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Voices

How would you fix the problem of excessive loading/unloading delays?

From changes in how drivers are paid to new government regulation of shippers and receivers, the choices are many — and none particularly easy to implement. Which do you think would do the job best?

August 20, 2013

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

Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 2

Counting down the memories — May-August 2012 on the Channel 19 blog, when things heated up in more ways than three.

December 29, 2012

Channel 19

Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption

The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries — […]

July 24, 2012