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Testing and deployment of self-driving trucks may accelerate after the federal government announced a new "automated vehicle framework" and California is contemplating new rules allowing them.
Eight electronic logging devices from Gorilla Fleet Safety LLC have been taken off the list of registered ELDs by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. These ELDs were placed on the FMCSA’s Revoked Devices list due to the company’s failure to meet the minimum requirements set forth in federal regulations.
By Kindall C James, Matthew C Lonergan of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Exactly a year ago, we wrote about the final rule issued by the Biden-era U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regarding the test for determining whether a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), or an independent contractor exempt from FLSA coverage. The final rule became effective on March 11, 2024 (the “2024 rule”) and replaced the DOL’s independent contractor test that was adopted in 2021 during the first Trump administration (the “2021 rule”), which made it made it easier to classify workers as independent contractors. We previously wrote about the 2021 rule back in January 2021. Recent developments suggest that, under new leadership, the DOL may abandon the short-lived 2024 rule and implement changes to its guidance on this issue in the near future.
