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The Cullen Law Firm PLLC has filed a brief on behalf of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (OOIDA) in support of FMCSA’s latest changes to the hours-of-service rules that gave drivers more flexibility to comply with the 30-minute rest break and that expanded the scope of the short-haul exemption. OOIDA intervened in the […]
In February, attorneys for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (OOIDA) and three of its operator members recently argued to a 5-justice panel of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, that ELDs violate operators’ privacy rights protected by the New York State Constitution. In OOIDA et al. v. NY State Dep’t of Transportation et […]
On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, blocked the Biden Administration’s vaccine and testing mandate aimed at large businesses with at least 100 employees. The mandate would have reached some 80 million individuals and would have required employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that their employees were fully vaccinated […]
On October 29, 2021, The Cullen Law Firm submitted objections (OOIDA’s comments) to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on behalf of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the nation’s largest trade association representing the interests of independent truckers, regarding CARB’s proposed Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Regulations which seek to require virtually every single […]
On September 10, 2021, the Cullen Law Firm filed on behalf of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association a brief as amicus curiae in support of truckers challenging California’s worker classification rule, AB 5. OOIDA stressed to the high court that the independent owner-operator model represents the lifeblood of the interstate trucking industry, providing small […]
Supreme Court asked to review decision narrowing Commerce Clause and expanding Market Participant exception. Lower court decision leaves no constitutional limit on the highway tolls a state could impose on vehicles moving in interstate commerce. Petition for certiorari can be found here, Seventh Circuit decision here. Amicus briefs in support of this petition are due by […]
On March 9, 2021, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that the Constitution does not limit the amount of highway tolls a state can impose on trucks operating in interstate commerce. The opinion in case no. 20-1445, authored by Circuit Judge […]
On March 10, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (OOIDA) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, outlining the damage caused to truckers by inaccurate and misleading reporting, emphasizing the importance of being able to hold consumer reporting agencies liable for inaccurate employment histories […]
From 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 28, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will host a public listening session concerning the pending broker transparency rulemaking petitions. These petitions propose to modify the federal regulations requiring brokers to disclose certain information to carriers, including the amount the shippers paid a broker to […]
The California Supreme Court recently issued two decisions that shed light on the question of whether AB 5 would be imposed on owner-operator truck drivers who spend a majority of their time outside of California.[1] These decisions may influence the pending legal challenge to the application of AB 5 to the trucking industry. The […]