Verbatim.

“People such as doctors, dentists, veterinarians, lawyers, accountants, contractors, subcontractors, public stenographers, or auctioneers who are in an independent trade, business, or profession in which they offer their services to the general public are generally independent contractors. However, whether these people are independent contractors or employees depends on the facts in each case. The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done. The earnings of a person who is working as an independent contractor are subject to Self-Employment Tax.

If you are an independent contractor, you are self-employed. To find out what your tax obligations are, visit the Self-Employed Tax Center.

You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done). This applies even if you are given freedom of action. What matters is that the employer has the legal right to control the details of how the services are performed.

If an employer-employee relationship exists (regardless of what the relationship is called), you are not an independent contractor and your earnings are generally not subject to Medicare and Social Security Taxes for Self-Employed.”

They are currently violating their own Delivery agreement and very possibly federal IRS regulations regarding Independent Contractor status of their delivery people.

They state in line 5 of their Delivery Agreement the below statement. Verbatim.

“All work is subject to accuracy checks. If the work is not completed to the reasonable satisfaction of DDA, payment will be withheld. DDA will not exercise control over the method or details of performance, and will look to results only.”

DDA and DDA’s delivery managers are currently demanding all independent contractors carry with them a GPS device as a monitoring agent which requires one to click it at every delivery stop. If one does not comply, they do not get any work and if the device fails or is not clicked correctly, further work is not allowed out the door with that carrier.

This is in violation of their own deliver agreement which clearly states, “DDA will not exercise control over the method or details of performance, and will look to results only.” In particular, details of performance.

They are clearly riding both sides of the fence here. They are hiring IC’s, allowing them to avoid employee tax expenses
and clearly implementing strict control over the same IC’s and violating their own agreement in the progress.

I am not an attorney but am forwarding a copy of this to an attorney friend for elaboration.

I’ve been delivering for over TEN years AND

If you cannot stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.

Some routes are not as profitable as others.

But heck me and Robert made over $465 in TWO six hour days!

And the next two days had way too many Businesses on the routes….had to get a good percentage of business cards
from them….some do not want to give you any info or sign even though they advertise and our contract requirements are to get signatures from advertisers. Just have to deal with the problems like SERVERS YES I was there too! In Ashburn, VA I delivered to Godaddy and Match.com and motley fools all in the same building and I had three of these maybe even four buildings that showed like needing three hundred books I was ABLE to carry BACK to the distribution warehouse and NOT get paid for deliverin. SO NEXT Year I KNOW not to even take this route on. WHAT PISSES me off is when Hassan<<>>>>> Anthony Johnson walks all over MY ROUTE and when I get to Businesses I have to get names and signatures from they already had it at their door in the early AM …..and if I walked on someone else’s route I would get DNR’d do not rehire SO Who are the best companies to work for the ones who do not screw the experienced person who does this to make a living BUT THEN AGAIN you have to watch out for the field manager too BUT STAY AWAY FROM ANYWHERE>>>>>DDA out of Duluth GA, and SDDS in Buford, GA

and APD in Florida

Las Vegas YellowBook jobs to NOT DO because STEVE with SDDS

field manager and they give you GPS Transponders to click and they do not work then they call your route and see you did it and fire you because THEIR GPS CLICKERS do not work Yellowbook stay away from Them in Memphis as PHATMAN Darren is rude and saddly won’t accept the truth about these kids that threw a marble and borke a windown of a house we delivered a book to. WHY would I break a window glass storm door for the sake of delivering a 22 cent phone book BTW I tried throwing books through another door and it would not break and we found the marble they threw in the glass pile because we were not guilty but we stayed at the scene until the owner came from US KNOCKING on the house BUT we got screwed by YELLOWBOOK! next time ii=f there is one I will leave my helper and chase the juveniles down and probably go to jail for that!! BUT SCREW YELLOWBOOK Deliveries! And WHITE PUBLISHING IN Tallahassee Florida also SUCKS! The ladies in the office said we THROW the books out our van wondow when actually we set them next to the mailboxes on rural deliveries!! I got SHOT at in Gainesville florida and some expletives I will never forget in Some City,OR who chased us down the highway and all over the backroads for fourteen miles at high speeds LOL ALL because we delivered a frikking phone book. So please whomever is is Belmont, MA I can feel for you about a few things and I disagree with a few others I made $1173 and change last week! Wanta Talk call me 315-745-9418 unless you are Clyde Clayton or John and Angela or anyone I will hang up on and you know who you are!

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Storrs