A driver from the CACH was threatened with termination for this very same situation. She was dispatched to the Conrail terminal at 63rd and State on the south side of Chicago,in the middle of the night, and found her trailer to also have no working lights whatsoever. She called the CACH and at first spoke to a sup,and then a manager who both told her to bring the trailer back so it would make the sort. She pointed out the safety issue repeatedly and was ultimately told by the manager that she could either bring the trailer back or she could secure the tractor and consider herself terminated and find her own way back to the building. Mind you,Conrail 63rd is in a south side neighborhood the equivalent to downtown Baghdad. The driver caved and brought the trailer back.
The unions stand on this was that she should have found a witness to the conversation,and called a cab or rode back with another driver once one arrived. Complaints were filed on the manager and this ,along with his numerous other actions against employees, got him busted down to supervisor and transfered to the Addison hub where he is still racking up complaints.