* California - Court rulings, trucking mandates threaten stability in harbor drayage
-- With what seems like an economic hurricane blasting through the liner shipping industry, it may seem quixotic to be focusing on the land side of the equation as the biggest threat to stability in the international container trade. But the storm clouds on the horizon are evident. Port cartage is the weakest link in the international supply chain, and the final miles from port to customer may soon become the longest and hardest of them all... On March 16, Total Transportation Services Inc., one of the larger local truckers serving the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, declared bankruptcy. In its court filings, the company, which has 140 owner-operators, cited adverse legal decisions regarding driver misclassification as well as downward pricing pressure from some of its major clients as the major reasons for the decision to file... One month earlier, intermodal powerhouse Hub Group discarded its employee-driver port cartage division, closing it a year after converting it from the owner-operator model under pressure from driver classification court challenges... Unfortunately, those examples aren't the worst case. In fewer than 20 months, on Dec. 18, 2017, all trucks will have to be equipped with electronic logging devices, black boxes that will track driver hours and provide regulators with easy access to the true operating picture whenever they need it...
(Photo: Drayage trucks at New York Port) -- Los Angeles, CAL, USA - JOC, by Lawrence J. Gross - Apr 18, 2016Labels: trucking industry news USA
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