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Can a company search items of a driver's container if that container is already open?

For example, a trucking company who suspects one of their drivers of fraudulent activity. That driver leaves a container or briefcase open and the items are viewable...can a company official look through those items and use them as evidence for termination?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If he is on company time in a company vehicle, he as no expectation of privacy, and the container can be searched by the company.

    The Fourth Amendment provisions of search and seizure apply to the government, not to private business.

    Source(s): 17 years law enforcement
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Container, perhaps, PERSONAL NONEMPLORER provided briefcase NO WAY.

    Unless he/she is under contract just fire them you do not need an excuse.

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