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Truck Driver Misclassification

Climate, Labor, and Environmental Justice Impacts

Sam Appel and Carol Zabin

August 2019

This report analyzes a major barrier to successful implementation of new clean truck standards: the common trucking industry practice of classifying (and often misclassifying) truck drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.

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