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In particular: The 150 mile rule here in the US. Under 150 miles, if you're driving more than 25 hours a week you're legally an employee not a contractor. Big states like Illinois, California, New York, Massachusetts etc don't care if the driver says otherwise because they want the payroll taxes. They'll demand the taxes from the employer and demand withholding for a W-2. If the employer fails to comply then employees can sue or, worse, form a Union. Specifically for anything under 150 miles.
The average fleet isn't dealing with this because it means they must have legit insurance, legit tags and legit emissions on all their vehicles and trailers. This requires effort and (often) a dedicated maintenance guy, and these companies are just some guy in an office or another truck. They will not deal with this and will shut down leaving Walmart without a transporter. Or, rather, it'd leave Walmart without a transporter at a Walmart rate. Walmart demands low prices from their contractors and if they can't get it they close stores. All big box stores are like this and they cannot adapt to a tighter labor or regulatory market, which is why they spend so much on advertising against it. Walmart is also a load broker themselves, and they rent space in their warehouses to third parties, so they profit from other companies' loads too.
It is all very jewish and California letting jeets issue CDLs to each other -again, the CA DMV never saw the killer Florida driver in question- is just one aspect. The larger business needs to be pulled apart. Giving California credit, a diesel truck ban would do this because the govt tax side of this is governed by the US-CAN IRP. If Trump or Carney kills IRP to spite each other, then individual states/provinces would have a very strong incentive to have their own trucking rules or ban diesel/gas/ICE trucks.