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Updated Apr 30, 2021
Updated April 28, 2021, with poll results and more reporting ahead of the May 4-6 Roadcheck event.
Judge it against the last time we asked a similar question, during Roadcheck last year, and you might think a hugely greater number of owner-operators were planning to sit out next week s three-day inspection blitz this time around. That last poll question, after the event in September of 2020, showed barely 15% actually on vacation for the week, having planned it and took it in advance. Here s what we got over the last month or so since this question was asked in the original version of this Channel 19 post April 8.
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Apr 08, 2021
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Michigan State set out to answer the question in the title of this post. Generally, they found, the answer is yes, particularly with respect to improved equipment compliance, more durable than improvements in driver behavior, as it were. That is, owner-operator and fleet investment in equipment in anticipation of Roadcheck and other events proves longer-lasting in the numbers than any changes in driving behaviors that are measurable.
Old hand Mike Mustang Crawford and his independent business won t be on the road May 4-6 this year, which just so happens to coincide with the annual Roadcheck event of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. For years he s used the time in a manner that feels in sync with what an announced inspection spree intends to incentivize. I take my truck in and have the shop go over it, he said, including performing any needed maintenance on the 1994 Freightliner.
Calif. court opinion goes in favor of A.B. 5 applying to trucking
While a larger trucking case against California’s A.B. 5 law s application to motor carriers and owner-operators is still unfolding in a federal district court, a second state court in California has ruled that federal law does not preempt a law that would effectively outlaw the leased owner-operator model in the state.
Trucking has been operating under an exemption from A.B. 5 since the beginning of 2020, when the law went into effect. A lawsuit by the California Trucking Associations against A.B. 5 is still in progress, and an injunction is in place until that lawsuit plays out.