Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C.

Updates from Scopelits' International Transportation & Logistics Law Team including insights on shipping sanctions, ICAO increasing the liability limit, assessing the risk of anti-corruption violations, and a contract review tip.

The Scopelitis Labor & Employment team on making sure your company's fitness/agility tests are legal.

In this issue:
 • AB 5 – Practical Solutions to a Thorny Problem 
 • Bankruptcy Filings on the Rise
 • Dash Cam Video Retention Policy 
 • FMCSA Proposes Revisions to Hours of Service Rules
 • PHMSA Updating Rules on the Transportation of Lithium Batteries
 • Spotlight on Independent Contractor Legislative Counsel 
 • Scopelitis Attorneys on the Road 
 • Scopelitis For the Record
 • Dispatches

Scopelitis Partner Mike Langford has been elected ACTA's Chairperson. 

Scopelitis Partners Greg Feary, Shannon Cohen, and Chris McNatt quoted in Heavy Duty Trucking on California's AB 5 law.

Scopelitis' Labor & Employment practice on the growing marijuana trend increases employer uncertainty in drug testing and discipline.

Scopelitis President & Managing Partner Greg Feary in Law360 on California AB 5's impact on the transportation industry and beyond.

Scopelitis and STC on how motor carriers can prepare for the January 6, 2020 FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse compliance date.

Scopelitis on the U.S. DOL’s final regulation on workers’ overtime-exempt status.

Scopelitis President & Managing Partner Greg Feary in CCJ regarding potential strategies for trucking fleets to comply with California’s A.B. 5 law, particularly implications for contracted owner-operators hauling loads for fleets.

Scopelitis President & Managing Partner Greg Feary in Transport Topics regarding California lawmakers passing a bill that codifies into law a 2018 state Supreme Court decision that makes it easier for independent contractors to become reclassified as employees of motor carriers.

Scopelitis President & Managing Partner Greg Feary quoted in The Wall Street Journal's Logistics Report on California's AB 5 Legislation and it's potential to undercut trucking’s independent-contractor model.

Scopelitis on the California legislature passing AB 5, which will impact many small businesses in California and will alter business relationships with many companies that work with those small businesses.

Scopelitis Partner Jack Finklea on a decision by the NLRB in a dispute involving a passenger transport contractor and a local transit union could benefit major less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers in their bargaining with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Scopelitis President & Managing Partner Greg Feary in Journal of Commerce regarding California lawmakers being on track to pass a law that would fundamentally alter the relationship between trucking companies and draymen, potentially reshaping the market more toward a broker-carrier model used in the truckload industry.

Scopelitis Partner Jack Finklea in FreightWaves on an NLRB determination regarding trucking companies misclassifying drivers as independent contractors. 

Scopelitis President & CEO Greg Feary in FreightWaves regarding a new report that puts another spin on AB 5, a controversial bill under consideration by the California State Senate that would reclassify many independent contractors as employees.

Scopelitis Partner Nathaniel Saylor in Transport Topics on the Idaho Big Sky hemp case.

Scopelitis Partner Brandon Wiseman in FreightWaves on how technology such as dash cams, electronic logging devices (ELD), telematics and even diagnostics systems are helping fleets better manage their drivers and assets.

Scopelitis Partner Brandon Wiseman on FMCSA's highly anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking on hours of service, or HOS, for truck drivers.