Posted on 07/05/2022 3:25:14 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A Supreme Court decision may force over 70,000 truck owner-operators in California to stop driving, creating another choke point in the already stressed West Coast logistics networks.
The AB5 law restricts the use of independent contractors and will soon be enforced against the trucking industry after the court declined to hear their appeal.
The California Trucking Association said in a statement that gasoline has been poured on the fire that is the ongoing supply chain crisis, and the decision by the Supreme Court could deny a judicial review of a lower court ruling.
In an end-of-term orders list released in June, the Supreme Court denied the review of the 9th Circuit’s reversal of the injunction against enforcement of the AB5, which is against the state’s trucking industry. This injunction, which has been in place for over two years, will be lifted quickly.
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Things just keep getting worse.
(As intended... I wish we could blame this on mere stupidity and incompetence.)
However, if what happens, due to convenience, is that because a trucker has a certain type of truck that is optimized for certain loads, and because that trucker has established a relationship with a particular shipper, it is easier for him to just work jobs for that one shipper.
One potential workaround is for truckers who ship similar loads to create small cells of similar truckers. They can then rotate loads among a group of shippers. This way no one is tied to a particular shipper and they can remain independent and the shippers don't have to take them on as employees.
Is there any reason a self employed plumber can’t give up their job and work for Wal Mart?
Pretty much the same thing here.
“BTW I heard they fired the new black female gay press secretary”
Any source for this? Haven’t heard it anywhere else.
Isn't it the case that there are places at the border where smaller loads are combined to cross the state of Utah and then the smaller loads recreated to cross the country?
This impacts interstate commerce, but it is allowed.
There are plumbers who put up their own shingle, and there are others who work for larger plumbing outfits. I'm sure the independent plumbers make more gross income, but then they have a lot more expenses.
Also, as the baby boom generation goes into retirement, wages for all tradesmen would tend to go up whether they are independent or working for someone else.
But then if illegals are filling the trucking and plumbing ranks, then that's the real problem.
He can if he wants to, and the employer wants to, too, but neither should be forced to.
Is there a reason why many of these drivers can’t just go from being independent to salaried?
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Freedom of private business ownership and the associated tax benefits. Freedom of independence to own one’s time and effort along with the wages personally negotiated as an owner operator.
Or one can be legislated into a life of servitude trading one’s hours for dollars with no control over work schedule or hours of work as a slave of the state.
WWG1WGA!
There’s an ad for owner operators on a bill board here in my adopted home town (Texas panhandle).
Interesting definition of freedom.
An owner-operator is a self-employed free man. Why would the government force such a person into a job that traditionally abuses and overworks people?
Why do you not see the difference here, you’re a FReeper, right?
Why can't these fiercely independent and entrepreneurial truckers create small guilds of similar truckers and rotate jobs among several shippers?
Answer: They don't want to hassle the paperwork, and working with more than one shipper might mean a more complicated schedule. Oh noes!
I was hopefully looking that up too, but I didn’t see any such announcement so far. It’s obvious she’s in way over her uncombed head.
It’s amazing the status mindsets many have been conditioned into.
I shared this Samual Adam’s quote with a FReeper today.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Iconic quote from Adams and it applies today to the mindless folks who “trust” the gov’t with vaccines, or to those who truly believe the government has our best interests at heart when they make it next to impossible to live day-by-day with red tape and hypocritical requests that nobody could ever meet.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty"
Independent trucker: I can make more money doing jobs for one shipper
"the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom"
Independent trucker: Less paperwork and tax hassles if I do jobs for one shipper
It should be a flaming violation of the interstate commerce clause, much used and abused by liberals. But the SCOTUS didn’t even want to hear about it.
If they are creating the issue intentionally it is not a “problem” so much as it is a “program”.
They can go from independent to salary. But they didn’t want to.
There are some platforms for hiring independent contractors - like an uber for shippers type thing. But they are not as easy to use as uber/lyft etc and most shippers like to work with one or two carriers. The carriers are the ones who then sub-contract to independent drivers with their own rigs.
Now they can’t do that.
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