California law seeks to eliminate independent trucking faces protests

OAKLAND, California: Truck drivers in California protested a new state law, known as AB5, which makes it more difficult for independent drivers to transport goods and could reduce labor at the state's already clogged seaports.

The protest at the Oakland, California seaport choked traffic and threatens to worsen national supply chain issues, earlier reduced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

California's ports hand