* New Jersey - A bill in the Senate to address unfair clauses in trucking contracts
-- The New Jersey Senate Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance a bill to do away with indemnification clauses in trucking contracts. The clauses are set up to protect shippers or hold them harmless from anything that happens with a shipment... The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports the legislative push... Mike Matousek, OOIDA’s director of state legislative affairs, has called the legislation a reasonable and fair solution to address existing rules that essentially provide shippers and receivers with immunity from any damage caused by their negligence while a trucker is on their property... States lawmakers across the country have been active the past few years changing rules on indemnity clauses. To date, 42 states have acted to forbid unfair provisions from contracts. Arkansas acted in the past few weeks to prohibit the protection for shippers... A full list of states, and the laws, where protections are in place is available. In addition to New Jersey, states that have yet to adopt protections are Delaware, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont...
(Photo) -- Trenton, NJ, USA - Land Line, by Keith Goble - 17 April 2015Labels: trucking bills USA
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