Not getting paid for breakdown time Dump Truck in NJ

If he wants to keep his job

 

Legally he could probably leave it. Especially if he felt it was in an unsafe position. Ie blocking a lane of traffic. Myself l would keep working there until you could get a better job where they respect your time enough to pay you or let you go do your thing until its repaired. Course his boss won't understand when he gives notice snd whine about ungrateful employees and how hard it is to get good help blah blah blah.

 

Nothing about your posts is legal. Nothing!
Why doesn't he leave them and find better?

 

Take pictures of how you left the equipment, even wash it, and leave. There are better options out there if your husband has a clean record and decent experience with a willingness to work

 

Tell the man to start looking for another company.

What did it for me was bandaids and not actual root cause fixing problems.

With our dump, if the bearings needed replacing, guess what? Myself and one other horsing duals with wheels off it physically in the heat to slap new bearings and grease on all 4 back there. We got paid... A true shade tree effort to have new bearings that day. Believe it or not, our boss actually cared.

Do not give your man a hard time about not having a job. Hang in there. There are like 9 grubby greedy outfits for everyone that is classy and fixes their stuff.

 

I wouldn't work for anyone that pays by the load. And logbooks?????? Does this company go more then 100 miles with their dirt or gravel loads or what are they hauling?

 

I don't think this is legal. While he is agreeing to be paid on a piece work basis--by the load--there is an expectation that the employer will actually provide a work environment, that actually lets the driver work in this manner.

The employer telling your husband to stay with the broken down truck, without pay, or suffer the consequences, does not seem to be legal, because they are not even offering the option of doing work for compensation at the piece work , or "by the load," rate. You see what I mean? This is wage theft basically, and he should be paid at least minimum wage to wait like this. And since he's not operating a Class A vehicle while waiting, he should be getting OT for all hours after 40 in a week or 8 in a day; the OT exemption only comes into play when one is *operating* the tractor-trailer for money. Know what I mean?

Get a lawyer if this keeps up.

 

Some tankers get paid by the load. In utah. I pull waste water. My brother in law hauls oil. I get paid $15 an hour for downtime. Don't know what brother gets. Otherwise, it's strictly load pay.