New rules in Chicago area

I heard that if you drive as a company driver in a company truck,.. being 1099 is a bad idea with potential fines to the company owner. As long as you pay your taxes,.. IRS cant do anything to you as a driver under 1099. Its the 'Carrier' taking the risk.

But as an O/O,.. they cant stop you from being 1099 contractor as long as your buying your own fuel, loads are not force dispatched, and your pretty much doing your own thing.

I had a learning curve to really understand what and how 1099 works. I was pretty ignorant about it for a long time.

Hurst

 

Good they need some mega regulation on all these BS companies in the Chicagoland area... Way to many companies paying drivers on a 10-99 while the driver is driving a COMPANY truck... And just about all of those companies have the worst CSA scores in the industry...I Hope they start dropping the Hammer on these companies and shutting them down

 

But the companies that are in question are NOT treating their 1099 drivers as Owner/Operators. They DO force dispatch...and if you don't do anything and everything you are asked (or forced) to do, they will gladly can your butt and keep every penny you earned up to that point. (Haven't you seen the documents and threads?)
They are Russians, Bosnians, and Polish immigrants dodging this Countries system and their obligation to pay taxes like the rest of us have to.

It screws us all in the end. It screws the driver out of funds that are supposed to be 'credited' as contribution to Social Security. At the end of the year YOU won't get away with not paying your taxes...so how do THEY get away with it.

Enough is enough with these freaking clowns...they need to learn the rules (and English by the way), and contribute to the system by paying their fair share.
You know....everybody wants to come here (America) and get rich, and be free...but they don't want to follow the rules. It is time they learn, or pay the consequences. And by that I mean DO IT RIGHT or get the hell out. I am sick of them.
My last check? The Government took more money than the net pay of someone making $11.00 an hour on a 40 hour week---and it pissed me off to know end. BUT I PAID IT, and had no choice in doing so.

I'm not sure what kind of "deal" the Government gives to migrating Bosnians in my area...but there are LOTS of them, and they buy a truck or two, or three once they come here (how I don't know), and then the trucks sit in Waterloo, IA. at the Casey's truck stop on Hwy. 20 & 63 or at the Flying J and Pilot at exit 68 (Evansdale/Elk Run Heights)---go into these places and see for yourself---if it says "Waterloo, IA." on the door under their company name, it is a Bosnian owned truck, and will sit there taking up space for weeks and months at a time. And there are a LOT of them.
Fishy if you ask me. Makes me think the Government has given them money to start a business...and then don't require them to show a profit, and they use the business as a Government sponsored Visa into the country...and then go work at Tyson or something, and leave the truck parked.

That is MY views on the matter. Who knows? But it is frustrating and annoying.

 

You are correct. As "immigrants", they qualify for interest free gov't loans, which they don't pay back.

 

Explain that please.

 

You dreaming my friend. This is not Socialist Canada. Legal immigrants come here a few ways, as an political immigrant, as a green card lottery winner and as sponsored proffessionel hired from american company. Non of these programs guarantee you a government loan, only the right to enter and work in USA. You must buy your own ticket and bring some cash to support your self. If you can get a loan from US Bank, later on, this is the Bank decision.

 

Boy since they banned all the ones on here who have years of experience and knowledge it's just the blind leading the blind now!

Not to worry, I'm feeling charitable this morning and am here to help.

A 1099 is for reporting annual earnings to the IRS.

To lease a truck to a carrier a lease contract is required.

Verdel, you're all confused on your terminology. First, who dispatches you truck has no thing to do with IRS earnings reporting. Second, a "company" is not a legal entity. You would either be a sole proprietor, or some type of corporation (LLC, S, etc.). Third, "Contractor" is just anyone who signs a contract. Fourth, I can't even imagine what authority the city of Chicago has to do with any of this business.



Over and out. I'm back to watching this forum's slow downward spiral to it's miserable death.