JC
Richmond,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, March 22, 2010
If Celadon with-held your moneys from you last check for anything like cleaning fee, recovery fees to pickup the truck, tolls, out of route mileage. THEY CANNOT WITH-HOLD ANY MONEYS FROM YOUR CHECK. GOT THAT STRAIGTH FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, BUT MOST GUYS DON'T TAKE THE EXTRA STEP TO FINE OUT.
Celadon has to pay you the wages you are owed for the mileage your drove, and if they have any recovery fees they need to handle it thru small claims court.
When I quite I drove the truck to the nearest truck stop near my home, unpacked my belongings and called Celadon and told them to come get the truck.
When I got my last paystub, I was charged a recover fee, a cleaning fee, they charged me a fee for my passport which I still have not yet received, all sorts of misc fees. The tolls that I was never paid for all of a sudden appeared as paid on the last pay-stub.
I called the Indiania Department of Labor to see what I had to do to file a complaint against this company for unpaid toll reimbursements, shortage on mileage that I didn't get paid for. I had to borrow money from my family to stay afloat day to day. What a nightmare. I basically worked for free. I'm so d**n mad I could spit nails, and bunch someone in the face and do some serious damage.
I WAS TOLD BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, THAT THE COMPANY CANNOT WITH-HOLD ANY FEES FROM MY CHECK. THEY HAVE TO PAY ME WHAT I WAS TO HAVE BEEN PAID, AND IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER CHARGES THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT. SO PASS THE WORD TO ALL THE TRUCKERS SO THEY KNOW. TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS COMPANY. THEY NEED TO BE PUT ON LOCK DOWN, INSTEAD OF USING THE TRUCKERS JUST TO PAY OFF THE LEASE PAYMENTS DUE ON THE RIGS.
IF ANYONE WISHES TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME, JUST SEND A QUICK MESSAGE ASKING FOR INFO ON CWJ & PUT A NUMBER OR EMAILL ADDRESS & I WILL CALL YA.
THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS, THE MORE TRUCKERS WHO COME TOGETHER ON THIS CAUSE THE BETTER OFF WE ARE.