Senate passes bill to extend ELD waiver for livestock haulers through Sept. 2019
The measure still has hurdles to clear before becoming final, however, including passage in the House and a likely conference committee between lawmakers from the House and the Senate. The bill must...
View ArticleELD waiver for drivers hauling livestock, bees, extended again
In a short-term government funding bill signed by President Trump on Sept. 28, Congress extended the ELD waiver for livestock and bee haulers through the expiration of the funding legislation --...
View ArticleBeef, bee orgs petition FMCSA to allow livestock drivers 16-hour on-duty...
A group of organizations representing cattle farmers and honey bee producers has filed a petition with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asking the agency to allow drivers hauling...
View ArticleHouse clears DOT funding bill that maintains ELD waiver for livestock haulers
Livestock and bee haulers have been allowed to run on paper logs and without an ELD since the mandate took effect in December 2017. However, the bill faces strong headwinds in ultimately becoming law,...
View ArticleLivestock groups ask DOT for hours-of-service waivers
Instead of the standard 14-hour on-duty period and 11-hour drive-time limit, the groups have asked FMCSA to allow them for a 16-hour on-duty period after an off-duty period of 10 consecutive hours and...
View ArticleDon Christner presents ‘Open range trucking in Wyoming’
"I came over a rise and met a herd of sheep," trucker and sometime Overdrive Extra blog contributors tells of this particular episode caught on video. "I brought the Kenworth to a stop and the Cowboy...
View ArticleLawmakers float bills to add unique hours of service regs for livestock/ag...
Renewing efforts that began last Congress, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation that, if passed, would facilitate creation of special hours of service regs for drivers...
View ArticleAs Congress preps spending bills, lawmakers back another ELD waiver for...
A block of 63 lawmakers in the U.S. House has penned a letter to transportation appropriation leaders asking them to allow drivers hauling livestock and bees to remain exempt from compliance with the...
View ArticleLivestock hauling: Caring for cargo
The same considerations behind the ELD exemptions also raise the standard for what it takes to operate successfully in livestock hauling.
View ArticleBull hauler Mary Hooks was told ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em...
The latest in the "Faces of the Road" series of profiles features Hooks and her 2014 389: "I learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. There's people out there in Texas ..., most of...
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