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06.22.18 Press Releases, Transportation

NGFA supports bill that would relieve ag truckers from electronic logging device mandate

ARLINGTON, Va., June 18, 2018 — The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) is urging Congress to enact a bill that would relieve trucks involved in hauling agricultural products from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s costly electronic logging device (ELD) mandate.
 
Reps. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., introduced the Agricultural Business Electronic Logging Device Exemption Act of 2018, which would completely exempt agricultural businesses from the ELD mandate. The mandate requires commercial drivers who prepare hours-of-service records to connect an electronic logging device to a vehicle’s engine to record driving hours. The bill would provide truck drivers hauling agricultural products the option to use paper logs or electronic logging devices to comply with the hours-of-service regulations.
 
“This legislation would eliminate costly and impractical regulations for agricultural shippers reliant upon truck transportation,” said NGFA Director of Economics and Government Relations Max Fisher. “The NGFA believes the ELD rule is unnecessary for this segment of the trucking industry, and will provide no new safety, economic, or productivity benefits. If farmers and agricultural shippers are not relieved from the ELD rule, its implementation will add to freight costs and make U.S. agricultural products less competitive in the highly competitive global market in which it operates.”
 
The current exemption for drivers hauling agricultural commodities expires June 18. Livestock and insect haulers have an extended exemption – through Sept. 30, 2018 – that was included in the spending package signed into law earlier this year. However, drivers hauling non-livestock agricultural commodities are required to begin using an ELD by June 19.
 
NGFA urged U.S. DOT to delay implantation and ultimately revoke the ELD rule for agricultural truckers in a statement submitted to the agency on Dec. 1. In its statement, NGFA noted how vitally important truck transportation is to the movement of grain, feed and feed ingredients, transporting approximately 20 million truckloads from field-to-storage and often at least one more time before arriving at the destination.
 
U.S. DOT estimates the average ELD cost per truck at $785 per year. Unneeded regulatory costs such as this add up and increase transportation costs, NGFA noted, and place additional burdens on an industry already struggling with driver shortages and other regulatory challenges.
 
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Lacy Holleman
Manager of Legal Affairs and Arbitration

lholleman@ngfa.org

Lacy provides staff support for one of NGFA’s premier member services – its more than century old system of industry trade rules and arbitration that facilitates the efficient marketing of grains, oilseeds and their derived products. She also works on contracting, legal and other related matters.

An Arkansas native, Lacy received her undergraduate degree with a double major in history and Russian studies from the University of Tulsa (Okla.) and her law degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Prior to joining NGFA’s staff in November 2020, she managed a local business at the Pentagon and completed mediation training required by the North Carolina Supreme Court for those seeking to serve as mediators for settlement conferences and other settlement procedures in North Carolina Superior Court civil actions. She also has worked as an assistant for a law firm in her native state.