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Get a QuoteKefid · The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California recently ruled in an employment class action regarding misclassification of trucking industry owner-operators as independent contractors.
Get a QuoteDrivers, including independent contractors, are now legislatively deemed "statutory employees" of motor carriers and, as such, motor carriers can no longer escape liability through the use of linguistic gymnastics. The carrier's fate is now inextricably intertwined with …
Get a QuoteLiming · If it is allowed to proceed amid court challenges, President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate will make America's supply chain issues worse, according to a major figure in the trucking industry. Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, outlined the damage the mandate could do during a Wednesday hearing of the House
Get a QuoteLiming · The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California recently ruled in an employment class action regarding misclassification of trucking industry owner-operators as independent contractors.
Get a QuoteLiming · Sep 4, 2018. Updated Sep 5, 2018. A federal judge recently ended two class-action lawsuits brought against TransAm Trucking, siding with the fleet. The rulings are not expected to be appealed. One
Get a QuoteKefid · Updated Sep 5, 2018. A federal judge recently ended two class action lawsuits against TransAm Trucking, siding with the fleet. One case alleged misclassification of drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The court also denied the drivers' claims regarding minimum wage. Judge Eric F. Melgren in the United States District
Get a QuoteKefid · On January 15, 2019, in the case of New Prime Inc., v.Dominic Oliveira., Slip Opinion No. 17-340, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that trucking companies are not able to rely on arbitration clauses in agreements with independent contractors to avoid lawsuits from drivers.Under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), courts are required to enforce private …
Get a QuoteKefid · The issue: Since 2011, California's labor office has received more than 1,000 port trucking wage claims and issued 448 decisions in favor of truck drivers. It found that more than $50 mil-lion
Get a QuoteLiming · California Trucking Association v. Su, No. 17-55133 (9th Cir. 2018) The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 does not preempt the California Labor Commissioner's use of a common law test, the Borello standard, to determine whether a motor carrier has properly classified its drivers as independent contractors. The Ninth
Get a QuoteKefid · A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that holds independent contractor truck drivers are exempt from having to go through arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act could lead to increased defense and
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Get a QuoteKefid · New Prime, Inc. is an interstate trucking company that hired Oliveira and other drivers as independent contractors. Oliveira and a class of …
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Get a QuoteLiming · The court found that Dynamex misclassified delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees and that all California-based companies that use independent contractors must use the "ABC test," a three …
Get a QuoteLiming · At stake is the ability of California truck drivers to decide their own future. A CTA study released in 2015 found owner-operators earned about 40% …
Get a QuoteKefid · Six of the nine cases reported below from July 2020 involve drivers' class action lawsuits alleging independent contractor misclassification against transportation and logistics companies. They include three settlements, the largest of which could cost the defendant trucking company as much as $28 million. The fourth and fifth cases involve conflicting decisions by key …
Get a QuoteKefid · The court found that Dynamex misclassified delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees and that all California-based companies that use independent contractors must use the "ABC test," a three …
Get a QuoteLiming · New Prime, Inc. is an interstate trucking company that hired Oliveira and other drivers as independent contractors. Oliveira and a class of …
Get a QuoteKefid · The transportation industry is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy. If freight is trending up, so too is the U.S. economy. But capacity constraints for trucking - including a shortage of qualified drivers, low truck supply and the rising costs of doing business - are squeezing trucking firms.
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