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ELD requirements for livestock haulers will remain suspended during shutdown

Electronic Logging Device requirements for livestock haulers will remain suspended during the government shutdown.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says drivers hauling livestock and insects can continue to run on paper logs and without an ELD until further notice.

Livestock Marketing Association general counsel Jara Settles says regulations to limit truckers to driving 11 hours per day aren’t practical for animal transport.

“There are a lot of places you can get to in 11 hours, but cattle are born all over this country and have to move to the center of (the U.S.) to be fed, processed, and all of that.  A lot of times those trips are longer than 11 hours, and stopping for 10 consecutive hours of rest just isn’t an option.  It’s not the right thing to do for those animals.”

LMA, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and National Pork Producers Council have been seeking a permanent exemption to ELD requirements, and there have been questions about what the government shutdown might mean for livestock haulers.

NCBA says only Congress has the authority to grant a permanent exemption.

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  When they bring there trucks into the shop and for a alternator and tell you how the money’s swinging off there trailers putting cows on it . They have been on the road and Coke way too long

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  I am sorry , But it should be the same for all truck driver. You can’t just say that. If they don’t have to do it than other truckers shouldn’t have to do it to. I able going to share this to let the other truckers know what you are doing. You can’t just pick and choose.

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