Health Care for Truckers The Healthy Trucking Association of America and the Convenient Care Association announced plans to launch a nationwide program aimed at making high-quality health care more accessible and affordable for professional truck drivers. The joint initiative was announced at the Healthy Trucking Summit, taking place through March 3 in Atlanta. Through the [...]
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has initiated its second year of grants totaling $19 million for hybrid vehicle technology that significantly reduces smog-forming and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program will provide vouchers on a first-come, first-served basis to help California fleets purchase fuel-efficient hybrid medium- and heavy-duty [...]
The new 2012 budget includes a $129 billion for the first year of a six-year plan for the US Department of Transportation. It will put Americans to work repairing the bridges and repaving the roads we have now, while supporting the development of the new electric buses and high-speed rail lines of America’s future. With [...]
Whether an individual working for you qualifies as an employee or an independent contractor is a question with no clear answer. Often the employer’s decision on whether to classify an employee as exempt or non-exempt is based on a written job description. The classification decision is made by human resource personnel or even legal counsel [...]
You may think that workers compensation insurance is a necessary evil for you as an employer. How you handle on the job injuries and, more importantly, how you handle the out of work situations that you will face with your employees will go a long way toward reducing or increasing your future workers compensation costs. Below are [...]
