Disruptors Continue to Create Challenges for the Independent Contractor Business Model -

Our increasingly on-demand, technology-driven economy has been a petri dish for disruptive business models that are responsible for many recent challenges to the mainstream trucking industry’s use of independent contractors in its operations. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and, most recently, Grubhub, that operationally toe, cross, or altogether ignore the line between employees and independent contractors, unfairly taint the perspective of judges, juries, and the public as a whole. Motor carriers fully-engaged in the typical movement of goods, whether on-demand courier, package parcel, LTL, truckload, or expedited, for example, that engage independent contractors in their operations, are unjustly viewed to be just as aggressive as disruptive enterprises when faced with legal challenges. As a result, the legal attacks on delivery disruptors, like Grubhub, are essential to strategic decision-making.