a lump sum payment of $30,000 to the employee
and assurances that no employee exer