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Straight to hell with the FMCSA!!! These stupid ass rules is why we cant get drivers. Noone with any sense would take on a job that could land them in jail and fined out the ass for trying to make an honest living. Let us talk about the real problem with driver safety. 4 wheelers lacking knowledge of the operation of big trucks. This is the WHOLE problem. Pete Buttgizz,open your eyes to this!
If the delivery address change you need a updated Rate Con and reconfigure your Rate If not you haven't picked up the load have the broker remove you from the load
I appreciate your effort to educate us out here. Please post your opinion of compliance how to , requirements and suggestions for the next generation trucker. We have no voice and many established carriers just say don't do it.
It doesn't matter if you know your costs, if there aren't enough loads. Loads are way down I watched load boards for 6 mos. This said I have my own shippers to get out of my home base territory. And I would have probably made ok money moving loads out. But, if your out on the road, even if you drive a triangle or around and about it doesn't make any difference if you have sit for a day, 2 days, mabe even a week, inside a truck, because when you add up all the time you spend you could possibly be making minimum wage or worse loose money. So, please stop talking this "Know you costs" BS. Its run over & over way to much. And when you put this to gether with the constant violation of our Constitutional rights, by the this coroputed Communist form of Government by over using saftey as a reason, it makes the job even more miserable. I'm an OO with an old truck to save money & I pull may own maintenance. I know my truck. My truck is in good shape yet the where still harassing me in many ways inspection, pulled in to scales all the time.
Owner operators need to shut down the ports. Create a supply chain disaster that will cause every state in the US to put pressure on California to abolish AB5
A trucking company signing on an owner operator as an IC and the owner operator driving his truck for that company is said to be illegal. If that owner operator was a janitor signed on as an IC then that is said to be legal. OOIDA has no clue what they are talking about as usual. Just like the NRA, hush money paid to the government takes them a long ways😉
AB5 is a way for, the state government in this matter, to get rid of small business. We can thank Pelosi, Newsome and Kameltoe Harris for this bill. As we near a socialistic society, small business can not be a part of control by the federal, state or local government. Small business would have to be approved by all these government entities. In a nutshell, socialism is on its way. AB5 is now in the infrastructure bill of 2022, hr2510. Bidens admin has been trying so hard to get this passed but fell short at the senates door step. They can care less about the bill itself, its all about taking small business out. By the way, COMMIEFORNIA and OOIDA CAN KISS MY ASS!!!
Since AB5 became law, I was out of work for two years, denied unemployment and PUI, Forced onto social security years earlier at a big loss for life, and am now working through a broker at twice the rate I use to charge and can only get 16 hours a week! AB5 has been a ongoing disaster for hundreds of thousands, Not just Independent Truckers
AB5 stops the practice of BIG CARRIERS passing all of the expense of running their trucks on to LEASE OPERATORS who rarely, if ever, get to own their trucks anyways. Owner/Operator LEASE programs BANKRUPTED a good portion of the truckers who bought in, and as a result, the State of California lost BILLIONS in revenue. In the SHORT TERM a lot of lease operators will get screwed, and the BIG CARRIERS will lose a revenue stream. BUT, in the LONG run, it stops the unscrupulous actions of big carriers (i.e. misclassifying lease operators as true owner/operators) and PROTECTS truckers.
This is stupid. Th idiot has no idea what he is talking about.. California is dying. California is not cash strapped it has a spending problem and that means our politicians will always spend more than they havve.
Just about everything. The Owner Operator owns his own truck (or trucks) The pay their truck payment, fuel, repairs, tires, health insurance and their salary. They're independent. Some truck drivers are better off being an Independent Owner Operator and some truck drivers are better off being an employee. This should simply be an agreement between the Trucking Company and (The Owner Operator or Employee Driver)
It's about the money. It's always about the money. Americans are fools and allow this kind of stuff while their incomes and asset values are stolen by their respective governments (state & federal) all while they are told it's for their own good. 'Government doesn't solve the problem, government is the problem.' - (Ronald Reagan)
#1 RULE, DO NOT OPEN A TRUCKING COMPANY IF YOUR PLAN IS TO RUN OFF LOAD BOARDS ONLY. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BASE ACCOUNT(S). IT DOES TAKE TIME BUT BE SMART
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE ITS TO LATE !!!! PLEASE READ OR LISTEN TO THE FULL AUDIO BOOK BY MILTON WILLIAM COOPER. AKA BILL COOPER. HIS BOOK BEHOLD A PALE HORSE . IN IT HE EXPLAINS IT ALL AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON!
Question...If a carrier gets a broker authority will they be able to contract owner operators without authority being that a brokers main job would be brokering loads?
No surprise that the Unions support it. Just move out of CA. I live in Nevada. We don't even have state taxes here. How are drivers that are leased onto companies, under reporting their income? My company send me and the IRS my 1099 earnings report. All companies that use 1099 employees are required to do this. So if they are under reporting the money on their 1099's. Why aren't they getting caught because of the differences in what the companies send the IRS and what a driver would report on his tax papers. Drivers that live in states with income taxes. have the income reports sent to their states as well. Just a CA scam.
The collision repair industry in California subcontracts it's workers so they say. We as collision repair techs ar on commission only. They give us a crashed car, we repair it and get paid per hour at a labor rate. In California if we sit there in the shop all week long and not given any work to do we do not get any minimum wage we get Nothing. Corporatism has taken over all the ma and pa shops. As you know corporations have CEOs, those CEOs are on a salary and they scrape all the money off the top right away from the workers. In the early years we used to get paid 50% commission, now it's just barely 20 to 25%. And of course we pay all our taxes and social security you name it. Thank God I'm retired from the industry it totally sucks I would never advise anybody to get into the industry. Especially the cars now do not have skills as previous decades because they're all bolt together plastic, All by design of the manufacturers to make their money on parts. However you will see more cars being totaled by the insurance companies and sent to the junk yards because all the airbags blow off and it's too expensive to replace, and it was the insurance companies that wanted safer cars in the 2st place, a double edged sword for the owners of these cars at Great expense because you know the insurance companies will never pay off correctly because they're a big damn greedy corporation.
Good for you democrats. Way to kill the economy in California. No more truckers. As a carrier, I will no longer hire California residents to run my loads. All out of state guys now, and longer picking up or delivering to CA. How you like them apples?
