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Overdrive Extra
Why do drivers leave? Pay has a lot to do with it, but …
Many are quick to say it is a driver-pay problem, but that’s not all. In trucking companies’ rush to grow, they devalue the freight market, notes owner-operator Clifford Petersen, and in doing so trade their pricing power in favor of a questionable status quo where driver time itself is devalued.
September 20, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Audio: Rich Wilson at MCSAC — ‘We need to hear more from drivers’
Though any FLSA reform wouldn’t apply directly to owner-operators, some have made the argument that improved pay conditions for company drivers and corresponding rate-dynamics changes would filter positively throughout the industry.
February 15, 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
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
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