Labor/Employment
Jul. 27, 2013
Employment suits trouble trucking industry
Drivers who haul goods in California increasingly claim that drayage - or short-haul - companies unlawfully bring them on as independent contractors when in reality the companies function as employers.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Salvador Robles owned his own semitruck, but he didn't feel like his own man. While making short-haul deliveries from Stockton for a company called Comtrak Logistics Inc., he was required to install and pay for the company's radios, allow the company to monitor his whereabouts by GPS and accept the company's payment terms. No negotiation allowed.
But despite what seemed to Robles like an...
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