The role of independent contractor owner-operators (“ICOOs”) in the trucking industry has a long history as a business model and also as a lightning rod for scrutiny. At the start of 2025, the popular ...

Spot rates up, capacity and utilization tightening, loads flat overall but freight strengthening by summer year-over-year: ...

Success as an owner-operator in trucking, particularly in the down market that the industry has experienced in the last two years, requires a certain level of stick-to-itiveness that not every trucker ...

Employee or independent contractor? For many heavy-duty trucking companies that use leased owner-operator truck drivers, the final answer might require a coin toss. On Jan. 10, the Labor Department ...

The trucking industry and supply chains could face chaos if the Biden administration’s Department of Labor changes how independent workers, such as owner-operator truck drivers, are classified by the ...

The latest brief by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in its last-ditch battle against California’s AB5 independent contractor law is a mix of apocalyptic projections about the fate ...

Owner-operators are a huge part of the heavy truck market, and they’ve been among the most hesitant groups to transition from diesel to electric semi trucks. That may be changing, however, as Saldivar ...

In the agricultural industry, independently owned and operated farms are disappearing as corporate and cooperative farming operations become the dominant forces. In the trucking industry, something ...

Professional truck drivers, small fleet owners, and owner operators travel across all the 48 states of U.S. to deliver goods and services on time. Every industry and organization, be it a construction ...