Have Never Heard of this Action!

The Willow, AK highway job has been somewhat of a night mare sense it started.  Tony Green of AKA Plow, Anchorage, received the contract for trucking from QAP (Quality Asphalt Paving).  No one wanted to go the Willow to work, but the trucking community is always willing to toss the ROI book right out of the room. ROI is "Return on Investment."

Few truckers understand that subject.  In fact for every one that does there are 135 who have never heard of it. General contractors know what it is and live by it.  That is one of the biggest reasons the general contractors don't have their own trucks.

The Willow job has issued a huge blow to the ROI of the trucker.  It seems the Department of Labor for the State of Alaska has issued an order to stop all payments to truckers and or subcontractors for the job.  Wow, the DOL doing something other than sitting on their butts and watching the grass grow!  Truckers do not know why. QAP knows why and Tony Green knows why.  But the average trucker is just going to operate in normal mode and simply not get paid.

The DOL is acting off a complaint, I would guess.  Because the DOL operates under the cloak of secrecy, only QAP, Tony Green and the complainant knows what is going on.  It has been my experience the complainant may not know what is going on.  As blatantly unfair as the DOL is, the trucking community cannot expect any more from the educated group of "self job protecting" people in the Wage and Hour Division of the Alaska Department of Labor.


It would be my guess that whatever has closed this job down to the flow of funds, understand the work has not stopped, just the money, the reason could be applied to 99 per cent of all jobs in the State of Alaska where DOL W&H has any control!