May 7, 2021 It’s not a good vibe right now, said Raman Dhillon, CEO of the California-headquartered North American Punjabi Trucking Association. He was talking about his group s membership s response to the news last week that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had struck down a lower court s injunction against application of California s A.B. 5 contractor law and its ABC test s application to trucking.
The original suit that was ruled on had been brought by the California Trucking Association, who told
Overdrive it is planning to request what s known as an en banc review, a reconsideration from the entire panel of judges in the Ninth Circuit. As previously reported, from the April 28 ruling on the injunction, CTA has 14 days to seek rehearing. If that request is denied or if the rehearing fails to change the view of the court, it will be a mere seven days from the denial or failure before the injunction lifts.
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Mar 16, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Truck drivers who work at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach filed a complaint with Cal/OSHA today alleging that one of the legion s largest short-haul trucking companies failed to protect drivers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Container Connection owns multiple trucking companies that operate in the Los Angeles region, and the complaint is the first of its kind addressing conditions during the pandemic that drivers transporting goods from ports to retailer warehouses have faced, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which is representing the drivers that filed the complaint.
Truck drivers who work at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach filed a complaint with Cal/OSHA Monday alleging that one of the region’s largest short-haul trucking companies failed to protect drivers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Container Connection owns multiple trucking companies that operate in the Los Angeles region, and the complaint is the first of its kind addressing conditions during the pandemic that drivers transporting goods from ports to retailer warehouses have faced, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which is representing the drivers that filed the complaint.
“Container Connection is in the sole position to identify and report hazards to customers to protect drivers’ safety and health,” the complaint said. “Container Connection drivers are hesitant to report COVID-19 hazards to customers’ warehouses because of the fear of reprisal having their load rejected or being banned from the site. This fear is b
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