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How is 1099 fraud if it's allowed by the IRS??? It's a LEGAL tax status that simply requires you to file your taxes in a particular way. You're assuming I don't pay my taxes because....????

You know what they say about ASSumptions and all that, right???

You must be one of these folks that knocks the president for using LEGAL tax loopholes that anyone else can use. I mean, I guess I'm sorry for using a tax status that allows me to use tax code to not give Master Daddy Government as much money as I can, like you do.

That's a good boy.

 

Yes, refuse to haul it and be fired and kicked off of the truck hundreds of miles away from home. It's absolutely that simple of a choice for the average working man with a family to feed. Then they'll come here and report it and guys will still find a way to pin it on the driver. "Well driver, you should've done this and whatever and yeah, it ain't the company's fault".

Hey, it's entertaining at least.

 

So I should discriminate against Eastern Europeans? Or just white owned companies in General? Let me know how this works. Because I wasn't aware that this forum WASN'T full of posts from drivers at W-2 megas complaining about the SAME sort of things. I sure see them often. In fact MOST of the posts in this forum section are pertaining to W-2 megas. Then you have the megas constantly being sued for millions for cheating drivers and OOs.

Then you've got W-2s that shut down overnight leaving dozens if not hundreds drivers stranded on the road with no fuel and no pay and no money for an attorney. Tell me that doesn't happen??

So yeah, no, the notion that simply avoiding 1099 chicago companies will stop any wage issues is quantifiably, unequivocally stupid.

 

Yes, they go after companies that ABUSE this tax status. But 1099 is bottom line a legally allowed tax status so long as the criteria for being considered so are being met, as you even later explained in your comment. So how then is a working man that works at one of these companies (and filled out a W-9 tax form with these companies btw. Also had direct deposit into a bank...) automatically accused of tax fraud? And since when don't W-2 folks commit tax fraud all the time by doing things like claiming other folks kids on their taxes?

Folks can get on the high horse and dump on me for a seatbelt ticket but outright calling drivers cheats for no reason isn't cool.

I didn't attack anyone, I just came to report my experience with a company. Some folks seem to have this need to go to every post and drill the driver while always giving the companies the benefit of a doubt. Bottom line is I got out here and did honest work and my pay wasn't received. Salute to all of the Super Truckers out there that remember to follow EVERY rule, but yeah I forgot to have paper logs on the truck and didnt put my seatbelt on after fueling at the Loves before hitting that scale. Unless previously agreed to, That is not a reason to steal a man's paycheck. Period.


And again W2 Megas based thousands of miles from Chicago run by American citizens are getting sued (and settling) for millions constantly for cheating drivers and Owner Ops out of money. The myth that simply avoiding 1099s will guarantee you don't deal with wage theft is again, quantifiably and unequivocally false.


Fun and somewhat informative convo though, thanks.

 

Not angry at all sir, it's just a forum. Thanks.