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How Trucking Fleets Can Use Custom Apps to Preserve the Owner-Operator Model

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.

New Rules on Independent Contractors Could Affect Trucking's Owner-Operator Model

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.

Labor Department Proposes New Independent Contractor Definition

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.

Teamsters, Universal Settle Labor Dispute

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.

Trucking Looks for New Owner-Operator Strategies as Independent Contractor Model is Threatened

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.

AB5 Protests Hit Port of Oakland

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.

California Truck Owner-Operators Slow Traffic, Protest AB5

Truckers serving the California port gateways of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland on July 13 began port-wide protests against Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which is expected to virtually eliminate the use of owner-operators in trucking in the state.

California Trucking Braces for AB5: Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal

California’s AB5 law severely restricting the use of independent contractors will soon be enforced against the trucking industry after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the California Trucking Association’s appeal.

Will Supreme Court Rule on California's Controversial AB5 Law?

California’s AB5 law, which would largely eliminate the traditional owner-operator model for trucking in the state, could go into effect as soon as sometime in June — if the Supreme Court takes the advice of the U.S. solicitor general.

Court Reinstates Trump-Era Independent Contractor Definition

The debate over who is and who isn’t an independent contractor continues, as a federal judge in Texas negates an early Biden administration action to undo a new Department of Labor definition.

How Trucking Fleets Can Use Custom Apps to Preserve the Owner-Operator Model

New Rules on Independent Contractors Could Affect Trucking's Owner-Operator Model

Labor Department Proposes New Independent Contractor Definition

Teamsters, Universal Settle Labor Dispute

Trucking Looks for New Owner-Operator Strategies as Independent Contractor Model is Threatened

AB5 Protests Hit Port of Oakland

California Truck Owner-Operators Slow Traffic, Protest AB5

California Trucking Braces for AB5: Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal

Will Supreme Court Rule on California's Controversial AB5 Law?

Court Reinstates Trump-Era Independent Contractor Definition

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