In October 2020, Laura Zuniga got a call from a dispatcher at Eagle Trucklines. She would be picking up a load in Fresno, California, that morning and dropping it off in Florida that evening. She had never driven with the male colleague assigned to co-drive with her before, but said yes because she had recently graduated from training and needed the experience as well as the money.
Zuniga drove first so the other driver could rest in one of the two beds in the back of the cab. But once they were on the road he kept coming to the front in his underwear. He asked her if she liked sex. Then he told her he wanted to pay her for sex. When she told him she wasn’t a sex worker, he claimed he was joking and returned to the back.
