If they don’t pay you?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by jaredlvaughn, May 24, 2021.

  1. Hazmat Cat

    Hazmat Cat Medium Load Member

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    I think it was Willy Wonka who said “You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!”
     
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  3. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Unless you got the money to pay em off, you better ride out that contract man.....bonuses are subjective anyway. Now the mileage pay, and them not paying you correct each week, that's the bigger gripe. You should converse with someone...CONVERSE, don't CONFRONT.
     
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  4. slow.rider

    slow.rider Road Train Member

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    There might also be a way he can buy his way out of the contract. Maybe even by paying over time. Yes it would suck to give them money after they shorted you, but it might still be less distasteful than making them even more money by staying.

    As far as OP's resume goes, it's best to get at least six months in if you can stomach it. Or at least a total of 12 months between your first 2 companies.
     
  5. jamespmack

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    Most states a verbal agreement supercedes witten contract. You wanna pay lawyer you might be able to. They count on poor broke people not to challenge "company policy". State law does.

    There are non legal ways. I witness a chrome .45 layed on a owners desk. Informed him his account was due, today. He paid, and we fired him as a customer. I was a simple bystander.
     
  6. slow.rider

    slow.rider Road Train Member

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    Ya but there needs to be evidence of the verbal. Video, audio, eyewitnesses, etc. The evidence on the piece of paper supercedes one person's sayso.
     
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  7. jamespmack

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    Yes, but they can't prove the recruiter didn't say it either. He no longer works for them. It would get dirty and long. But some people have won. Some have lost.
     
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  8. slow.rider

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    Few courts recognize a need to prove a negative, since it's impossible to do. And if it gets dirty and long, then it'd likely cost more than the $1500 in legal fees. Which might well still be worth it to some folks, of course.
     
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  9. wis bang

    wis bang Road Train Member

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    OP, become their safest,er. slowest driver...

    Smile, say yes and go do it...just slower.

    Don't argue wit a ripoff -or- an idiot; both will drag you down to their level where they can beat you with experience.
     
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  10. slow.rider

    slow.rider Road Train Member

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    Don't just try for the fuel bonus, be the fuel bonus....

    :cool:
     
  11. wis bang

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    Yeah, never on time but 9.5 MPG...nobody else comes close! LOL

    Little old ladies give the finger as they PASS you...
     
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