
“America’s truck drivers need and deserve fair leasing agreements, and this work will help ensure that leasing is above board," said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the new Truck Leasing Task Force.
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How would reclassification of owner-operators as company drivers impact drivers? Find out what drivers think in this ATRI study.
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Shell Rotella’s 39th Annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs "truck beauty contest" will be held July 29-31 at Love’s Truck Stop in Hampshire, Illinois.
Read More →Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge has a few things to say about the latest federal and state developments trying to force independent contractors to be employees.
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An appeals court panel has reversed a lower court’s preliminary injunction protecting California’s trucking industry from the state’s onerous AB5 law – a law that many believe virtually eliminates the traditional trucking owner-operator model in the state.
Read More →The ABC test raises its head on Capitol Hill: Sweeping federal labor legislation could threaten trucking's independent contractor model.
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One of the lawsuits challenging California’s controversial ABC test as it applies to the trucking industry, where it will widely disrupt the owner-operator model, suffered a setback in the California Court of Appeals.
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California voters approved Proposition 22, agreeing with the gig economy companies that the state’s strict ABC test set forth in last year’s controversial AB5 law should not apply to drivers such as those for Uber and Lyft. What does this mean for trucking?
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposed rule that aims to clarify who’s an employee and who’s an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which could be good news for some trucking companies using owner-operators.
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Oral arguments in front of an appeals court raise concerns that trucking’s challenge to California’s controversial AB5 independent contractor legislation could face an uphill battle.
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