Knight Transportation Class Action Suit

This is a serious reply to a serious situation. A justifiable lawsuit is a good thing. In this manner, we can help keep companies honest, and also deter them from taking advantage of we drivers, and further causing us to go bankrupt at their profit.
There's another issue that SHOULD be taken up by an attorney, and that is the issue of not getting adequate and proper layover and detention pay.
I invite everyone to look up on-line, the federal labor laws pertaining to layover and detention pay. Federal law states that we are to get paid minimum wage for every and all layover and detention.
Not after 48 or 24 hours wait, either. This is no joke.
This is an area where almost ALL trucking companies break the law.
I invite an attorney to initiate a class action lawsuit regarding these two matters.

 

Oops! I meant to say that we are to get paid minimum wage for every HOUR of layover and detention.

 

Please provide a link for these claims.

 

The OT thing would fly for intrastate in cal, but unfortunately cal has a exemption for transportation in it's break rules. Coming originally from Transit busing in CA I'm pretty familiar with it.

 

Was chatting the other day with an O/O at our company. He told me there's a class action case in the works right now in 17 states, the angle being that it's illegal to charge company drivers any money to drive company trucks. It's the 2.5 cpm the company takes out of our base mileage pay for hazy, Enron/Madoff-sounding reasons.

 

But is that ONLY after you sign the paperwork?

You mean the company per diem plan? Yeah, that's some real BS right there. I mean, be on the company plan and lose even more money. And even how they tell you that they have to do that for the government, that's a flat out mistruth. I believe it's another reason they push the per diem so much.

Crazy theory I've heard: that 2 cents goes right to the temple in SLC.
More real theory: that 2 cents goes right into someone's pocket.

 

The per diem is the tax write off we get for being "truck drivers" at the end of the year. The goverment gives us a write off for each day we are on the road and having extra costs that normal non-traveling workers don't have. It's basically the same as claiming more exemption's on your taxes. It is a huge rip off and I think the recruiters/trainers get a bounus for signing us up for it. I said no to it at orientation, signed a paper saying no, and was still put on it and had to call H.R. to take me off of it.
Good luck with the lawsuit!

 

i guess that would be funny to you.the color PINK,. send some real information.

 

You need to read the FMCSR manual and Federal minimum wage laws ...

As they do not apply to OTR truck drivers.

Hate to be the one to tell ya ...

Not sayin it's right, but that's just the way it is.

 

Best post!