Port Truckers Ripped Off By Trucking Co Lease Agreements

USA TODAY NETWORK – Investigative Report

RIGGED

Forced into debt. Worked Past Exhaustion. Left With Nothing.

By Brett Murphy – Photos by Omar Ornelas

June 16, 2017

Los Angeles — Samuel Talavera Jr. did everything his bosses asked.

Most days, the trucker would drive more than 16 hours straight hauling LG dishwashers and Kumho tires to warehouses around Los Angeles, on their way to retail stores nationwide.

He rarely went home to his family. At night, he crawled into the back of his cab and slept in the company parking lot.

For all of that, he took home as little as 67 cents a week.