July 21, 2025

TO:                  NJMTA Members

FROM:            Eric DeGesero, EDGE Consulting, Lobbyist

Last month the NJ Motor Truck Association testified in opposition to the NJ Department of Labor’s newly proposed (May 2025) ABC test regulation. This proposed regulation further restricts the rights of owner-operator independent contractors in the trucking industry in New Jersey. Here is a write-up from the June 23, 2025, hearing.

It isn’t only the trucking industry which is harmed by the proposed regulations. Independent contractors of all types have coalesced in opposition to most recent example of Governor Murphy’s regulatory overkill. Click here for a link to a letter you can send to Governor Murphy, your state senator, and both of your state representatives, urging them to opose Trenton’s latest attack on economic liberty.