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Overdrive Radio
What can owner-operators expect from a Biden administration?
This week's edition of Overdrive Radio features OOIDA's president helping forecast what a Biden administration may mean for independent truckers. Listen here.
November 20, 2020
Business
Pivotal decision looms in case to preserve leased owner-operatorsâ ability to work in California
During a high-level federal appellate court hearing, trucking groups argued that motor carriers should remain exempt from California's restrictive A.B. 5 law.
September 2, 2020
Channel 19
1099 company drivers? Donât need an âABC testâ for that
Want to cut the skirting of self-employment tax, enhance employee protections offered by workers comp and unemployment insurance required of most bona fide employers? Enforcing previous, more nuanced independent contractor tests on the books should do that job just as well as any so-called âABC test.â
January 29, 2020
Business
News roundup, Jan. 28: Supreme Court wonât hear OOIDAâs challenge to increasing PA Turnpike tolls; little reader support for ABC tests; longtime Talladega trucker passes away
The U.S. Supreme Court denied OOIDAâs request to hear its case against the increasing Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls. A sizable majority of Overdrive readers against the ABC test for the independent contractor classification as too simplistic//broad for trucking.
January 28, 2020
Business
News roundup, Jan. 22: Diesel prices not impacted by rising tension with Iran; N.J. punts on ABC test, for now; Averitt donates $1M to St. Jude
Fuel pricing experts with EIA and ProMiles noted no significant changes in diesel prices as a result of the recent rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. New Jerseyâs legislature passes new contractor laws but punts on âABCâ test â for now. Averitt Express employees donated over $1 million to St. Jude Childrenâs Research Hospital.
January 22, 2020
Overdrive Extra
Death throes for the leased owner-operator model?
Clifford Petersen on the hope for successful pushback against California A.B. 5 and similar laws: âI choose to be self-employed because I like being in control of my own destination âŚ, knowing that my success is based upon my faith, my effort, my ability to learn, and my ability to adapt.â
December 4, 2019
Voices
POLL: Will Californiaâs A.B. 5 contractor law directly affect your business?
California-based leased owner-operators, or those who haul into California, do you know at this point how the stateâs A.B. 5 independent contractor law is going to affect your operation? Too early to say? Still mulling options? Weigh in here.
November 13, 2019
Channel 19
Rumblings of protest out West in wake of California contractor law
A look at one of several flyers going around the Oakland port calling for protest November 4. One watcher believes theyâre coming from owner-ops there and elsewhere in the state frustrated with what theyâre being told in consultation with companies they contract with for freight about changes in the wake of Californiaâs independent contractor classification law.
October 25, 2019
Channel 19
A third way to deal with new California independent contractor law will ring a bell to many owner-ops
Two paths for small fleets looking to preserve their relationship with owner-ops leased on if theyâre based in California: 1. Owner-ops get authority. 2. The opposite: Employee owner-ops. Thereâs potentially a third way, says Jimmy Nevarez, doing what many independents did in the wake of emissions rules several years back âŚ
September 27, 2019
Channel 19
California court battles over independent contractor âABC testâ: One case stayed while another proceeds
The California Trucking Associationâs case against use of the problematic âABC testâ in determining appropriate independent contractor classification, has been stayed as of last week, pending the outcome of a similar case already at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
August 12, 2019
Business
Swift reportedly part of flight from owner-operator leasing in California
Trends for trucking fleets with Calif. operations to shy away from leasing owner-operators in Calif. could be in the works at one of the largest truck carriers.
February 22, 2019
Business
A small fleet v. the Teamsters
AB Trucking owner Bill Aboudiâs more than decade-long battle with union-inspired litigation and other efforts targeting his small fleet at the Port of Oakland: âI told the union, âI disagree with your assessment that all these guys actually want to be employees.'â
February 8, 2019
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