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Contractors working on prevailing wage projects know that the law requires them to complete and submit certified payroll forms indicating the hours each workman worked within each trade classification.  However, some contractors are of the mistaken belief that the Department of Labor and Industry will condone a practice sometimes utilized by contractors of simply using a ratio of hours per day per workman for trade hours versus laborer hours worked. 

A follow up to our prior article, Some Clarity Through The Smoke, this piece will provide an overview of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration’s new Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse is the latest attempt by FMCSA to improve highway safety and is codified in subpart G of FMCSA’s drug and alcohol testing regulations,

At this point, mostly all Pennsylvanians are aware that the Commonwealth has legalized marijuana for medical use. Now, residents in the Commonwealth who have been diagnosed by a doctor participating in the program as having one of the 21 recognized serious medical conditions, can obtain a Medical Marijuana Card.

When an object or a person is at rest or in a state of stillness it or he/she is said to be in repose. If one were to take a drive down Cameron Street in Harrisburg, by what was once the thriving business known as Henry’s Tire Shop, what you would see is much of what used to be part of the McFarland Apartments parking lot, complete with a formerly parked car, piled up and lying in repose in the tire shop.

All too often we are called upon to investigate or defend trucking accidents involving a truck merging back onto a highway from the shoulder.

When in 1994, the Pennsylvania legislature initially passed prompt payment protection for contractors and subcontractors by enacting the Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act, commonly referred to as CASPA, construction contractors, particularly those acting in subcontractor roles, presumed that this legislative pronouncement preserved forever their rights to receive prompt payment for their work.

There is an old adage that those who do business with the government do so at their own peril. This would apply to construction contractors doing business with the Pennsylvania Department of General Services.

Every driver, owner operator, and motor carrier focuses on the “bottom line” and for good reason – success is dependent upon it.  In this article, we discuss one of the ways by which drivers and motor carriers can improve the bottom line – DataQs challenges. 

Like the United States Census Bureau’s counting of the American people once every decennial, so too does the American Institute of Architects introduce new versions of its form contract documents.