Everchanging federal and state employment laws and regulations continue to increase the complexities of the trucking industry. Further complicating matters, there is no end to a shortage of qualified drivers. Consequently, the alternative employment industry, including professional employer organizations (PEO), staffing, temporary employment, and many others comprising the alternative workforce industry, has experienced substantial growth, particularly in the area of driver staffing.

Through our work in federal and state legislative initiatives regarding PEO’s and driver staffing, we have helped to forge the laws and regulations that shaped today’s alternating staffing industry. In the 1980’s many motor carrier companies began to incorporate separate driver leasing companies to address the increasing crisis caused by the driver shortage and driver retention issues. Since then, we have helped hundreds of our temporary and long-term driver staffing and PEO companies expand operations to include the provision of employees to all areas of the transportation industry, including drivers, dispatch, mechanics, sales, and clerical personnel.

As with any industry segment that experiences rapid growth, driver staffing and the driver leasing segment of the PEO industry have experienced many challenges. Scopelitis assists both our staffing industry company clients and our motor carrier clients that utilize the services of alternative staffing resources in all facets of operations, including resolving controversies that arise as our clients navigate sometimes uncharted waters of alternative workforce strategies. From assistance with compliance in various state regulatory and licensing requirements to litigation of controversies, we have represented clients before many agencies, including:

• State unemployment insurance departments
• Workers’ compensation boards
• Licensing boards
• State revenue departments
• The Internal Revenue Service

As an associate member of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations, the preeminent trade association representing the PEO industry, and a long-time member of and advisor to the American Trucking Associations, we stay abreast of issues facing the alternative staffing industry nationwide particularly as these issues involve transportation.

When the need for legal counsel for staffing companies and PEOs with a concentration in driver staffing arises, they reach out to Scopelitis, the national leader in this area.