"CA Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty. AB5..was about outlawing freelance employees in order to force them into unions. ..crushed freelance workers ....While truckers are still protected from AB5, many in the industry are NOT willing ...Last year, CA DMV began REFUSING to register 1000's of trucks ..With "green" trucks costing $70,000 more, this was a non-starter for already troubled independent owner-operators and even larger companies...
.. during the pandemic... the loss of traffic convinced trucking companies and owner operators who were already battered by AB5 .. that it was better to just downsize or pull out entirely. .."
