The California Scene
I am glad that someone has finally the gumption to take on CARB. Now I’m waiting for some transportation company with the chutzpah to charge a California surge charge on freight.
As state and national regulatory changes continue to impact heavy-duty transportation, one local California rule that has not received as much attention requires warehouse operators in Southern California to track truck trips to their facility and prepare to pay hefty annual fees for total diesel truck visits to their docks.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, so don’t shoot the messenger but California rears its ugly head again but some refrigerated straight-truck fleets operating in California must convert at least 15% of their trucks to electric transport refrigeration units by the end of next year. Some may not be able to meet the deadline.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it’s going to try again to mandate speed limiters for heavy trucks and other commercial vehicles.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to consider the California Trucking Association’s challenge of California’s AB5 contractor law at the court’s conference scheduled for Thursday June 23.
The California Air Resources Board approved a regulation that would require some medium- and heavy-duty trucks and bus owners to inspect their vehicles’ emissions control systems twice a year.
A further disruption to the nation’s supply chain was averted on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court requested more information before making a decision on whether to hear the California Trucking Association’s lawsuit challenging Assembly Bill 5, California’s controversial worker-classification law.
The California Trucking Association on Aug. 9 filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a state independent contractor law — known as AB 5 — that it argued should be exempt from enforcement for motor carriers based on federal pre-emption.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the California Trucking Association’s (CTA) request for an en banc review of the Ninth Circuit’s April 28 decision that found the CTA was unlikely to succeed on its claim that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (F4A) preempts AB-5, the California legislature’s imposition of a restrictive ABC test.
By this time, you have to picked your service lane or area. For example, if you are based in Southern California. Decide if you’re going to run local or intrastate (within California) or regional interstate for example from California to Oregon or over to Texas. You have picked the type of commodity or freight you want to haul depending on your preference.
