Posted on 09/12/2019 3:05:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
California’s governor is expected to sign into law a bill that critics say would make it difficult, if not impossible, for trucking companies in the state to use independent contractor owner-operator truck drivers.
If signed into law, Assembly Bill 5 “will put tens of thousands of owner-operator truckers, who service agriculture, retail and other industry sectors, out of business," said the California Trucking Association in a press release.
AB 5 originally passed the California State Assembly back in May, and was passed late in the evening Sept. 10 by the state Senate. It codifies last year’s Dynamex California Supreme Court decision into law, establishing an ABC test to determine status of an independent contractor that would all but eliminate the owner-operator model in the state.
According to published reports, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signaled support for the measure, which would take effect on Jan. 1.
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Off topic, how close is CA to self driving trucks and will they still require someone behind the wheel for more years after that?
I can’t speak for Uber and Lyft, but I’d say that any attempt to apply this law to the trucking industry is very likely to get tossed out in Federal court.
California is so anti-small business and anti-independent contractors. As a result, California has the highest per capita of homeless of any state in the US
If I was a trucking company CEO, I would completely stop doing business in CA.
Strangely, and incredibly to me, CA somehow says that it runs a budget surplus, even with its insane policies.
The lawyers guild is smacking their lips and rubbing their hands together waiting for self-driving automobiles and trucks.
I don’t think those two things are super tightly related. California also has a lot of homeless people because it has mild winters, super expensive housing and generous social programs. What California doesn’t have is a shortage of startup companies.
I won’t share the road with autonomous vehicles. The Party of the Clintons would be eager to use them.
Probably Chinese bribes to look the other way while they buy up all that real estate.
I do NOT believe for one minute CA. has a budget surplus, I live here and they are lying through their teeth!!!
The AI is still stupid, so the self-driving crushers of regular vehicles and pedestrians are a ways off yet.
If the article is accurate CA has finally found a way to complete gridlock of routine deliveries!
Few companies use only their own tucks, going to be a lot of hungry people and empty shelves by New Years day.
Actually I see this being one of those rare unicorns, legislation that is forced to be repealed even before it takes effect!
We are decades away from any widespread use of automated vehicles.
Their entire state government is the personal plaything of the Democrat Party, so I of course believe everything they say about it.
Communist have taken over more than one of the 50 states. They are enemy of our constitution and must be taken to task.
The cost of freight is going up and with it the cost of everything hauled by truck.
“Strangely, and incredibly to me, CA somehow says that it runs a budget surplus, even with its insane policies.”
Unless I am mistaken, this “budget surplus” Newsome talks about is misleading to outright dishonest, as he fails to include the $1 Trillion Public Service Pension liability in that “budget”. Either he is lying, or he has somehow figured out a way of stiffing tens of thousands of retired State Public Service retirees out of their pensions. My bet is on the former.
Illegal truck drivers?
I know!!
I never did read what the reason was for that self driving car hitting that person some months back.
The malfunction, I mean.
I think that’s right :)
Yes. Well, perhaps one to one-and-a-half decades, on the inside.
But I agree. I also agree that the attorney's bar is going to grow rich on that one, which is probably why California is leading the lemming's rush on the technology.
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