Attempts to classify Leased Operators as Employees continues

feverishly chipping away at any ability for anyone to be anything on their own. what is the name of your enemy

 

I am not for any regulation to dictate anyone as to what form of employment they can choose. For instance, if someone wants to be paid on 1099, so be it - I see nothing wrong with that.

At the same time, and it may seem incoherent to what I said earlier, I don't see the methods exercised by mega carriers e.g. Schneider to escape from the traditional form of employment (W-2, worker's comp) via their lease-purchase programs as something to be applauded for as their clearly want to escape from all kinds of liabilities that traditional employment involves and create a model in which they would not owe anything to anyone, while the anyone on their lease would be enslaved to their program and financially raped.

Independent owner operators are the same entities as mega carriers - the count of power unites and trailers is irrelevant. I don't worry there. Also, leased on owner operators are substantially different from so called lease operators who don't own any equipment.

But the freedom of choice should prevail above all that. So I would sign the petition to stop the legislation. Maybe I will...

 

Do you really think this administration cares what anyone thinks?

 

Thus is not intentended to hurt true O/O... It is intended to stop the predatory nature of these carriers who prey on drivers by pushing them into Lease Purchases and then calling them contractors... Even though the driver has zero ability to take the truck and do work for anyone else.

You kniw all yhe crappy lease purchase companies that continuously screw over thier L/P operators??? Yeah this legislation is meant to stop that...

True O/O are not the target... That is why many are fighting against California's AB5 law... Because it would hurt ALL O/Os.

 

You kniw thise stupid guys that will run bottom of the barrel dirt cheap frieght just to keep the wheels turning??? The ones that just drive frieght rates down??? Yeah many (not all) of those are guys that got into a bad L/P deal, and just HAVE to keep moving to make money... This legislation (not AB5) would forse carriers to properly classify thier drivers as employees instead of contractors... And then there would be less guys deiving down the rates... Yeah I know it's nit going to really change the race to the bottom... But hey, worth a shot.

 

A true lease operator can choose where he takes his truck and what company he lease his truck onto... A Lease Purchase has zero control over where he can take his truck... He cant slap a differwnt companies numbers and plate on hus truck... He is stuck with XXX company, because that company owns his truck.

That is the difference. If you can take your truck to a different company when ever you want you are an true O/O.... If you are stuck with the company that you lease your truck from... That is a L/P, and that practice is highly abused by most companies that have that practice.

Yhus legislation is meant to stop predatory companies from profiting from the continued failure of thier L/P drivers, by forcing them to classify them as employees.