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Drivers citing coercion face an uphill battle
While coercion complaint filing might be straightforward, resolving a complaint is anything but. The process can drag for months, and protection for complainants is impossible if the coercive act is what’s investigated. Add the absence of monetary award and possible work disruption, and there’s no shortage of disincentives for blowing the whistle.
December 11, 2019
Business
Cracks in the system: Blowing the whistle on coercion
In the more than four years since FMCSA’s driver protection rule took effect, results have been indirect at best, minimal at worst, when drivers report they’ve been pressured to violate regs.
December 9, 2019
Business
Trucking Law: Can you refuse to drive in poor weather?
The Trucking Law segment is a new monthly feature on Overdrive, in which we pose commonly asked questions from truckers and owner-operators to legal experts. In this installment, attorney Paul Taylor addresses drivers’ right to refuse to drive in severe winter conditions.
January 21, 2019
Channel 19
RJ Taylor, trucker and founder of Ol’Blue, USA, has passed at age 75
RJ Taylor’s 1950s Ol’Blue KW was part of the bedrock under his Ol’Blue, USA nonprofit — the USA stood for United Safety Alliance, his own self-styled effort, working with a multiplicity of partners, to teach road safety to schoolchildren and the motoring public and bring together truckers and law enforcement.
December 11, 2017
Channel 19
Driver-facing cams an invasion of privacy? Answers at Real Women in Trucking’s GATS legal Q&A
In a word, if the driver agrees to work for the company providing the equipment, no. Attorney Paul Taylor: “Should drivers do something about it? Yeah, they should — to a certain extent, drivers have to quit working for bad companies.”
August 29, 2017
Channel 19
Why ‘automatic’ may or may not mean ‘automatic’ when it comes to ELDs
In OOIDA’s case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didn’t require devices that ‘automatically’ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?
April 15, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: STAA driver-whistleblower protections explained
With the proposed anti-driver-coercion rule from the FMCSA now in a public comment period, the added legal protections it would bring for those blowing the whistle on unscrupulous motor carriers brought to mind the sometimes overlooked protections that already exist in the STAA.
May 15, 2014
Channel 19
Awesome trucks and the fruits of debate: Two events upcoming
Round-up of two events upcoming: the big 2nd Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention meeting Oct. 27-28 and the ATHS Cookeville, Tenn., truck show Sept. 27-28.
July 25, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Truckers’ attorney Paul Taylor, FMCSA rep at social media meeting
The folks with the Truck Driver Social Media Convention are gearing up for their second annual meeting — and have been sharing highlights of the two-day program in process for Oct. 27-28 in Kansas City via the AsktheTrucker.com blog. Among the presenters this year will be Elaine Papp, Division Chief of the FMCSA’s Office of […]
May 29, 2012
Channel 19
Tools for trucking career, issues advocacy at social media meeting
Making the wider world work to your particular advantage, whatever you choose that to mean, has always been the goal of the more ambitious among us — in today’s world, the tools toward making that a reality are multiplicitous and downright confusing in the pace at which the written and unwritten rules for their use […]
March 28, 2011
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