Total BS what you did. If you had any idea what truckers go through you would not have made them drive through that weather. The work rule was there for a reason, the drivers safety and public safety.
Congratulations on your contribution to the race to the bottom. Your post so infuriates me with its smug ignorance I can hardly keep my post civil. You sir, are ...
Obviously the union goons were wrong. The shipper called in the non-union co. and the load got to its destination safely.
Like I've always said: you can't argue with success.
The work rule was there to protect the union, nothing more. If there was a genuine road danger, the non-union trucking company would have told us so. So would have the vendor at the shipping point of origin. Or the authorities would have closed the road.
If I had called in sick during a critical work day and my company had caught me in the lie, they'd fire my ass just as quickly as I fired the union trucking company.
If these jag-offs want to lie to me in the future, they'd better be able to make up a lie far more credible than one which can be blown out of the water with a quick phone call to the vendor or an internet search on road conditions in a particular area.