Koch v. Jerry W Bailey Trucking Inc

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION DANIEL KOCH, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Cause No. 1:14-CV-72-HAB ) JERRY W. BAILEY TRUCKING, INC., ) THE ESTATE OF JERRY W. BAILEY, ) and LINDA L. BAILEY, ) ) Defendants. ) OPINION AND ORDER “But everyone else is doing it!” This, effectively, is the excuse that Defendants advance for not paying their employee truck drivers to perform DOT inspections, among other tasks. This rationale has not worked on a mother in recorded history and, as it turns out, is no more effective when explaining away wage and hour…