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Biden-era independent contractor classification rule under DOL review

New DOL guidance informs investigators to not follow the 2024 contractor classification rule for FLSA disputes while the department reviews the rulemaking. Also: Bill looks to ease veterans' transition to trucking; Arizona adds rest area truck parking info online.

May 9, 2025

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House committee passes resolution to repeal Biden DOL contractor rule

A resolution to nullify the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule faces a long road to repealing the current rule of law, but cleared its first hurdle Thursday.

March 21, 2024

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'Truckers are tired' of regs' shifting sands: DOL rolls back contractor-classification rule

The new rule will take effect in 60 days, and returns to a “totality-of-the-circumstances analysis” that considers a worker’s “economic reality” through six factors. Some trucking groups took the opportunity to defend contractors' role in trucking.

January 9, 2024

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Trucking sounds off on DOL nominee over AB 5 role

As Secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Julie Su played a role in helping pass and implement the state's AB5 law.

March 15, 2023

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Company drivers value job stability, income, benefits over other factors, ATRI study finds

A recent survey into drivers' classification motivations from the American Transportation Research Institute found that boosting healthcare and retirement benefits could result in better recruiting and retention efforts for fleets.

December 1, 2021

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California Trucking Association's AB 5 lawsuit still pending with Supreme Court

Despite reports, the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet decided whether it will hear CTA's case to determine if the FAAAA preempts the California law. The State of California still has a week to file a petition in the case before SCOTUS considers hearing it.

October 5, 2021

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Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman David Rouzer (R-NC).

Committee advances Dalilah's Law: 'no English, no license'

More than 50 trucking stakeholder organizations support the passage of Dalilah’s Law.

Dalilah Coleman, who in June 2024 was involved in a violent wreck with a semi driven by an illegal alien from India named Partap Singh.

Amended Dalilah's Law targets English-only CDL, ban of foreign dispatch

Dan Umphress, Kroger's Manager of Fleet Services, is a recipient of FedEx's Five Star Award, the highest award presented by FedEx. He's also received the highest honor recognition possible from the Boy Scouts, TMC (Silver Spark Plug in 2014), and CCJ’s highest honor: the 2026 Career Leadership Award.

Scouts honor: Dan Umphress named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient

FMCSA advised carriers not to sell, purchase, or lease a USDOT Number or Operating Authority (MC Number) online or elsewhere from an unknown person or outside of a legitimate corporate transaction

FMCSA issues warning to fleets selling or leasing USDOT, MC numbers

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