FedEx Ground has agreed to a $26.8 million court settlement with 203 California drivers who argued they were misclassified by the company as independent contractors. Final court approval of the ...

This story appears in the Nov. 9 print edition of Transport Topics. FedEx Corp. said an Internal Revenue Service audit team has proposed that no assessment of federal employment taxes be made against ...

For decades, the trucking industry’s use of independent owner-operators has been a delicate, but successful, dance between the business and personal needs of motor carriers and contractors. Now, the ...

A former FedEx owner-operator recently told a congressional panel that the company had misclassified him as an independent contractor. Bob Williams, who worked for FedEx Home Delivery in Northboro, ...

Leasing owner-operators is one of the quickest ways a trucking company can increase the fleet’s capacity. However, there are several pitfalls with using leased owner-operators, for both the company ...