just a quick question about the ways of some companies

the only places that wont take out taxes on your paychecks are them fly by night small crooked ones.

If your going witht a big carrier (Crete, Schneider, etc) you will have taxes taken out of your paycheck.

 

I don't think the national companies do 1099s for company drivers. They'd take care of your tax deductions.

I've talked to a number of local companies, though - and about half of the ones I talked to are hiring you as a 'contracted driver'. 1099. I *really* dislike this idea.

 

Bingo. I'd say they're ok for fill-in-the-gaps-between-real-jobs work, but no place I'd want to spend any time

 

I'm not a tax attorney, nor an accountant, but as I understand things if the company provides the equipment, pays the expenses, and tells you where to go and when to be there, you are an employee -- NOT a private contractor.

 

Nah - it's perfectly legal to hire on a contract basis. In my past life, I used to do that about 2-3 times a year - hire somebody on a 1099 to do a specific job. He had to do it where and when I said, and the results had to meet my specifications. But he was NOT a company employee.

 

Actually, it is not. There are publications on the IRS website that define what is what.

Basically, if you control where they work, when they work, and what they make, they are an employee.

I can give you the publications if you want to read them.

 

RM - hrm...
Interesting. I wonder how our HR company worked it, then. (yeah, we outsourced - I have *no* clue about it. So I'm parroting what they told us...)

 

You can outsource to some of the Express personnel places and all.

But to actually hire someone to work and classify them as contract labor is wrong.