Tag: port hauling

Channel 19

Owner-operator George Berry’s new intermodal group pushing for $60/hour detention at Va. port

Owner-operator George Berry and the relatively newly formed Virginia Port Truckers Association is extending what he calls an “open invitation to company drivers and owner-operators” for this Saturday, March 9, and a meeting at which the association will begin to establish governance, amid detention-pay push at port.

March 4, 2019

Business

The California independent contractor crisis: Undermining the owner-operator

The next battle in what some view as a West Coast war on owner-operators has nothing to do with truck emissions. Instead, California’s labor law developments, predatory lease-purchase practices and aggressive union organizing are stirring a legal stew for the independent contractor model in trucking.

February 4, 2019

Overdrive Radio

‘Dynamex’ ABC test ‘an unfair hammer to legitimate contractors’ — view from a small fleet, and a contractor

The latest podcast is talk with the owner of, and a contractor with, Southern California-based Angus Transportation, the now three-truck business of Jimmy Nevarez, the source of the quotation in the headline, hitting on the problematic nature of the independent contractor classification test for truckers who value entrepreneurial leased relationships and much more.

January 11, 2019

Business

Regs’ cost burden, independent contractor misclassification at issue as L.A.-Long Beach port haulers prepare to strike

Los Angeles/Long Beach, Calif., drayage truckers will strike at three companies after both cities unveiled plans to transition to zero-emission trucks by 2035 and promote common environmental standards at ports nationwide.

June 16, 2017

Overdrive Extra

ATTN Charleston port haulers: boosted cash incentive

The folks at Cascade Sierra Solutions, a nonprofit dedicated to connecting operators with opportunities to boost environmental friendliness and operational profitability, sent a notice today any Charleston, S.C., port haulers will want to take notice of, particularly if you’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to get rid of that pre-1994 model truck you can’t […]

April 17, 2012