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Last week the California Air Resource Board (“CARB”) adopted what it has heralded as a “first-in-the-world” rule requiring truck manufacturers to transition from diesel to electric zero-emission trucks starting in 2024. CARB anticipates that by 2030, nearly one in three new tractor-trailers in California will have zero emissions. This is likely the first of […]
Since the beginning of this year, the Tennessee legislature has been considering a bill that would bring law enforcement surveillance cameras, automated license plate readers (ALPRs), to the state’s interstate highways.[1] They would not, however, be used for traffic enforcement.[2] Instead, these cameras would be used to further big data policing strategies, which have […]
One of the biggest challenges to assessing AB 5’s impact on the owner-operator model has been ambiguity about how it will be enforced by California. Particularly at issue is Part B of the ABC test codified by AB 5. An employer who wishes to treat their workers as independent contracts must be able to […]
The Cullen Law Firm, PLLC filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (“OOIDA”) in support of the preliminary injunction currently preventing California from enforcing the state’s new worker classification law AB 5. The United States District Court for the Southern District of California imposed the injunction earlier this year […]
OOIDA and five of its members recently filed a brief in a federal appeals court challenging the October 2018 35% increase in heavy truck tolls on the Indiana Toll Road. The brief explains that the truck tolls violate the U.S. Constitution because they unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce. The full appeal brief […]
A lawsuit filed in late March by JUMP—Uber’s dockless shared electric scooter and bike service—against the City of Los Angeles serves as a timely reminder that just because you travel on public roadways does not mean the government can engage in unbridled surveillance. JUMP’s challenge to Los Angeles’s data collection policy […]
Last week, The Cullen Law Firm provided guidance on new loan and unemployment benefit programs implemented by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), the largest financial assistance package enacted in United States history. A principle component of the CARES Act was the creation of the Paycheck Protection Program and the […]
AMOUNTS OF LOANS USED TO COVER COSTS TO BE FORGIVEN On Saturday, March 28, 2020, President Trump signed into law the largest financial assistance package in United States history: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. One of the largest components of the CARES Act is the Paycheck Protection Program, a new […]
The Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act, a portion of the CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, provides two primary types of relief to American workers hurt by COVID-19: (1) expanded unemployment assistance and coverage; and (2) cash payments. 1. Expanded Unemployment Assistance – Even to Owner-Operators. The CARES Act […]
In early December 2019, Celadon, an Indianapolis-based truckload carrier that grossed $1 billion as recently as 2015, filed for bankruptcy, making it perhaps the largest trucking company bankruptcy in U.S. history. Celadon employed 2,500 truck drivers and worked with 380 owner-operators. Certain of those owner-operators may have had escrow accounts on trucking equipment which they […]