Dallas County Texas Sheriff

I would use this one under Transportation

• Employees who repair and maintain vehicles, aircraft, rail equipment, marine vessels, and the equipment and infrastructure that enables operations that encompass movement of cargo and passengers

My logic being that automobiles are infrastructure that enables movement of passengers. Now I am not a lawyer, but the essential need for motor vehicles is how I would argue it. That said, I have a hard time saying auction and new car transport is essential, towing of disabled and wrecked vehicles to clear the highway yes, other wholesale work not so much -especially with most of the auctions closed or sales postponed.

 

Half the cars in Adesa under certain areas (*Dealer) will not be drivable anyway. Not without charging or fresh batteries, other fluids and so on. Some have no brakes and cannot be moved safely.

The keys situation alone would be a nightmare. Ours in Little Rock has about a little over 1000 each week that needs to be parked by thursday auction.

 

Someone posted on TTR somewhere a picture of toilet paper strapped on a flatbed. Throw a 4 pack on the head rack , strap it down , put it on the BOL and roll.

 

I'm off this week so I'm helping my neighbor who runs a cross dock. Almost all his customers come from Rochester, NY and carry a variety of products.
What I saw Monday and yesterday was:
Ranch dressing- 10 pallets
Styrofoam trays for meat packing-stacked on top of dressing
Cardboard boxes for misc. packing
Chairs for Cardinals training facility
Glass panes-12 small pallets
Rolls of fabric
10 pallets of bagged silica sand

All these drivers are Eastern European, some team and some solo-some speak very little English.

The one guy I talked to said he left Rochester Sat. morning and arrived on Phx. Sun. night. They all run brand new Volvo's and just turn off the e-logs.

Gotta have my ranch dressing!

 

One of my big suppliers is back open in Fontana, they said they had to reopen bc their customers were screaming for their orders.

So, my customers in Phx. are putting together their orders for me to go back and resume my normal schedule next week.

 

Your key words in that section are repair and maintain. Which a car hauler DOES NOT perform. You are moving vehicles for sale not repair. It'd be different for a tow truck driver. As they are in the job of transporting a vehicle to be repaired. So while I am not a lawyer. I'd not see you getting away with being considered essential transporting cars on a car hauler. Just my personal thoughts.

It's why the service sections are open but the sales sections are not at dealerships.

 

they had better not stop the shipment of ammo to my favorite gun store and firing range..!!

 

This is exactly why a major carrier such as the one I am leased to would have someone who is an attorney interpret the FMCSA’s exemption letter. They wouldn’t distribute a letter to roughly 1000 drivers and owner ops explaining the exemption without being confident the exemption applies to us. Just knowing firsthand how dedicated they are about following safety and the law I can confidently make this statement.