HR 5423
Predatory Truck Leasing Prevention Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill aims to prevent ‘predatory’ truck leasing practices that can harm drivers. It requires the Secretary of Transportation to create regulations prohibiting lease-purchase agreements that unfairly control drivers’ work, compensation, and debts. Drivers who believe they were subjected to such agreements may be eligible for relief if the regulations are violated and the agreement was made after the regulations went into effect. The bill focuses on the overall relationship between motor carriers and drivers, not just the lease agreement itself.
Key provisions
- Requires the Secretary of Transportation to create regulations.
- Prohibits ‘predatory’ commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase programs.
- Defines ‘predatory commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase agreement program’ as a framework including contracts and practices.
- Establishes a process for drivers to seek relief from unfair lease-purchase agreements.
- Relief is available for agreements violating regulations and entered into after the regulations’ effective date.
- Defines ‘lease-purchase agreement’ as a contract where drivers lease vehicles from carriers.
- Applies to motor carriers providing transportation under federal jurisdiction.
Who is affected
- Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
- Motor Carriers
- Transportation Industry
- Federal Government (Department of Transportation)
Notable changes
- Creates a regulatory framework to address concerns about driver exploitation in truck leasing.
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Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] Norton
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 5423
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the use of predatory commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase programs by certain motor carriers, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Predatory Truck Leasing Prevention Act of 2025
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Section 14102 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
the lease-purchase agreement was entered into after the effective date of the regulations issued pursuant to paragraph (1).
In this subsection:
predatory commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase agreement programmeans the framework of motor carrier-driver relationship, including the lease-purchase agreement, the contract for the driver’s work for the motor carrier, and the motor carrier’s practices in implementing the contracts that are not provided in the contract, including the motor carrier’s recruitment practices, operational practices, and tax and finance practices, whereby the motor carrier controls the work, compensation, and debts of the driver, and the driver accrues no equity or is forced to give up equity accrued in the contracted truck.
lease-purchase agreementmeans a financial contract by which a driver leases a commercial motor vehicle from a motor carrier (or a firm affiliated with such motor carrier) to haul freight while driving for the same motor carrier under a separate contract.