Comment period on ELD exemption request for small carriers ends Monday

Jul 11, 2018

Truckers have five more days to comment on an exemption request that would exempt carriers with fewer than 50 employees from the electronic logging device mandate.

The petition, filed in June by the Small Business in Transportation Coalition, can be found here.

Comments will be accepted here through Monday, July 16. The comment period was originally set to end on July 5, but “a technical difficulty” that didn’t allow comments for several days prompted the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to extend the deadline.

ELD makers report ongoing updates as drivers navigate new hours options

October 15, 2020

The so-called ABC test institutes a three-point criteria for determining whether a worker can be classified as an independent contractor. For trucking, that relates to loads that motor carriers can contract to independent contractor drivers, such as leased owner-operators. The B portion of the ABC test is widely interpreted as prohibiting motor carriers from contracting with such owner-operators. The PRO Act, introduced in Congress last month in both chambers of Congress, would institute a national ABC test criteria for determining worker classification.

Nationalized ABC test would ice trucking’s independent contractor model

A bill making its way through the U.S. House would follow in the footsteps of California’s A.B. 5 law passed in late 2019 by severely curtailing the ability of owner-operators to haul freight for larger motor carriers.

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Anthony Townley Jr. recalls his father (pictured) taking advantage of trucking’s travel opportunities and often saying, “This country’s so big and beautiful.”

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