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Archie was a truck driver for the Michigan at-will "Good-ta-Eat " Bread Company, where he was an exemplary employee for 11 years

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Archie was a truck driver for the Michigan at-will "Good-ta-Eat

" Bread Company, where he was an exemplary employee for 11 years. He drove a company owned 2009 powder blue and pink striped Ford Step Van with a big company logo painted on each side. It was a stormy, wintry day in Michigan as Archie was out on his delivery route. He swerved to miss a pot hole, but went over a curb and hit Abigail, a bicyclist, knocking her off her bike causing a minor injury to her but "totaling" her bike. Archie immediately stopped; the police were called; and he made the requisite report. Archie called work and informed the boss, whereupon the boss told Archie to abandon the rest of his deliveries for the day and report directly back to the garage at company headquarters. Archie was miffed. He believed that he would be unjustly fired for sure.

Archie decided that since he was probably going to be fired, he should use the truck to transport a sofa from his mom's house to his apartment, as his car was not big enough to fit the sofa, and he planned to do it at the end of his shift anyway. The company didn't allow this, but "what it didn't know wouldn't hurt it!" Low and behold, on his 2-mile, out-of-the-way trip to get the sofa, Archie hit a different pothole dead center, and the back doors of the truck popped open allowing carts containing trays of bread to fall out onto the car behind him, causing the car's air bag to activate. The driver, Adelbert, was stunned, but not seriously hurt, but the damage to the car and replacement of the air bag would cost approximately $6000.00. Assume that Archie will be liable to for the cost of damages in both accidents, but he has little money to pay any damages.