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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Truckers Lose Bid to Apply California Law in Wage-and-Hour Case - Bloomberg Law

Truckers who say Oklahoma-based D&M Carriers LLC underpaid their wages failed to convince a federal judge that California employment laws extend to their sporadic work in the state.

The truckers didn’t spend a majority of their time—or even of their final pay periods—working predominantly in California, and their only connection to the state was occasional work travel for hours at a time, so California wage laws don’t apply to their minimal work in the state, the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma said Thursday.

Matthew Bromlow and Johnny Walters lived in Oklahoma and Florida, respectively, while working ...

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