1099 as a company driver.

Haha .. been having a lengthy discussion about this over the past couple of days...

 

You just have to hold out your own taxes, which no one will do.

 

If you are a company driver and getting paid on a 1099, then it is like being a Kamikaze pilot with 15 successful missions! In other words, you cannot be both. If you are a company driver, which makes you an employee, getting paid on a 1099 is to the benefit of the cheaters paying you. And if they cheat you on that, everything else they can steal from you they will.

 

I have learned this the hard way over the past couple of months. Putting an end to it as soon as i am back home, I am beyond done!

 

Company employees aren't 1099 subcontractors.

There's a fine line that companies walk when they 1099 guys running under their authority. Lots of grey areas are being abused when it comes to how the feds define what an "independent" contractor is.

Just think about supposed "independent" contractors leasing a truck and running under the authority of said company being told what loads to run, how to run, when to run, etc.

That is not an independent subcontractor relationship.

 

Shoot, I am not even leasing the truck or anything. they are calling me sub-contractor. Should have know something was amiss when they didn't give me ANY paperwork what so ever. Only thing I have signed is my application for employment.

I got 4 pay stubs and then they stopped giving me those, saying their computer crashed, then it was out of ink... for MONTHS I didn't get a pay stub.. when I really started pushing the issue they told me I was getting 25% of each dropped load. "Would be getting 1099 so not to worry". Huh.. what? was my response.. so what your considering me a subcontractor? "yes" Then I asked for Rate Confirmations. They finally gave me pay stubs.. totally new ones including the ones they had already given me and the darn numbers on those don't match the numbers on the ones that they had originally given me..then I really started asking questions. Your pay me holiday pay and reimburse me for tolls and such but I am a contractor? Why is Rate whited out on this rate confirmation? (I had made a copy of the orignal one) Man then the runs stopped or they would have me on the road and leave me sitting for days.. Yeah watch out if they say "1099" man..

 

You're not an independent contractor, then again you already know that

 

Yeap yeap!!

 

Why anyone would consider working on a 1099 as a company employee, is beyond me, ether stupid or lack of research on what a 1099 is