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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 […]
An already challenging economic environment for truckers may worsen with a proposal in Congress to increase minimum public liability insurance limits to $2 million. In mid-June, Representative Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL-04) introduced a proposal in Congress that require commercial motor vehicles to be insured against liability at a level of $2 million—266% higher than […]
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 […]
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 […]