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3 states in recent months have strengthened regulations for tranporting oil via train. The states:
What do the new regulations do?
Nevada’s proposed rules for ride share regulations have now been published. The rules include:
Procedural hurdles for the rules:
Nevada Transportation Authorityproduced 15-pages of draft regulations for ride share. The lengthy regulations include:
This week ride share company Uber and the CIty of New York reached a deal prior to the mayor pushing a vote on capping ride share. How did it work?
To clear up the national confusion on whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division set out to address the confusion with a 15-page memo of guidance.
15 pages of a guidance…from the government. How can this not go wrong?
NFIB said, ““The guidance is going to make it harder to classify workers as independent contractors,”
National Home Builders Grand Pubah said, ““I’m appalled by the procedures they’re…
California Public Utilities Commission, which has oversight of ride share and taxis, ordered Uber to “pay a $7.3 million fine and hand over required information about safety and accessibility — or shut down in the ride service’s home state.”
Other ride share companies had provided the California Public Utilities Commission information, including:
A California regulator ruled certain ride share drivers to be employees for wage claim purposes and it has regulators, policy makers, attorneys and investors in overdrive.
Investors keep investing in the companies. The Recorder Bloomberg
Regulators & policymakers go both ways. Hillary Clinton is said to be using the independent contractor stance as a campaign issue. TechCrunch Jeb Bush is hailing a ride share vehicle to arrive at a speaking engagement with tech cred. SF Weekly …
California Legislature is in special session for transportation related issues. In this mix, is a new ride share bill that would exempt drivers for services such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar from having to register their personal cars as commercial vehicles.
The bill is in repsonse to regulatory action by California DMV that suggested every ride share vehicle (a vehicle transporting paying customers) needs commercial license plates.
Houston’s Ellington Field will be converted to the 10th spacecraft launch site in the country.
“The city of Houston has been approved by the FAA to build and operate a licensed, commercial spaceport. So let’s celebrate that,” said Houston Mayor Annise Parker.”