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shutterjack/Getty Images(NEW YORK) A deaf man who says a truck driving company told him that they would not hire him because he couldn t hear won over $36 million in damages by a jury a month ago. Victor Robinson, who is in his 40s and has lived his whole life deaf, told ABC News that Werner Enterprises trucking company passed him in their commercial driver s license (CDL) training program, but when he applied for a job in 2016, the company s Vice President of Safety and Compliance Jamie Hamm, who was Jamie Maus at the time, told him he wouldn t get the job. "It was really intense," Robinson told ABC News through an interpreter. "The person said, We can t hire you because you can t hear, and hung up [the video call]. And there it was. The end. And I got to the point where I didn t know what else to do." Robinson eventually reached out to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They reviewed his case and decided to file a lawsuit against Werne

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