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Channel 19

Anybody here ‘forced’ to buy their truck?

How has President Trump's tax bill and per-diem change impact your position in the trucking industry? Overdrive wants to know. Read more on Overdrive Online.

February 7, 2019

Business

‘Employee’ owner-operators? Not many trucking today have experienced such an arrangement

Such a model may grow in prevalence if lawyers and litigants are successful in doing what attorney Greg Feary expects they will try to: expand a recent court ruling so as to define an independent contractor more narrowly.

February 6, 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

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

ASECTT group presses ahead on CSA, safety rating reform and other issues

In addition to its chief concern over reliance on CSA SMS scores in safety assessment, ASECTT now turns attention to reform of the safety-audit system and federal preemption of state wage/hour laws and independent contractor classification, among other issues.

June 23, 2017

Business

1,300 truckers could see payout in Central Refrigerated classification case

This summer, 1,300 Central Refrigerated Service truckers anticipate a damages determination by the arbitrator who concluded they had been misclassified as independent contractors by the carrier, who’s owned by Swift Transportation.

April 21, 2017

Business

New online driver-carrier matching service

The Hickory, N.C.-based Blue Bloodhound company has introduced a new online, mobile-optimized platform to help connect carriers and drivers. Blue Bloodhound has begun offering its service in areas around Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; and Louisville, Ky. Drivers and motor carriers throughout the U.S. also have access to and are encouraged to sign up with the service and […]

November 23, 2015

Channel 19

When the road leads nowhere

Hotshot hauler Jeff Ward crosses a road to nowhere; And mainstream media — helped along by the Uber ride-sharing service — works to turn “independent contractor” into a dirty word.

October 16, 2014

Business

Class of FedEx Ground independent contractors deemed employees in Kansas Supreme Court

FedEx response to the ruling expressed commitment to protect “the rights of thousands of independent business owners to continue owning and operating their own businesses.”

October 7, 2014

Business

Teamsters’ case against Green Fleet Systems goes to labor board

The National Labor Relations Board will hear arguments Aug. 25 from a California trucking company and the Teamsters union after vacating their informal agreement regarding union activity.

June 23, 2014

Channel 19

California domestic workers and truck drivers; $1,500 for a few words

Domestic workers making state-by-state inroads on their own FLSA exemption (similar to company drivers’) from the possibility of overtime pay — meanwhile, a friendly, familiar, potentially lucrative contest.

July 11, 2013

Channel 19

Some L.A. port truckers voting for union representation

Employee unions can be tools toward giving workers a stronger basis in decisions regarding their collective interests, just as small-business associations can help to give collective voice to small business interests. Where the line between the two is blurred, however, there may well be unintended consequences of legal moves in either or the other direction. […]

April 9, 2012