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Overdrive Radio
What can owner-operators expect from a Biden administration?
This week's edition of Overdrive Radio features OOIDA's president helping forecast what a Biden administration may mean for independent truckers. Listen here.
November 20, 2020
Business
Pivotal decision looms in case to preserve leased owner-operatorsâ ability to work in California
During a high-level federal appellate court hearing, trucking groups argued that motor carriers should remain exempt from California's restrictive A.B. 5 law.
September 2, 2020
Channel 19
1099 company drivers? Donât need an âABC testâ for that
Want to cut the skirting of self-employment tax, enhance employee protections offered by workers comp and unemployment insurance required of most bona fide employers? Enforcing previous, more nuanced independent contractor tests on the books should do that job just as well as any so-called âABC test.â
January 29, 2020
Business
News roundup, Jan. 28: Supreme Court wonât hear OOIDAâs challenge to increasing PA Turnpike tolls; little reader support for ABC tests; longtime Talladega trucker passes away
The U.S. Supreme Court denied OOIDAâs request to hear its case against the increasing Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls. A sizable majority of Overdrive readers against the ABC test for the independent contractor classification as too simplistic//broad for trucking.
January 28, 2020
Business
News roundup, Jan. 22: Diesel prices not impacted by rising tension with Iran; N.J. punts on ABC test, for now; Averitt donates $1M to St. Jude
Fuel pricing experts with EIA and ProMiles noted no significant changes in diesel prices as a result of the recent rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. New Jerseyâs legislature passes new contractor laws but punts on âABCâ test â for now. Averitt Express employees donated over $1 million to St. Jude Childrenâs Research Hospital.
January 22, 2020
Channel 19
A third way to deal with new California independent contractor law will ring a bell to many owner-ops
Two paths for small fleets looking to preserve their relationship with owner-ops leased on if theyâre based in California: 1. Owner-ops get authority. 2. The opposite: Employee owner-ops. Thereâs potentially a third way, says Jimmy Nevarez, doing what many independents did in the wake of emissions rules several years back âŚ
September 27, 2019
Business
Swift reportedly part of flight from owner-operator leasing in California
Trends for trucking fleets with Calif. operations to shy away from leasing owner-operators in Calif. could be in the works at one of the largest truck carriers.
February 22, 2019
Business
NLRBâs updated guidance on independent contractor status focuses on driversâ operational freedoms
Transportation attorney Jack Finklea says the new guidance focuses on âthe freedom to accept or reject particular loads, the freedom to start operating when they want or stop operating when they want, or not work at all on a particular day, week or month,â and more.
January 29, 2019
Business
Port truckers land nearly $6M in classification claims
The California Labor Commissioner recently awarded nearly $6 million to 24 drivers who sued their carriers claiming they were misclassified as contractors. NFI did not own the two companies at the time the misclassification claims took place.
January 17, 2019
Voices
POLL: Ever been an employee owner-operator leased to a carrier?
As the independent contractor worker classification typically applied to leased owner-operators attracts scrutiny from a variety of quarters, one way for carriers to avoid allegations of misclassification is to designate O/Os as W-2 employees of the carrier and restructure contracts accordingly. Have you ever operated under such an arrangement?
January 7, 2019
Business
Owner-operator status in question in California, carriers try to find work-arounds
The fix? Have previously single-truck operators leased to carriers obtain their own authority and become independent owner-operators and have carriers separate their trucking arms and brokerage arms.
November 29, 2018
Overdrive Extra
ATA to form independent truckers program, seemingly centered on federal-state conflicts
Seemingly driving ATAâs move is an issue that has burgeoned for larger fleets in recent years, particularly those who employ owner-operators, especially on the West Coast and in the Northeast: Conflicts between state laws and federal laws governing trucking.
November 1, 2018
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