What happens if that vehicle is in an accident while delivering for the company? Is the company responsible, or is the private individual?
Typically the company has insurance that covers the accident, although they may have loopholes that make the individual responsible in certain cases. (DUIs)
My sense is that in the US there is a growing body of corporate thought which seeks to offload the cost of employment entirely onto the consumer, or, failing that, onto the employee.
In a nutshell, yes, however, the company still has to handle the on boarding processes for new hires with the HR department.
Benefits (such as sick pay, pensions, maternal leave, holiday pay) are eroded, while salaries are cut to the bone, and would be abolished outright if some companies thought they could get away with this.
The biggest mistake that I've seen in businesses where I'm at are businesses pushing Salary (not hourly) pay at $15 an hour. Usually this means that this person is going to work over 40 hours but still receive the same pay, it's a loophole, IMO Salaried workers should not make less than $40,000 a year and if I'm correct, a law has been passed that forces Salaried workers to make at least $51,500.
The US economy can eat someone alive if they don't know what to watch out for, at the same time with the way it's set up, played right there is no limit to a worker's income, in the end it's just taxes that bite you and what most Americans gripe about, but people usually write a lot of stuff off on their taxes just to drop them to the next tax bracket. The current tax bracket information is available on the IRS website, it just gets difficult for people to write of $12,500 if they make $50,000 a year to get out of the 35% tax bracket. Likewise, people who work hourly for $37,000 who end up working overtime might go over that $37,500 mark and end up paying 35% taxes rather than 25%.