Source: Mary Kennedy, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 8/13/18


The recent one-year extension to the electronic logging device (ELD) waiver for livestock haulers and live insect haulers recently passed by the Senate has caused mixed reactions throughout the trucking industry. The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) and the Trucking Alliance (Alliance) have been longtime opponents to any waivers to the mandate. Earlier in the year, the Advocates said in a press release on their website that, "ELDs are a common sense lifesaving technology and any attempts to bow to special interests and delay full enforcement of the ELD rule would only make our roads more dangerous.

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