The role of independent contractor owner-operators (“ICOOs”) in the trucking industry has a long history as a business model and also as a lightning rod for scrutiny. At the start of 2025, the popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OOIDA has filed its latest brief in its fight against AB5. (Photo: Jim Allen\FreightWaves) The latest brief by the Owner-Operator ...

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 ...

Employee or independent contractor? For many heavy-duty trucking companies that use leased owner-operator truck drivers, the final answer might require a coin toss. On Jan. 10, the Labor Department ...

Southern California-based independent owner-operator Ken Brodeur has found his niche in trucking and is sticking to it. Headquartered in Escondido, California, just north of San Diego, Brodeur’s ...

Owner-operators are a huge part of the heavy truck market, and they’ve been among the most hesitant groups to transition from diesel to electric semi trucks. That may be changing, however, as Saldivar ...

Success as an owner-operator in trucking, particularly in the down market that the industry has experienced in the last two years, requires a certain level of stick-to-itiveness that not every trucker ...

Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — Hoping to reopen their suit against a California ...

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Milepost Insurance Agency LLC (Milepost), a Berkshire Hathaway company focused on simplifying the trucking insurance process for independent ...

Con-way Truckload is offering owner-operators leasing their trucks to the company the chance to purchase health care and other insurance benefits through a third party company Con-way Truckload is ...

Professional truck drivers, small fleet owners, and owner operators travel across all the 48 states of U.S. to deliver goods and services on time. Every industry and organization, be it a construction ...