Category: Road Warrior
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Fwd: Road Warrior: Industry Data, Credit Card Settlement, Below Cost Selling
August 01, 2024 State of the Industry-Gas Stations Recently, the US Census Bureau released the 2022 numbers for their Annual Business Census. We at NJGCA track these stats, and it can be interesting and useful to know not just what our place is in the economy today, but how it has changed over the last…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: New Interpretations of Discrimination Law, New State Retirement Program
July 25, 2024 New Interpretations of Discrimination Law The NJ Attorney General’s Office Division on Civil Rights recently proposed a series of regulations that explicitly outlaw a variety of practices in the employment world. They argue that these are not actually new requirements, what they are instead doing is writing down what the courts…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: New Benefit Partner, Vacant Property Liability
July 18, 2024 New Benefit Partner: M&V custom apparel At M&V Custom Apparel, they bring your unique designs to life with top-notch quality and personalized service. As a family-owned and disabled service veteran-operated business, they pride themselves on offering a wide range of custom printing and embroidery services tailored to your needs. Their easy-to-use online…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: Big New Heat Rule Proposed by OSHA
July 11, 2024 OSHA's Heat Exposure Proposal Last week, just before the July 4th holiday, the federal Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released the draft text of its broad new regulation concerning exposure to high heat. These proposed regulations amount to one of the biggest and most burdensome interventions in the…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: Happy Independence Day
July 4, 2024 State Budget is Passed, Sales Tax on EVs starts October 1 We discussed the details of the New Jersey Fiscal Year 2025 budget in depth last week. You can read that HERE if you missed it. The major tax increase was the new 'corporate transit fee', a tax on c-corp net profits…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: State Budget and Taxes, Compliance Calendar Update, Bans Proposed
June 27, 2024 Compliance Calendars Revised Earlier this year, we sent members a link to the 2024 New Jersey Fuel Dispensing Facilities Compliance Calendar for station owners to download. The DEP's compliance calendar is an essential too, and we have continually encouraged members to use it every day to keep them on track and prevent…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: Heat Tips, Overtime Regs, Dirty Dirt
June 20, 2024 High Heat Tips to Protect Employees Recently lawmakers in Trenton have been pushing a very burdensome and overly broad bill to require a lot of new complex regulations for virtually all employers whenever they are working in excessive heat. You can read all the details HERE. While that bill seeks to define…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: UST Info, State Budget Looming
June 13, 2024 Association attends UST Compliance Seminar Last month, NJGCA sent a notice out to members regarding the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJ DEP) UST Compliance Seminar in Hamilton. This is an event that typically takes place twice a year, and it is always helpful and informative. Last week our staffers attended…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: DEP Regs and Fed Impacts
June 6, 2024 Preview of DEP Changes This week, NJGCA attended an environmental regulatory conference hosted by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association. The event was well attended and covered a number of notable topics. We won't bore you with the nitty-gritty details. Two panels touched on New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP)…
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Fwd: Road Warrior: Settlement Deadline Extended, Local Gas Supply Sold Off, Lottery Update
May 23, 2024 Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve Being Sold Off Soon Two months ago we warned membership, Congress, and the press about a small provision in the last big federal government spending deal which orders the elimination of the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve (NGSR), a reserve of 1 million barrels of refined gasoline (700,000 in…