{"id":501,"date":"2016-05-13T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/05\/13\/trending-port-trucker-classification\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:31:00","slug":"trending-port-trucker-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trending-port-trucker-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"TRENDING. Port. Trucker Classification."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s the issue about Ports and trucking companies?\u00a0<\/strong>Whether drivers of trucks at ports are employees of the trucking companies or independent contractors<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the big deal whether truckers at ports are employees or not?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a legal issue that has wrapped up ride share companies &amp; FEDEX<\/li>\n<li>Uber paid more than $100 M to settle claims<\/li>\n<li>FedEx settled at $228 Million on a driver classification suit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where is this issue hitting the cost of goods at ports &amp; trucking costs?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>The American Trucking Association says the trend will spread to other ports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/port-trucking-firms-run-into-labor-dispute-1462959003\">Wall Street Journal |\u00a0Port-Trucking Firms Run Into Labor Dispute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s the issue about Ports and trucking companies?\u00a0<\/strong>Whether drivers of trucks at ports are employees of the trucking companies or independent contractors<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the big deal whether truckers at ports are employees or not?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a legal issue that has wrapped up ride share companies &amp; FEDEX<\/li>\n<li>Uber paid more than $100 M to settle claims<\/li>\n<li>FedEx settled at $228 Million on a driver classification suit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where is this issue hitting the cost of goods at ports &amp; trucking costs?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ports of Long&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-ports","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}