Merick Trucking, Inc. v. Missouri Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, Division of Employment Security

SMART, Judge.

This case involves an appeal from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“Commission”) affirming a ruling of the Appeals Tribunal holding that truck drivers *940working for Merick Trucking, Inc. (“Merick”) are employees and not independent contractors under the Missouri Employment Security Law. Merick contends that the drivers are independent contractors. Because there was competent and substantial evidence from which the Commission could determine that Merick had the right of control as to the truck drivers’ performance of their services, and because the evidence did not…