This is a serious reply to a serious situation. A justifiable lawsuit is a good thing. In this manner, we can help keep companies honest, and also deter them from taking advantage of we drivers, and further causing us to go bankrupt at their profit.
There's another issue that SHOULD be taken up by an attorney, and that is the issue of not getting adequate and proper layover and detention pay.
I invite everyone to look up on-line, the federal labor laws pertaining to layover and detention pay. Federal law states that we are to get paid minimum wage for every and all layover and detention.
Not after 48 or 24 hours wait, either. This is no joke.
This is an area where almost ALL trucking companies break the law.
I invite an attorney to initiate a class action lawsuit regarding these two matters.
Knight Transportation Class Action Suit
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Oops! I meant to say that we are to get paid minimum wage for every HOUR of layover and detention.
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Was chatting the other day with an O/O at our company. He told me there's a class action case in the works right now in 17 states, the angle being that it's illegal to charge company drivers any money to drive company trucks. It's the 2.5 cpm the company takes out of our base mileage pay for hazy, Enron/Madoff-sounding reasons.
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Crazy theory I've heard: that 2 cents goes right to the temple in SLC.
More real theory: that 2 cents goes right into someone's pocket.trucker43 Thanks this. -
Good luck with the lawsuit!trucker43 Thanks this. -
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As they do not apply to OTR truck drivers.
Hate to be the one to tell ya ...
Not sayin it's right, but that's just the way it is.trucker43 Thanks this. -
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