There are issues with AB5 as it pertains to owner-operators (people who own their truck and drive it). Before AB5, a carrier company could hire an owner-operat

There are issues with AB5 as it pertains to owner-operators (people who own their truck and drive it). Before AB5, a carrier company could hire an owner-operator to do some work without them being employees (eg. to handle excess work that their employees could not), but now they cannot, so those carriers are not sending any more business to owner-operators. The options for owner-operators, who paid a large sum to acquire their truck, are to move out of California, become employees (owner-operators likely don't want that, hence them acquiring their own truck), or stop driving altogether. Since California is a major port of entry for goods in the USA, having fewer truckers to move those goods leads to logistical issues.