I need a lawyer

IDK why the FBI would ever even care about a trucker unless he or she was involved in a bank robbery, or maybe a serial killer, or something along those lines then they would be interested. Ridgeline I wish I could borrow you to win a couple of arguments

 

He's not quite as knowledgeable as he thinks he is. He is a very nice guy, though. He's well articulated. Basically, he SOUNDS real good. He doesn't give NEARLY as much bad advice as others on this forum though. Some are truly outrageous, even asinine. I've seen Ridge give really good advice, almost word for word what I would have said. But then sometimes......

But one member here has posted a lot of incorrect info so Ridge was very right about misinformation there. The FBI has nothing to do with any of this. Period.

I still ask the same question that I've asked many times before, real true raw experience, who in here has the most lawsuits under their belt? How many were won? How many were lost? How many lawsuits has each person prepared? How many times in a courtroom? How many settled out of court?

One doesn't have to be a lawyer to know the law and even to file lawsuits. They only must hold the appropriate credentials with the bar association in order to be compensated for practicing law. I certainly don't know everything, not even any lawyer does, but I've been involved in so many lawsuits and legal proceedings its ridiculous. I've prepared my own lawsuits numerous times, won every single one, as well. Just gotta know how to play the game.

 

OP = original poster =/= not me
It feels like sometimes people are too concerned with being right or winning arguments and not helping the person who starts the thread and asks for help. Or the person who starts a thread and attempts to share their experience in an effort to warn others or provide guidance. I don't know how to turn off notifications for a thread but I am no longer interested in taking part in this discussion. I only intended to help a fellow man who was experiencing mistreatment. It's been interesting guys. Good luck.

 

Giving out misinformation does not help anyone. I would hope you would be concerned about being right when giving out advice. If you're not right, what good are you?

I usually don't post at all if I know nothing about the situation (such as all of these flat bed threads, I know NOTHING about flatbedders) and if I'm not sure I will make that very clear. But if I know and I'm confident, I will post accordingly.

 

Well, it's been a month and no updates since. I assume by now the issue has been resolved. It probably could've been resolved MONTHS ago if he had just checked his pay stubs (like I always did..), but instead he decided to 'fly off the handle' and make wild accusations. Now he probably realizes his mistakes, and won't post on this thread again....

 

It's pretty common to see when a driver gets screwed out of money. They are justifiably out for blood at first. They come on here ranting and raving about going after the culprits for damages and monies owed. They want to mobilize Seals Team 6, break down doors and do a tactical raid on the offending party to teach them a lesson.
After awhile, they realize it's probably a lost cause, and they move on. Hopefully they are more careful with future ventures.

 

i have to warn atleast in california. all these agencies are underfunded and underpowered from what it seems. no one may answer, or person who does knows less about the laws than the people speaking to them. or maybe just a few employees handling the complaints instead of appropriately expanding the agency to handle more.

also, each agency only handles a very specific section of law, and some agencies overlap as more than 1 agency handles same or similar thing. all of these things make it very much harder to litigate because the problem is usually much bigger than 1 specific agency issue, it may involve 5 to 10 agencies.

for example the agency that handles discrimination is both CRD and the EEOC, and possibly the DFEH. but the discrimination law FEHA in california. if you request the "pay data report" in govt c 12999. this is the report that explains the ethnic demographics of an employer. the agency will consider the document private. even though other laws exist that make work conditions illegal to be private, and hiring practices of hiring only 1 ethnicity is a work conditions so there is LAWS that DIRECTLY contradict 1 another. this CRIPPLES you ABILITY to prosecute such cases. ALSO. none of these agencies are capable of handling BUSINESS ENTITY STRUCTURE SCHEMES. where a parent company is USING 3 TO 6 SUBSIDIARIES to do systemic discrimination. perhaps a big company SEIZED to total control of the market. but it's a parent company and subsidiaries. so 1 of these subsidiaries bypasses all hiring requirements and sends workers into 34 an hour job with overtime and good schedules. the other subsidiary denies workers benefits, health coverage, makes them sleep in the trucks, makes them wait egregiously long periods of time without pay. the first company that pays good also is promoting an affirmative action program to make sure specific ethnicities are hired, meanwhile the other company subsidiary of the parent company is not doing so is diverse ethnicity of the bad company.

IN THIS EXAMPLE of business entity schemes. it's OVER THE HEAD of the agencies, that cant' figure out how business structures work. OUT SIDE THEIR SCOPE. so the CRD EEOC AND DFEH can't even help. because they are sooo limited on what they do. then another agency good at business entity structures. may not know anything about enforcement of discrimination.

 

i seen some companies no pay agreement form a legal requirement lacking. the initiate ad of pay before hired is concealing more specifics, maybe very generallized missing info. then when hired the trainer will tell you that the boss may or may not use certain things on the pay structure system. so each boss has a different method of paying the workers. some offer payment of something another manager wouldn't do. etc. and that it is normal for errors to be on the pay checks, and the company does alot of short loads every day, so alot of loads to keep track of. then between the 2 paychecks alot of loads may be lost not paid on 1, then not paid on the next, and then maybe ask for it, then maybe this keeps happening then like accumulated is like 10 to 40 loads ur waiting payment on. and then it becomes untolerable to work there. you could essentially resign and it be considered constructive termination. even though you quit, you can still show over 51 percent they made the work conditions untolerable. the other egregious thing about the company maybe that the pay rate is below the cost of living, the only folks can work there is ones who already are rich like maybe they own and rent out houses and just doing trucking for fun. but then this company that does this also eliminated all competition in it's sector so workers are left without options. also the region is full of homeless people.

 

Drier, you are right, there ARE companies like that out there. But we're talking about JB Hunt here. If they were running a scam, not only would their Fortune 100 shipper want to distance themselves from them, but if a bunch of drivers with the same issue found each other here and hired a law firm for a class-action suit, they'd be raked over the coals.

No, most of the stuff you are alluding to are small "Chicago"-style 1099 companies and their ilk, where you have multiple entities owned by a single holding company. JB, Schneider, Swift, etc. aren't out to scam you. They may deny you raises and write you up for minor issues, but big companies like that don't act like gangsters.