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A proposed class and collective action claims long-haul truckload carrier Marten Transport, LTD has systematically failed to pay minimum wages and compensate truck drivers for every hour worked.
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The 25-page lawsuit alleges that Marten Transport pays drivers only for time spent driving and does not compensate them at all—not even minimum wage—during mandatory 10-hour layover periods, which are required daily by the Department of Transportation (DOT) for safety purposes. The suit argues that the drivers are still subject to Marten’s policies during these unpaid non-driving layovers because they are required by the company to remain in or around the immediate area of the truck and its “sleeper berth”—a cramped space with a bunk bed in the truck’s cab.
Under California law, drivers should be compensated for the “off-duty” hours that they spend “tethered” to a truck because they remain under Marten’s control during this time and are unable to use their time freely as they wish, the case contests.
According to the complaint, the drivers—who transport loads thousands of miles day and night, often spending weeks away from home—must log their time in their truck’s electronic system and designate every hour as either “driving,” “on-duty, not driving,” “off-duty” or “sleeper berth.” The company does not pay for any time logged as “off-duty” or “...
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