how to get payment from trucking company that does not want to pay?

If you are a 1099 holder for that job, you will be responsible for everything. Taxes withholding etc. If you don't know what you earned, you don't know what to pay and Uncle Sam will not like that at all.

I would take this to the state's labor board or at least the unemployment board. You probably will not get unemployment for quitting but people there will see how best to pursue against employers. Maryland awarded me and a dozen child age workers wages against a employer a long time ago and he probably has passed on by now based on age. Just as well. It was more dangerous for the child workers than it was for anything else really. I kept a pretty good eye on my wages but even so, there was about a little over 300 dollars embezzeled out of my pay (A word that best fits in reverse, usually it's the bad worker stealing from company)

 

Your first paragraph applies, your second one does not, he was 1099.
Might have to convince company to pay you or take them to small claims court.

 

Ok then it's small claims time. It's easier to get this going while everything is still fresh and his retained logs proved that he did work and so on along with loads delivered and so forth. If a company has not paid by now they arent going to. Im fairly sure there is something deeper into this story but at face value, Im pretty sure the employer found someone else and forgot about this one by now.

 

Chock it up as a bad decision on your part and move on.

 

....and from now on work for a reputable company. No company is perfect, but some are better than others.
Check with DHL; a huge worldwide company. Lots of various types of driving jobs. Terminals all over the nation and maybe 3 or 4 in Florida.
Here's one of many: $55,000-$70,000 Average Income (varies by route) > Click here > Apply On Company Site

 

There’s no such thing as a 1099 employee. You will either have to go to small claims court or chalk it up as a bad decision and move on with your life. You are offered no protections that a normal employee would have when you choose to work for company that breaks the law by paying you on a 1099.

 

Which is why it will be a great time to get together with the IRS via a tax preparer and make ready for the penalties and so on that might be possible against this employee. Uncle Sam wants his money. Either in full or withheld etc. If the IRS chooses they can lay waste to that employer's ability to do anything with money with liens on house, anything of value etc.

 

www.OOIDA.com can give you information on how to proceed. There's a membership fee of something like $45.00 a year; real cheap.

 

As a start, how about naming the company publicly then?