Wyoming trucking company pays $124,000 to settle sexual harassment suit

A family-owned Wyoming trucking company has agreed to pay $124,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations that the company’s owner had sexually harassed two female truck drivers over several years.

As part of the agreement reached Wednesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Norman Waller, owner of Waller’s Trucking of Big Piney, Wyoming, must issue a letter of apology to his victims, revise the carrier’s anti-harassment and anti-retaliation policies, post a notice informing employees of the settlement, and provide specialized training to the carrier’s supervisors and employees.

“Owner harassment is a particularly harmful form of harassment because employees often feel they have no recourse or way to complain,” said Mary Jo O’Neill, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Phoenix District, in a statement.

FreightWaves has reached out to Waller’s Trucking’s attorneys Mandy M. Gundlach Good and Susan Stubson of Crowley Fleck PLLP for comment. 

According to the EEOC complaint, which was filed on Sept. 30, 2024, Waller’s Trucking hired Lizabeth Porter as a truck driver in February 2017, and she was directly supervised by Norman Waller. The company hauls oilfield equipment.

“[Norman] Waller began to sexually harass Porter soon after she started her employment,” the complaint states. “Waller subjected her to near-daily inappropriate, unwelcome and offensive sexual comments and …

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