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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by KennyBlanken on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:04PM (#28921320)
> Certain logistics companies have been pushing drivers into "owner-operator" scenarios, where they are responsible for gas, insurance, maintenance, and lease payments, while not being given the flexibility to drive for other companies. Leaving some drivers with negative paychecks (basically, their pay didn't cover expenses).

So basically the trucking industry looked at Uber and Lyft and said "Oh, hey. Neat."

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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by ozim on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:35PM (#28922600)
No, from what I remember 10yrs ago when Uber was still starting it was already quite popular to push people into 'fake B2B' arrangement.

I remember truck drivers, paramedics and others pushed into 'fake B2B' for years and there is quite a lot of regulation in EU that if you have a single customer as a single proprietor you might be checked if it is 'fake B2B'.

Being an "app company" just made it easier.

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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by cardiffspaceman on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:14PM (#28925705)
As far as I recall, the roach coach that stopped at the place I worked at in 1980, twice a day, was 'staffed' by such an independent contractor.

We call them food trucks now and some of them really are independent I think, like the ones that cluster in Portland. But what I refer to served food that was not nearly as good.

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