FIGHTING AB 5: MEDIA PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON CTA’S LAWSUIT

CTA has been fighting to protect the industry from the "ABC test" created by the Dynamex Supreme Court Decision even before AB 5 was introduced. In 2018, CTA and two California independent owner-operator truck drivers sued the State of California to prevent the application of the “ABC” test to the trucking industry. On November 12, CTA amended its lawsuit to add claims challenging AB 5. View CTA's press release

TV, radio and print media outlets are taking notice of our actions and sharing CTA’s fight for trucking in news coverage across the state.
Check it out, by media type, in the links below:
Lights, Camera, CTA TV Coverage...

KRON 4 San Francisco
CTA's Fight is Abuzz on Radio

KCRW (Radio) Los Angeles

"California Trucking Association says the new law violates federal law regarding interstate commerce and would cost 70,000 independent truckers their right to set their own schedules... truckers who spent thousands of dollars on upgrading to clean truck technology will lose their investments when the law takes effect in January 2020..."
WGMD (Radio) Salisbury, MD

"According to the Association many would have to abandon $150,000 investments in clean trucks and the right to set their own schedules in order for companies to comply with the law (which) illegally infringes on interstate commerce."
KQED (Radio) San Francisco

"California sweeping new labor law that aims to protect workers and the so-called gig economy is seeing what appears to be its first legal challenge. The California Trucking Association today filed a lawsuit alleging the measure violates federal law and would deprive more than 70.000 independent owner operators truckers of their ability to work for themselves"
Other Radio Coverage Highlights

WLS-AM (Radio) Chicago

KSL-AM (Radio) Salt Lake City

KQED Radio San Francisco

KCBS (Radio) San Francisco

WBBM (Radio) Chicago

WHKT 1650 (Radio) - Norfolk, VA

Headlines Highlight CTA's Fight

FreightWaves

“We’re really doing this because we believe the owner-operators have the right to continue their businesses and want to continue to be independent truckers. They don’t want to be forced to become company drivers,” (Chris) Shimoda told FreightWaves. “At the core of the trucking industry of this fight is that 80% of our drivers don’t have college educations, and so the pathway for them to become entrepreneurs and to become part of the middle and upper-middle class that has been an opportunity is to own multiple trucks and become part of the American dream.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“With more than 350,000 independent owner-operators registered in the United States, the new test imposes an impermissible burden on interstate commerce under the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause and infringes upon decades-old congressional intent to prevent states from regulating the rates, routes and services of the trucking industry,” Robert R. Roginson, an attorney for CTA, said in a statement.
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