{"id":1589848,"date":"2022-08-04T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589848"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T23:20:42","slug":"california-truckers-impacted-by-new-law-warn-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-truckers-impacted-by-new-law-warn-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"California Truckers Impacted by New Law Warn \u2018Prices are Going to go Through the Roof\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-truckers-impacted-by-new-law-warn-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LONG BEACH, Calif.\u2014Michael Clifford works for a trucking company in Utah but spends much of his time making deliveries in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-california\">California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a non-resident company employee, Clifford said he\u2019s not happy with California\u2019s new labor law\u2014Assembly Bill 5 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ab-5\">AB 5<\/a>)\u2014that was passed and signed into law in 2019 and went into effect last month after a failed legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The new law requires independent truck owner-operators\u2014some 70,000 strong throughout the Golden State\u2014be classified as employees, with few exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owner-operators run on a tight profit margin. Everybody thinks they make a lot of money, but they don\u2019t,\u201d said Clifford while standing in line at a transportation logistics company near the Port of Long Beach on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>The way the new law is written, he said, AB 5 likely will do more harm than good to the state\u2019s trucking industry in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, it will create \u201call kinds of problems in the supply chain, the food supply chain,\u201d amidst a nationwide shortage of truck drivers, Clifford told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do here will affect the food supply in another country. It\u2019s very connected,\u201d Clifford said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/04\/DSC02829-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Michael Clifford, a company truck driver from Utah, waits in line for his entry papers at a transportation logistics company in Long Beach on July 26, 2022. Clifford said he thinks California\u2019s new state labor law redefining owner-operators as employees will hurt the industry long term. (Allan Stein\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge on whether AB 5 violates the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 regarding truck owner-operators.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s refusal to review the case removed a legal hurdle allowing the law to move forward in California, sparking protests across the state.\u00a0The California Trucking Association likened the situation to pouring gasoline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif.\u2014Michael Clifford works for a trucking company in Utah but spends much of his time making deliveries in California. As a non-resident company employee, Clifford said he\u2019s not happy with California\u2019s new labor law\u2014Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5)\u2014that was passed and signed into law in 2019 and went into effect last month after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}