What Are the Legal Frameworks for Truck Drivers?

Rachel pre-mac is the editorial director at Freight Waves and the author of the great modes newsletter. She says trucking has been caught up in some of the legal issues around gig economy workers, specifically in California. But there's also legal issues elsewhere in the US as well., she says. Pre-Mac: There are about two million employed long haul truck drivers in the US. About 300 to 400,000 of those are owner operators,. And they definitely would count as the so-called gig economy, even though it's not really, we don't really think of them the same way we think of Uber, Lyft or DoorDash.