OOIDA sues Minnesota over CMV enforcement
November 20, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
More than six years’ worth of citations and out-of-service orders issued to truckers by the Minnesota Highway Patrol aren’t worth the paper they were written on, according to a lawsuit filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
OOIDA claims that’s because the state had no authority to enforce federal regulations.
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OOIDA takes arbitrary fatigue enforcement to court
May 14, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · 1 Comment
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association filed a lawsuit today challenging a Minnesota State Patrol’s arbitrary enforcement program used to declare truck drivers fatigued and to place them out of service.
The Association filed the lawsuit Wednesday, May 13, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of truck drivers placed out of [...]
