When Are Light-Duty Truck Drivers Overtime Exempt?

“You owe us overtime pay,” said Gary to Bart, the owner of the oil-field services company he’d worked for.
“The truck you operated when you worked for us makes you exempt from overtime, so we don’t owe you overtime,” Bart replied.
Gary was incredulous. “That pickup I drove exempted me from overtime? Are you kidding me?”

Fact: Two employees who had worked for an oil-field services company brought a lawsuit against their former employer for unpaid overtime wages.

In its defense, the employer asserted that federal minimum wage and overtime laws do not apply to heavy-duty truck drivers, but they ...