A measure proposed in the last session of Congress has resurfaced this session in the U.S. House. It’s called the Transporting Livestock Across America Safety Act and is designed to make Electronic Logging Device and hours of service regulations friendlier to those who transport livestock. Minnesota Cattlemen’s Association Past President Krist Wollum says his group has been in favor of this type of legislation for some time and would like to see it approved.
He says the extended stops called for by the ELD and Hours of service rules will be dangerous for livestock in both the summer and winter months.
Wollum says without the exemption to livestock haulers from the ELD and Hours of service rules, that will create costs for producers at a time when agriculture is already feeling a financial pinch.
The bill is sponsored by Congressman Ted Yoho, a veterinarian from Florida and co-sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota.
