$455 per week is the lowest amount that you can be paid.

Isn't there also the agriculture excemption?

I don't get overtime, and if my company were required to I have a feeling they would either:

A- Hire more people and cut our hours to 40.

B- Lower pay so with overtime we end up making the same.

C- Keep the same payscale but start cutting back on other things like equipment, benefits, facilities, etc.

I highly doubt they would say goodbye to a chunk of their profits just like that.

That's what you get when you live in a Right to Work state.

 

Right to work state

only means you don't HAVE to join the labor union.

 

Yeah, I know, but it goes deeper than that. Think about it.

 

That $30 check was your couple of thousand dollars. The lawyers bought some bottles of Kristal and had a party on your dime...

 

That would be the major problem. It's hard to get a room full of trucker's to agree what the weather is doing, let alone coming together to improve working conditions.

 

700 a week for being on the road all 7 days is a joke.

 

you sir are correct, in 2007 I had 2 truck drivers employed by myself , who I paid .60 a mile plus other line items , and I additionally had from12 to 14 other employees paid by the hour, I paid from the time we left the yard , even while traveling and paid also til we returned home in the evening, it was explained to them at hire we operated under my motor carrier authority and they were not subject to time and a half.

ine guys wife decided he was getting screwed and a friend of friend told them I was in violation. so they filed a grievance with wage and hour, went to district court in Swainsboro, ga.

turns out they were wrong, I won the case , I was not in violation, due to the fact that they performed functions that affected the safety of the vehicle, such as installing tires and axles and toungues and transport light on modular and mobile homes.

after the lawsuit was over and I won, I fired every #### one of em and went to strictly contract crews working on 1099. at Georgia is an at will employment state.

heres the funny thing about time and 1/2, if you figure a guys take home pay at 50 hours straight w/ deductions and 50 hours at time and 1/2 w deductions, the straight time will result in about the same take home pay, the 1/2 goes to taxes. and at end of year if the guy qualifies for earned income credit, he actually loses money over the course of the year.

guntoter, you need to research more. I know this one , it costs 30,000 in legal fees to prove it.

 

why u driving for 455 a week. macdonalds pays more than that. sheesh

 

Why would it go to district court? It's clearly the law and any DOL person that got the initial complaint would of told them so. So would their attorney if they had one. $30,000 in legal fees? That's roughly 1200 hours of work to defend a case that is not even a case to begin with. What's the case #? It will be on the internet. I want to read it!

 

condo, wage and hour goes thru federal court. I agree with what you state , it was cut and dried to me and my father -in-law. but then I can tell you have never dealt with a government agency in court, their contention was that the employees weren't subject to the motor carrier exception since they also performed other duties like the setup of mobile homes and modular houses. the govt position was they didn't perform safety sensitive functions all the time.

and the initial compalints failed to mention had dot numbers and the mc number on all the trucks , and after contacting us and getting a explanation of our operation, their position was it basically a scam to screw employees . when you deal with a federal employee what the law reads is usually of little consequence. the case went to court in 2007 but has been ongoing since 2005. it was a 2 year ordeal.

and 30,000 in legal fees doesn't take but a minute to rack up, you get lawyers packed up and ready for court and the other side gets a continuance 3 or 4 times when ya hit the courtroom it costs ya each time. and the innocent until proven guilty deal is basically nonsense, if someone decides you did it, there is no end to what they will do to make it so.

and about the case number , I have no idea at this point nearly 7 years later, its somewhere packed up the two workmans comp scam cases and the ordeal where the drunk man crashed into one of my trucks leaving the florida scales in the florida keys ( that one was a 3 year ordeal, thank god for progressive ins being on the hook for those lawyer fees.

and some wonder why I say being leased and having my authority in hiatus is a relief.

but I guess by your response you think I am making this up?? when you filed for disability it was a piece of cake and was instantly approved by a govt bureaucrat, yeah right. my wife went thru that ordeal, so I know the answer already.