Doug Grawe is the founder of the Grawe Group.
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel Data Privacy in Transportation, Added Resources, and 2022 Hits By The Grawe Group, November 2022 Driver Data Privacy Issues Growing Recently a jury in Illinois awarded a class of BNSF railway employees $228 million for BNSF’s violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). Never to be outdone, California […]
U.S. DOL Shows its Colors By The Grawe Group, October 2022 This week the U.S. DOL released its proposed rule defining independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act. It is a proposed rule, not a final rule. The public has 45 days to comment on the rule, then the DOL will make any tweaks […]
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel Supreme Court Rejects Trucking’s Request for AB5 Review By The Grawe Group, June 2022 It turns out we did not have to wait long. Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the California Trucking Association’s challenge to California’s AB5 independent contractor status test. The Supreme Court turns AB5 […]
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel No AB5 News Yet… By The Grawe Group, June 2022 Last week the U.S. Supreme Court conferred for the last time in their current term. (They recess July-September usually.) Today we should have heard whether the Supreme Court would take the California Trucking Association’s challenge to California’s AB5 independent […]
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel ESG and Trucking By The Grawe Group, April 2022 We are fully in bid season for a lot of shippers, and you may be noticing a few more questions in the process about what your business is doing to help the environment, or to be a good corporate citizen […]
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel ICs and Driver Retention By The Grawe Group, January 2022 NLRB and Independent Contractors Recently the National Labor Relations Board invited interested parties to submit briefs in a case about what test should be used to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee under the […]
The Grawe Gazette – General Counsel Happy Holidays & Quick Hits By Doug Grawe, December 2021 Happy Holidays We want to wish all of our readers, clients, colleagues, and friends a happy, safe, holiday season. 2021 ends as one of the most action-packed in recent-history for trucking. As an industry we have received more mainstream […]
The Grawe Gazette – Executive Leadership from Ops Chair Prep to Win the Holiday Season By Gary Randall, November 2021 “Happy Thanksgiving!” “Merry Christmas!” – good wishes that can strike fear into even the most experienced Operations leaders. Amid the highest profile supply chain crisis in recent history, the added crunch of the holiday season […]
Improving Utilization: Meeting with a Purpose By The Grawe Group, LLC, October 2021 Time = The Most Undervalued Asset In transportation we talk utilization all the time. We measure equipment utilization, driver utilization, technician utilization, and so on. We analyze utilization to find ways to improve it, and we incentivize improving it. We know if […]
The U.S. DOT asked for comments and feedback on 13 questions about how the government can help improve the U.S. supply chain. We took the time to submit the following comments: Re: Docket: DOT-OST-2021-0106 Dear Administrator: I am a former general counsel a trucking, logistics, and warehouse provider, now serving trucking, logistics, and shipping […]
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