Fair Labor Standards Act

In December, a federal appeals court ruled that company team drivers’ time spent in sleeper berths after eight hours can be compensated under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case involved a former CRST trainee who sued CRST in 2016 alleging that the team-based driver training program violated the FLSA based on the carrier’s compensation policy.

Federal investigators in California recently ordered two separate logistics operators to pay more than $1 million in back wages to Mexico-based warehouse workers.

Shot in the dark, but a $5,000 timeout for $230,000 in pay withheld from workers making as little as $3.38 an hour could prove a suboptimal deterrent.

Spear says the ATA is spending $2 million to litigate Rhode Island truck tolling.