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Channel 19
Hours of service pop quiz: Can you haul 77 hours in 7 days?
Reaching for a low-hanging-fruit example to shock the conscience, HOS legal challengers, following FMCSA's denial of their petition, made this basic mistake.
September 24, 2020
Business
FTC files lawsuit against another small-business lender
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit notes the defendants have deceived small businesses and taken millions from their pockets. More on Overdrive.
August 3, 2020
Business
‘I will take your daughters’: Abusive business lenders under increasing scrutiny from FTC
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking restitution for customers for fraud and abusive practices by merchant cash advance providers. More on Overdrive.
June 25, 2020
Business
Fleet intends to appeal court’s decision to toss Navistar settlement order
Two years after a jury ruled that Navistar, maker of International Trucks, owed Tennessee-based Milan Express more than $30 million over alleged defects of the company’s MaxxForce engine line, an appellate court has tossed the decision.
August 20, 2019
Business
A small fleet v. the Teamsters
AB Trucking owner Bill Aboudi’s more than decade-long battle with union-inspired litigation and other efforts targeting his small fleet at the Port of Oakland: “I told the union, ‘I disagree with your assessment that all these guys actually want to be employees.'”
February 8, 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
Overdrive Radio
‘Dynamex’ ABC test ‘an unfair hammer to legitimate contractors’ — view from a small fleet, and a contractor
The latest podcast is talk with the owner of, and a contractor with, Southern California-based Angus Transportation, the now three-truck business of Jimmy Nevarez, the source of the quotation in the headline, hitting on the problematic nature of the independent contractor classification test for truckers who value entrepreneurial leased relationships and much more.
January 11, 2019
Business
Results of the Minnesota fatigue checklist blowback
Since Minnesota's fatigue checklist was deemed a violation of truckers' Fourth Amendment rights, enforcement of regulation 392.3 remains low compared to 2011.
November 12, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Embrace the contrary: More regulation, less parking, might be the answer
Take a peek at how the FMCSA's hours of service regulations and loss of parking are impacting one driver and where his future is headed in trucking.
September 19, 2018
Business
Owner-operator services firms to pay $900k to settle claims of scamming truckers
James P. Lamb, a former small-broker advocate and now head of the Small Business in Transportation Coalition, has agreed to settle a probe into his business dealings brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, who accused Lamb and several of his businesses of cheating owner-operators out of millions of dollars over the course of several years.
March 20, 2018
Business
FMCSA, DOT present oral arguments over sleep apnea guidelines, medical form changes
Attorneys for OOIDA argued last month in court that the U.S. DOT illegally altered sleep apnea screening guidelines for truck drivers by slipping an appendix into larger rule after the public comment period had ended. DOT refutes these claims.
December 14, 2017
Channel 19
Worship the robots: What a man at the center of Google’s self-driving tech lawsuit against Uber wants you to do
Self-driving truck startup Otto’s cofounder Anthony Levandowski has established a “Way of the Future” church to develop an AI Godhead. Before we jump to the pews in science-fiction-turned-reality joy, let’s keep the source in mind.
November 30, 2017
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