WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal task force has released its final report on trucking lease-purchase programs and recommended to Congress an action proposed at the task force\u2019s first meeting in 2023: an all-out ban on such programs.
\nThe 51-page report, issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration\u2019s Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), was sent to Congress and to the U.S. transportation and labor departments on Friday.
\nThe task force was created by the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate the prevalence of contracts drawn up by trucking companies to purposely take advantage of drivers.
\n\u201cTLTF\u2019s findings are clear. It formed a consensus to recommend that such arrangements, whereby a motor carrier controls the work, compensation, and debts of the driver should be prohibited,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal task force has released its final report on trucking lease-purchase programs and recommended to Congress an action proposed at the task force\u2019s first meeting in 2023: an all-out ban on such programs. The 51-page report, issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration\u2019s Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), was sent to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trucking-industry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotrucking.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}