In a decision regarding payments between an independent owner-operator and the trucking company that hired their services, the words of a federal appellate court judge may be sound advice for all drivers: “Trust, but verify.”
Judge Joel Flaum noted the phrase — which he said is of Russian origin but popularized by President Ronald Reagan, who put Flaum on the bench — in denying driver Michael Stampley’s lawsuit alleging Altom Transport underpaid him. Altom’s website describes it as a hauler of...