The judge overseeing a major trucking industry challenge against enforcement of California’s new AB5 independent contractor law has lifted an injunction in the case after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to take up the matter. Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California held an Aug. 20 hearing on
It should be the busiest time of year for truck drivers like Gerald Rogers at the Los Angeles docks. Instead they’re scrapping over leaner cargoes thanks to the trade war. Last year, the 35-year-old says, he was shuttling as many as four loads a day between the port and its storage facilities. Now it’s down