ABC test legality has not yet been ruled on by the Ninth Circuit. Not holding my breath on them doing something right but they do surprise me every now and then.
Will the ABC test cause over capacity?
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The pipeline companies I have worked for always gave the mechanics and welders 2 checks. 1 for the employee and 1 for the truck. We had to supply our own rig and tools. The truck check wasn’t taxed. The payroll check was. No reason this same system would not work for leased on trucks. Lease purchase may be different
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Thats how it used to be. With reputable companies.Rideandrepair and Cattleman84 Thank this. -
It's a tax grab. You own a truck, should be able to put it to use how you see fit. There is enough over regulation to deal with already.
If you want to crunch capacity mandate hair testing. At least that wouldn't be a money grab.Rideandrepair and bzinger Thank this. -
I think this is being pushed by the big unions like the teamsters. It’s no secret the teamsters are in bed with the Democrats and it’s pay back to the unions to push out more independents , 1099 companies out of Chicago , lease purchase etc . This will help level the playing field for all the union carriers like YRC , New Penn , UPS etc. Eliminating the independents flying under the authority of other carriers , 1099, lease purchase etc . It forces companies to have a more orthodox employee structures and make them more ripe for union organizing by big unions to increase their membership and increase the freight to union carriers by making the playing field more fair to them economically.
This is what it looks like to me. I’m not anti union , I grew up in a union family , my fathers a retired teamster and I was a teamster many years ago . It has its good and bad like anything else , it just seems like this is a big part of what’s behind this.Rideandrepair, bzinger, jamespmack and 2 others Thank this. -
More control = more power = more taxes = more control.
Although, last I read, at the federal level it was decided not to use the ABC test. That was last year though, maybe something has changed?
AFAIK, only CA and NJ are pushing the ABC test, and CA is stuck in judicial limbo.Rideandrepair Thanks this. -
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This whole thing got started imo because a bunch of guys in CA went and bought trucks when they had no money, signed on to haul the cheapest freight there is, in one of the most expensive regions in the country to operate in. Then when they fell on their face, they cried to the labor board in CA about how they'd been mistreated. No way was it a series of stupid moves on their part, it had to be those evil trucking companies taking advantage.bzinger, jamespmack and wore out Thank this. -
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