truck drivers are not minimum wage earners. This whole thing is utter nonsense. I know truck drivers from California who've raised large families on their wages.
The point is that the classification of independent contractors is almost entirely used to circumvent employee protections. I believe California is likely simply applying the correct definition of an employee, as there are multiple state and federal tests to determine if an employee is an independent contractor or not. However, I do think a lot of these people are just manipulated by their employers and politicians to act against their own best interests in making that determination. If companies don't want employees classified as employees, then they shouldn't treat them like one.
Truckers are not getting to make their own rules. That is the whole point of this. They are being treated like independent contractors, when in fact they are not.
