Owner-operators back in the news on EOBRs
The latest is following the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s formal removal of the remedial-directive rule, which would have required carriers with big hours compliance problems to install...
View ArticlePoll: What is the best venue for trying terrorism suspects?
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, where do you stand on whether to try the suspects, and others accused of terrorism, in U.S. courts or military commissions?
View ArticleTrials for terrorism
A majority of readers continue to favor military tribunals as the most appropriate venues for trying terrorism suspects.
View ArticleJeff Clark for FMCSA Administrator? And: Lookback Tony Justice podcast
Operator Jeff Clark fires up the campaign machine, and a lookback podcast performance from Tony Justice -- Dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road" and Justice's own "Who Needs Heaven."
View ArticleLives matter, regardless of who’s a fan
Wendy on Ontario court's speed limiter ruling: "If the people who bring you literally every single thing you eat, drink, wear, sit on, lay on and pee in don't represent a broad societal interest,' then...
View Article‘Obamacare, round three’ kicks off with open enrollment Nov. 1
As insurance exchanges start the third annual open enrollment period Nov. 1, owner-operators have one last chance to avoid fines that are getting stiffer in 2017 for not carrying health insurance.
View ArticleReader: Do I need to comply with California meal and rest break rules?
Short answer: California's meal and rest break provisions are seeing some litigation after court precedent. Some employers in a defensive posture are requiring the breaks of their drivers, adding...
View ArticleFighting tickets
There is more than one way to skin the cat when it comes to fighting tickets. While more than four in 10 Overdrive readers say they have seen success contesting a ticket without employing a lawyer to...
View ArticleFMCSA, DOT present oral arguments over sleep apnea guidelines, medical form...
Attorneys for OOIDA argued last month in court that the U.S. DOT illegally altered sleep apnea screening guidelines for truck drivers by slipping an appendix into larger rule after the public comment...
View ArticleFederal judge’s opinion presents a twist in California’s...
A new judgement in a federal district court interprets the strict ABC employee/contractor test as pre-empted by federal law when it comes to truck transportation, bucking an April ruling by the...
View ArticleThe California independent contractor crisis: Undermining the owner-operator
The next battle in what some view as a West Coast war on owner-operators has nothing to do with truck emissions. Instead, California’s labor law developments, predatory lease-purchase practices and...
View ArticlePOLL: As state legislatures take up various new abortion restrictions, what’s...
Several states where Republicans control legislative and executive branches of government have taken up new abortion restrictions in recent times, most notably Alabama with what amounts to an outright...
View ArticlePOLL: Should sleeper-berth time for company drivers be compensated directly?
While recent high-profile court rulings seemed to suggest that even off-duty sleeper time for employee drivers should be subject to minimum wage compensation rules, but a Department of Labor opinion...
View ArticleCalifornia court battles over independent contractor ‘ABC test’: One case...
The California Trucking Association's case against use of the problematic "ABC test" in determining appropriate independent contractor classification, has been stayed as of last week, pending the...
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