From the Labor Department file

What is on record for Bestway Transport, Inc.

Name on the record: Bestway Transport, Inc.
Location on the record: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Industry: General Freight Trucking, Local; General Freight Trucking
Cases: 3 closed, 3 with a violation found
Back wages agreed to pay: $720,762
Workers due back wages: 153
Civil money penalties assessed: $27,506
Violations recorded: 454
First and latest case: 2002 to 2014
Repeat or willful flags: 3 flagged repeat

Every investigation

Every case on the record, newest first

Investigation	Laws	Violations	Back wages	Workers	Penalties
February 2012 to February 2014	FLSA, FMLA, minimum wage, overtime repeat	116	$167,086	24	$4,488
March 2005 to February 2007	FLSA, FMLA, overtime repeat	226	$290,085	64	$11,968
December 2000 to December 2002	FLSA, minimum wage, overtime repeat	112	$263,590	65	$11,050

Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.

By law

Laws involved and what each case found

Fair Labor Standards Act: 3 cases, $720,762 in back wages, $27,506 in penalties
FLSA overtime: 3 cases, $708,812 in back wages
FLSA minimum wage: 2 cases, $11,950 in back wages
Family and Medical Leave Act: 2 cases, $0 in back wages

Plain words

What this record means and what it does not

The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 3 on this record, 3 ended with a violation found.

Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Puerto Rico has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.

Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.

The Department flagged 3 cases on this record as a repeat violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which raises the penalties it may assess.

This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.

If you are owed wages

Where to file a wage claim in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico a wage claim can go to the state: Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.

Around this employer

Nearby employers and related pages

Other employers on the record in San Juan, by back wages:

Employer	Cases	Back wages	Workers
Puerto Rico Department of Corrections	7	$52,463,874	9,382
Puerto Rico Police Department	4	$24,707,227	10,221
Municipio de San Juan	4	$5,644,058	2,400
Puerto Rico Police	6	$4,362,746	655
P.R. Police	1	$3,238,054	1,120
Alpha Telekom, LLC	1	$2,000,393	242
Negociado de la Policia de Puerto Rico	2	$1,469,955	453
PR Police	1	$1,448,160	163
Xperts, inc.	1	$1,341,830	1,853
Puerto Rico Department of Justice	5	$1,236,280	599

every Puerto Rico employer on the wage and hour record

Sources

Where this record comes from

The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.

Disclaimer. The wage and hour information here is for general information only. It comes from the Labor Department's closed case file as the Department publishes it, which can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and a case on this record is not a court judgment and not an admission by the employer. Check with the Wage and Hour Division before you rely on it. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.