Livestock Haulers Score ELD Exemption In New Budget Deal
Livestock Haulers Score ELD Exemption In New Budget DealAlmost all commercial truckers driving on the roads today are required by federal law to use Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) to ensure compliance with the Hours of Service (HOS) rules. But a few segments of the industry including livestock and insect haulers have managed to avoid compliance so far. Now it looks as though their exemption will last at least a little bit longer. Since the record-setting partial government shutdown which ended in January, lawmakers have been trying to reach a deal to avoid a second shutdown and keep the government open. Now that both the House and the Senate have passed the budget, it will go on to the White House where it looks like it will pass as well. While the budget mostly concerns government spending, the deal also includes riders for unrelated legislation slipped in. One of these riders…