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Master(chefs) of wage theft

NOT QUITE SURE how many MasterChefs there are in trucking at present but be aware that they have been ever present over the past 40 or so years.

Well so it would seem, but if it wasn’t for George Calombaris, we wouldn’t have a measure by which to rate each contender, from the worse, to the best.

So WTF is ole mate on about I hear you say. Well, if Calombaris was looking at being one of the worse wage theft employers going around, then perhaps he should have joined the trucking industry, because trucking wage theft makes his chosen profession look like complete and

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