A variety of issues that address concerns of California truck drivers are under consideration at the statehouse. The bills cover issues that include ports, CARB, photo enforcement.
Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, is the sponsor of a separate bill that would affect port truckers, including owner-operators. Perez is a cousin of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The bill would deem drayage truck operators to be employees of the companies that arrange for their services.
Perez wrote in the bill that classifying affected drivers as employees would ease concerns about retaliation for reporting safety concerns and help ensure that operators have workers’ compensation insurance.
Like many California truckers, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, has had enough of the state’s Air Resources Board. He has introduced a bill that would abolish the agency and “transfer its authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction to the California Environmental Protection Agency.”
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Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, is the sponsor of a separate bill that would affect port truckers, including owner-operators. Perez is a cousin of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The bill would deem drayage truck operators to be employees of the companies that arrange for their services.
Perez wrote in the bill that classifying affected drivers as employees would ease concerns about retaliation for reporting safety concerns and help ensure that operators have workers’ compensation insurance.
Like many California truckers, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, has had enough of the state’s Air Resources Board. He has introduced a bill that would abolish the agency and “transfer its authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction to the California Environmental Protection Agency.”
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