New dot bill would exempt livestock haulers from Eld mandate

The ATA must of pulled some strings in Washington, they know that can't control that market, that will cause definite cause and disorder everywhere.

By rights, this don't change a thing.. Except that a bull hauler will go to the sell then change his log book to show he was there when he took his 10 hour break so he can get a fresh start after he gets loaded when the sale is over... Otherwise he'd be treated like anybody else...


It's bull shit as far as I'm concerned. My job takes me to the same places and with the same kind of wait time before I get loaded... I won't be exempt..

Pigs are even worse in the heat, they pack them in like sardines and they suffer enough the way it is, I can't imagine a load of those sitting for 10hrs in the summer heat with no water

Yep, it will get thrown out in court as soon as this happens

the funny thing about the ATA s members are they are the ones who ve been pushing this garbage since the beginning and yet as time goes on they are the ones who will suffer the most and in the end will go under....look at their fleets now, sitting half empty the other half full of somalians and those with diapers wrapped around their heads anf cant even speak spanglish...and this "new breed" of driver isnt going to do this for a couple hundred bucks a week and stay out 6-8 weeks at a time....they are quickly running out of sheep to shear....look at how quick these new drivers are getting in and OUT of trucking, its not like when i started in the early 90s, back then it was job jumping, now they just jump out of trucking all together

Hi all, first and foremost I completely oppose the ELD mandate. I do have several friends that pull a cattle rack and if you've ever been around or hauled cattle you know you have very limited time to stop before the critters lay down and then you have a stampede inside the rack and it is never a good outcome. I agree with there reasoning on live critters, but it needs to be thrown out because this is suppose to be an "Industry Standard", this is far from it. I personally haul feed to these critters all across the flint hills in blizzard conditions through the winter all day and night. They need feed due to no vegetation on the ground, this effects the lively hood of the critter, where is my exemption? I know this will start a whole string of probable exemptions because I know all of us are in the bulk industry and bulk ingredients are a necessity to the life demands for the human society.

This will get ugly by the time its all said and done.

Like it was said before, we all need to band together. It will be tough to do but the more of an effort the better the chances. We gotta fight guys! The easiest way is to read, share, like, and comment on the facebook pages that are designed to specifically target this issue. The pages are ELD OR ME and OPERATION BLACK AND BLUE. One of the best tools I've seen thus far is on OPERATION BLACK AND BLUE, it is a link that takes you to a pre-written letter that you can add input on and it will directly send a letter to your state congressmen in Washington. Please everyone participate in this. Also, another great thing they are doing is organizing the "meet up" in Washington DC. This is an organized event and there will be several of us up there. Please see Operation Black and Blue for the details. It is on Oct 3rd-8th. If you can attend great, if you can't make it to DC just park the truck and go on vacation, train some bird dogs, go fishing, or take care of that hunny-do list at home. You're going fishing aren't you Scott? This will be the best week to take a rest and park those trucks for a week. It will make an impact. We run a handful of trucks and we are having safety meetings on monday of that week and the rest of the week they can join us in DC or just take it off to relax. Have a great day everyone!

Iv had the pleasure of dragging a few 250 pounders out of the trailer after a long night, can't imagine doing that by hand..lol

I would like to see them hogs that weighed 500 or 600 pounds. Ha Ha

Boars

Because your a peon !

Just more evidence for my case.

FTFMCSA

Guys, now is not the time for more bickering. We cannot allow this dividing and conquering of us to continue. Think outside the box for a minute. What if this exemption leads to the striking down of this one-size-fits all ruling? This is the closest thing to a breakthrough we've had and we need it cause we are less than 6 months out from the mandate. This is a real chance to do something. ALL DIFFERENCES need to be put aside and we should ALL be asking what can we do to support our livestock hauling brothers and sisters in this latest development. This MIGHT JUST BE the opening of the Pandora's box needed for ALL OF US. Another thing we could all do is shut them all down like someone else suggested in another thread here in the forums recently. And for some of you new to the industry:::trip on this for a minute, if we would all shutdown for a week, this would be over. EVERYONE would be forced to listen to us. Now instead of replying and saying the usual "that won't happen" sit back and start really thinking what you as an individual can do and what roughly 3 million of us could do as a group. In short, lets stop the bickering and get something done. For me personally, I say good luck livestock haulers let's see what your part of the industry can accomplish! Disclaimer: these are my views as a driver for Jc Trucking, so please do not blow up my bosses e mail. Please respond here. Thank you. Sam, driver for JC Trucking.

The whole thing need to be change ELD isn't going to be the problem need to go back to the way it was when you drove six hours and wanted to take s nap for four hours you got your hours back. And it needs to go to a 80 week.

Trump and the republicans will fix it now that they are in charge