This article is about non-monetary wages. For the vehicles, see truck. For the form of transport, see trucking. For some forms of crop-growing, see truck farming.
Brass trade token from Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory, used in a truck system
Truck wages are wages paid not in conventional money but instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit with retailers; or a money substitute, such as scrip, chits, vouchers or tokens. Truck wages are a characteristic of a truck system.
"Truck", in this context, is a relatively archaic English word meaning "exchange" or "barter".
Truckwages are wages paid not in conventional money but instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit...
exhaustion. Upon his recovery, he heads home in the same truck. He collects double the wages following his friends' deaths and refuses the chauffeur offered...
small producers are paid in either: goods, a form of payment known as truckwages, or tokens, private currency ("scrip") or direct credit, to be used at...
modern successor of the Truck Acts is found in the Employment Rights Act 1996 sections 13–27. This replaced and updated the Wages Act 1986 which had itself...
(also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move...
The Minimum Wages Act 1948 is an Act of Parliament concerning Indian labour law that sets the minimum wages that must be paid to skilled and unskilled...
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truck, which is commonly defined as a large goods vehicle (LGV) or heavy goods vehicle (HGV) (usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck). Truck drivers...
Inman, Phillip (18 November 2015). "'National living wage' will push up wages at more than half of employers". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2015...
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"The Fear of Wages! Ohhh!". The plot is loosely based on the plot of the film, The Wages of Fear; transporting nitroglycerin by trucks. Burma, 6 March...
injured after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians seeking food from aid trucks on the coastal Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City. The incident was the deadliest...
as truckwages, or; tokens, private currency or direct credit, to be used at a company store, owned by their employers. A specific kind of truck system...
US exemption ended on January 22, 2022. Of the 120,000 Canadian licensed truck drivers who regularly serve cross-border routes, approximately 85 per cent...
to retail distribution centers. Trucks are also used in the construction industry, two of which require dump trucks and portable concrete mixers to move...
in truck 13. He narrowly avoids colliding head-on with two other Hawletts trucks speeding the other way. Cartley hires Tom, and he's assigned truck 13...
the employers. In the United Kingdom, such truck systems have long been formally outlawed under the Truck Acts. In the United States, payment in scrip...
set to expire, a strike was threatened over union demands of increases in wages, benefits, and air conditioning in delivery vans. A 10-day strike would...
interpreted the Truck Acts in a novel way. The whole Act was repealed by sections 11 and 32(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, Part III of Schedule 5 to, the Wages Act 1986...
the UAW's decision to strike. In particular, he has criticized stagnant wages that do not account for inflation and has called for the end of a tiered...
He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes...
government. In Malayalam, 'nokku kooli', translates into 'gawking wages' or 'wages for (just) looking on'. Nokku kooli often enjoys a quasi-legal status...
cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. The slang...
which designates both "crew wages" and "stevedore wages" as preferred maritime liens. The statute intended to give the wages of the seamen and dockworkers...
for only one day. As of January 2023 there is a pending lawsuit over lost wages from an ex-employee. In 2023, the restaurant had 11 locations in Georgia...
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