This is about independent contractors and 1099 tax forms.
It really screwed things up for owner/operators that are leased to larger companies.
AB5 or whatever it was called in California caused turmoil.
Let's say your a California resident and own a truck leased to Landstar. AB5 (and this law in WV) made being an independent contractor to a company that's business was solely trucking illegal (and everything else from Uber to tax consulting and everything in between.). You were REQUIRED to be an employee.
I'm some instances this makes a lot of sense. Many employers make positions contractors to avoid paying insurance, FICA, and taxes.
But I'm trucking, leasing to a large company gives you a lot of benefits, especially access to their coast to coast freight base...and frees you from many paperwork and compliance issues that have become almost to burdensome for an independent operator to handle when he or she is a one man operator.
But a company isn't going to hire you and your truck and still pay you 82% of the line haul. They either have employed drivers that they pay 30% (approximately depending on company and freight) to drive THEIR trucks...or, like Landstar, they already have a system with 10,000 other owner operators from states that don't have these new rules.
It's a mess.