A deaf trucker got his CDL, got a pass from FMCSA, had a job, but Werner said the law wouldn’t allow it to hire him. Now the case is in court.
The court’s opinion in Dynamex v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County has a lot of trucking companies in panic mode, scrambling to figure out how the ruling will affect their business operations. The ruling could also have a profound impact on many tech companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and others that provide on-demand services.
The Court declined to provide guidance on whether the ABC test as a means of determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors under some California wage and hour laws applies to pending cases or only those filed after the opinion was issued. What does it mean?
Two former Roadrunner Transportation Systems executives were charged with multiple crimes related to accounting and securities fraud in a federal indictment unsealed Friday.
Alleging that Prime Inc. put female truck drivers in harm’s way, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit this week against the carrier, alleging Prime did not take adequate steps to prevent sexual harassment of a female truck driver.
According to Bo Mitchell, there are more than 1,300 deaths per year as a result of “intimate partner violence” and many of them occur in a workplace environment. Two people are killed each day in America in the workplace as a result of a firearm or knife attack.
Delivery vehicles are one thing, but how will the high court’s ruling impact logistics companies across the industry?
Commentary: California has turned its back on an industry that employs nearly 1 million people
The decision would seem to raise as many questions as it answers.
Nikola Motor has sued Tesla for patent infringement on its Nikola One, at left. The Tesla model is at right. Nikola claims Tesla violated patents on door placement, wraparound windshield and the fuselage.
A limitation on soliciting customers is upheld. Restricting the movement of employees is not.
“When there’s no sheriff in town, people get killed,” said Consumer Watchdog, John Simpson. But would the collision have happened even with a person behind the wheel?
Shippers are increasingly being held responsible for actions of carriers hauling their freight, says a leading transportation attorney.
The current exemption ends April 19.
Drivers say they’re employees, though their classification is as a contractor
