Courtesy of NAA:
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced today that the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has requested an exemption from the requirement that a motor carrier require each of its drivers to use an electronic logging device (ELD) no later than December 18, 2017, to record the driver’s hours-of-service (HOS).
The NPPC states it requests the exemption for all livestock haulers as defined in the application (i.e., transporters of livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and insects) to address an incompatibility between the FMCSA’s HOS rules and the current structure and realities of the U.S. livestock industry. NPPC states that the livestock haulers will not be prepared to meet the December 18, 2017, compliance date for installing ELDs. NPPC believes that the exemption, if granted, would achieve a level of safety that is equivalent to, or greater than, the level that would be achieved absent such exemption.
Fish farms and live fish haulers that support this exemption should visit https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FMCSA-2017-0297 to review the NPPC petition and submit comments. The comment period ends November 30, 2017.
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