It's now a rule of the road, so to speak -- the Department of Labor's six-factor independent contractor test for contractor/employee determinations under the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect ...

The trucking industry has strong opinions about regulators’ independent contractor classification rules. But how important are these rules? The classification concerns a regulation that has little ...

The National Owner Operators Association's relatively new leasing program got off to a rocky start earlier this year when Thomas Russell Holland, a former police officer turned small trucking business ...

A freshly updated freight rate survey lends even more credence to the pain that small fleets and owner-operators have felt for the past year trying to do business by relying on the volatile spot ...

If you are a commercial truck driver who owns your own truck, you may need to maintain several types of business insurance, including commercial auto, workers’ compensation, general liability and ...

The latest brief by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in its last-ditch battle against California’s AB5 independent contractor law is a mix of apocalyptic projections about the fate ...

C: The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed. Most legal analysis of the ruling agrees the ABC test, in ...