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Should owner-operators be employees or contractors?

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 1 a.m.

LLN (1/27/21) – California isn’t the only place where the status of owner-operators is being debated. Federal regulators are considering whether they think owner-operators should be employees or if they should be independent contractors. Also, Missouri is one of the states where efforts are underway to fix problems associated with police-dispatched towing after a crash or other emergency situation. We’ll have an update. And a major shift has taken place in the freight market between contract rates and spot rates.

0:00 – Newscast.

9:44 – Fixing police-dispatched towing.

24:37 – Shift in freight rates.

39:46 – Feds eye worker classification.