The company I work for won’t let any Californians be owner/operators because of stuff like this. I was pretty surprised when I came back to trucking after ~12

The company I work for won’t let any Californians be owner/operators because of stuff like this. I was pretty surprised when I came back to trucking after ~12 years they would let people lease trucks right off the street with zero experience as this seems to me to be a recipe for disaster but it is apparently good for their bottom line to have them running around paying all the costs and taking all the financial risks. If they fail they walk away and the company just finds someone else to run the truck. Don’t know the failure rate but I imagine it is fairly high, a couple bad weeks without any financial cushion and you’re in a world of hurt. Judging from the messages my dispatcher sends out every once in a while (I’m on an owner/operator fleet but am technically a company driver) there’s a lot of people struggling to make their numbers so they can do fun stuff like eating. Not saying it’s all bad, plenty of people make money doing this, just maybe have them get some experience before letting them take on the full responsibility of running a business. Interesting thing I found a while back on what the trucking companies are up to with the independent contractor stuff -> https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-340/55697/20180727121808059_36668%20pdf%20Final%20Brief.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-340/55697/20180...