CTA in the News
With the decision by the United States Supreme Court to deny hearing the association's case on AB 5, CTA's Government Affairs has worked diligently to identify opportunities to insert and convey the industry’s perspective on the impact this will have on independent owner-operators in California.
CTA's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Eric Sauer, spoke with various publications including Bloomberg News, Transport Trucking and Land Line on the effect of this decision.
California Throws 70,000 Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains
Bloomberg
July 8, 2022
Augusta Saraiva and Ngai Yeung
CTA's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Eric Sauer, spoke with various publications including Bloomberg News, Transport Trucking and Land Line on the effect of this decision.
California Throws 70,000 Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains
Bloomberg
July 8, 2022
Augusta Saraiva and Ngai Yeung
“This denial couldn’t have come at a worse time,” said Eric Sauer, senior vice president for government affairs at the CTA. “We’re in peak harvest season. We’re also in peak construction season. And this is the time for peak holiday imports coming into the ports.”
California’s AB 5 Goes Into Effect, Leaves Questions for Carriers, Owner-Operators
Transport Topics
July 7, 2022
Eric Miller
As for CTA, Eric Sauer, senior vice president of government affairs for the trade association, said the group is working with its attorneys and its legal advisory members to explore legal options, most likely aimed at the federal district court level.
“We’re going to be presenting those options to our membership in the coming days. There are some legal pathways that we can pursue.”
He added: “The valid question is, do these owner-operators even want to become employee drivers? Time and time again, these owner-operators that we have met with over the years say they like being owner-operators. They like the flexibility and they like the economic opportunity it provides them.”
“Gasoline has been poured on the fire that is our ongoing supply chain crisis,” the California Trucking Association said in a statement. “In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact of taking tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road will have devastating repercussions on an already fragile supply chain, increasing costs and worsening runaway inflation.”
