Truckers Support Senate Bills to Get Classified as Employees

A small group of truck drivers from the Port of Savannah drove to the state Capitol Wednesday to support passage of Senate Bill 401 and SB 402, which would make Georgia's laws on worker classification match federal provisions and impose stiff penalties for violations, Proquest has reported.Truckers say they're victims of companies classifying them as independent contractors paid by the job instead of as hourly paid employees with benefits.After they pay for the tractor-trailer trucks they lease, plus fuel and other expenses, they say they're earning next to noth...