Landstar has officially gave notice to California owner operators…move out or lease termination

This has already been covered in this thread. AB5 makes you an employee if you lease to a company that does the same thing you do.

 

Not just lease purchase operators, all lease operators.

 

Well that clears the gray area. I thought that would exclude drivers that lease on to carriers, as opposed to lease purchase drivers. Huge difference there. Not quite sure why they are considered the same.

 

Funny how Amazon delivery, uber and other rideshares were exempted. LOL

 

Because you also can’t hire independent contractors that own their own truck on a 1099, meaning the truck owner can’t lease his truck to a carrier. If you’re leased to a carrier you are using their authority, not your own.

 

You can get around that easy. Do just like it was done years ago. Put the driver on the carrier payroll at a minimum amount and the truck is leased on.
That only works with a good O/O, not the ones that never have a penny for anything.
Do that with a few O/O's here so they can get medical at a decent price and 401K

 

Takes a good owner and good company that isn’t going to go by the book and treat you like any other employee in regards to time off and such. That would be my main concern of going that route.

 

Just like it was done a long time ago. The truck owner decides what it's going to do. No different than normal. The payroll is just to satisfy the employee/contract problem.