Ford’s Illinois ‘Shuttle’ Drivers Denied Overtime Pay by Court

Illinois truckers can’t collect overtime pay for delivering automobile parts made in other states to a Chicago assembly plant after retrieving them from in-state storage lots where they’re left by interstate drivers, a federal appeals court said.

The “shuttle” drivers’ jobs—although entirely in state—are part of an interstate shipping route, and thus immune from federal and state rules requiring overtime pay for employees who work more than 40 hours a week, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said Thursday. Temporarily storing the goods at the lots didn’t interrupt the interstate nature of the route, given the assembly ...