NPPC Seeking Waiver from ELD Mandate

The National Pork Producers Council is joining with other livestock industries asking for a delay of implementation, or a waiver of the new Electronic Logging Devices rule that is scheduled to go into effect December 18^th.

NPPC President Ken Maschhoff says that livestock haulers have, “have a moral obligation to care for the animals they’re hauling regardless of what some bureaucratic rule says.”

The concern is the limitations of 11 hours of driving daily, 10 consecutive hours of not driving, and on-duty restricted to 14 consecutive hours would put animal welfare at risk.

The Department of Transportation did recently issue an interpretation intended to address shortcomings in its Hours of Service rules, exempting from the regulations and from any distance-logging requirements truckers hauling livestock within a 150 air-mile radius of the location at which animals were loaded.

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