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A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban predatory lease-purchase programs between motor carriers and truck drivers, which a federal Truck Leasing Task Force called “irredeemable tools of fraud and driver oppression.”
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Owner-operators give trucking fleets flexibility, but could trigger lawsuits and penalties if you treat these independent contractors too much like employee drivers. Learn best practices and potential pitfalls.
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The New Jersey trucking industry is sounding the alarm on the state’s increasingly stringent policies on independent contractor status.
Read More →In a damning report, the Truck Leasing Task Force assembled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recommended that Congress ban motor carrier lease-purchase agreements with truck drivers, calling these programs “irredeemable tools of fraud and driver oppression.”
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Fleets can use digital tools to automate workflows and avoid overstepping control boundaries to protect truck drivers' independent contractor status. Find out how USA Truck used a custom driver app.
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Is that driver an employee or an owner-operator? Complex new rules from the U.S. Department of Labor set out a multi-factor approach to determining when a worker is an independent contractor.
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The Department of Labor's proposal to change the definition of independent contractor has a provision that will make it harder for trucking companies to demonstrate the independent contractor status of their drivers.
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A southern California drayage company will have to make all its independent contractor drivers into union employees under a settlement of a longstanding labor dispute.
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Motor carriers that use owner-operators in California are working to re-evaluate their operations in order to meet AB5's strict restrictions on the use of independent contractors.
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Close to 1,000 protesters slowed the operations at the Port of Oakland to a crawl on July 19 as they tried to draw attention to how the controversial AB5 law will affect truck owner-operators in the state.
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