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Overdrive Extra
Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em wrong’
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 them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what I’ve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.”
May 13, 2019
Business
Livestock 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.
April 19, 2019
Hours of Service
As Congress preps spending bills, lawmakers back another ELD waiver for livestockers
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 federal electronic logging device mandate through the 2020 fiscal year — Sept. 30, 2020.
April 15, 2019
Hours of Service
Lawmakers float bills to add unique hours of service regs for livestock/ag haulers
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 hauling livestock, bees and other ag commodities.
March 5, 2019
Voices
Don 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 motioned me to keep moving. You see some interesting things truck driving!” …
February 18, 2019
Hours of Service
Livestock groups ask DOT for hours-of-service waivers
Rather than the standard 14-hour on-duty period & 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 a 15-hour drive-time window within those 16 hours.
February 5, 2019
Business
House 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, as lawmakers and President Trump square off over funding for a wall along the southern border.
January 11, 2019
Hours of Service
Beef, bee orgs petition FMCSA to allow livestock drivers 16-hour on-duty period, 15-hour drive time
Organizations filed a petition with the FMCSA hoping the agency allows livestock haulers to have 16 hours of on-duty time and 15 hours of drive time per shift.
October 15, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD waiver for drivers hauling livestock, bees, extended again
Congress extends ELD waiver through the expiration of the funding legislation, allowing livestock and bee haulers to use paper logs through 7 December 2018.
October 10, 2018
Business
Senate passes bill to extend ELD waiver for livestock haulers through Sept. 2019
The Senate recently passed a bill that exempts livestock haulers from ELD mandate compliance for another year. Get more details on Overdrive.
August 1, 2018
Business
House bill would make modest hours of service changes, address split sleeper rule, nix ELD supporting docs
Hours of service regulations, split sleeper berth, and ELD supporting documents are at the heart of the new bill filed in the U.S. House on 21 June 2018.
June 22, 2018
Hours of Service
Another Senate bill targets hours, ELDs for livestock and ag haulers
The Modernizing Agricultural Transportation Act would task a "working group" to reshape HOS and ELD requirements for those hauling livestock and ag commodities.
June 19, 2018
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