There's been more chatter about the old "two-check" system of pay for owner-operators contracted to carriers in the last year and more as fleets of all shapes and sizes in California or with California-based independent contractor owner-ops ponder what approach to take to preserve relationships with business relationships with owner-ops in the wake of the state's codification of the so-called "ABC" independent contractor classification test. California's newly passed bill establishes that test as the go-to one when determining the appropriateness of the independent contractor classification for workers in all manner of sectors and operations, trucking included. Unless there’s clear action in courts or something else that happens legislatively in the state, that will become the law of the land there the first month of next year. Though the two-check employee/contractor hybrid system for owner-operators is something a "dinosaur" in trucking today, some believe it could hold promise in a manner of areas. OOIDA board member Monte Wiederhold speaks to possibilities and his memory of the system when he started trucking in the late 1970s, up through the 1990s.