the FMCSA gives ag haulers a few more months to adopt ELD...

I like all the freight haulers answers to the issue.. "just unload them while you take your break".. it's just that easy, right? You would be ok with your $100k+ load of cattle being unloaded at some random stockyard risking extra stress and disease? There is no where near the disease controlled infrastructure in place right now for that to ever work for the amount of cattle being transported at any given time and it'll take years and millions of dollars to get to that point. Who's going to pay for all that?

 

They’ll have their heads ripped off before the diseasees can make them sick.

All they need is a teammate if they need to drive longer

 

Oh, because every load of cattle is going to slaughter, right? Yeah, that's how it works..

Drive twice the miles for half the pay? No thanks. Besides, it's hard enough to fine one driver worth a #### let alone two.

 

If they are a good hand they are in a truck of their own. Who would team on 800 mile ride? Way more of them than 2k mile rides. The whole time they are on a trailer there is no water or feed available. No room to get out of their own waste. They are loosing weight and getting sick. Packing places won't take certain symptoms. I don't know of any feed lot or producer that likes to see sick cattle coming off a trailer. It is what it is.
If it makes me a cupcake fine, your opinions of me, the job I do or how I do it don't make a rats ### to me. Your intelligence shows from the simple fact you make comments on subjects you know nothing about nor have done. The post opens with name calling and stinks to high heaven with jealousy. How #### childish is that? Grow up worry bout what your doing I will worry bout what I'm doing.

 

So cattle hauling seems to be a good fit for team operation if you ask me (eLogs or not, HOS rules or not), if any trips can be expected to run further than 700 miles. Factor in hotel costs into the rate for a night or two in between loads. What's so difficult about that?

 

This is a positive development, as are all the dozens of requests from individual carriers (UPS for example) or industry subsets. It shines a huge bright light on the HOS regulations that the FMCSA can no longer ignore. They were hoping to just get the ELD's in place without reopening that can of worms. They were wrong. And that is going to take years of wrangling to figure out. look for proposals, counter proposals, lawsuits from all involved. And in the meantime the statistics will pile up indicating that the HOS regulations if enforced cause many more fatalities than the fictitious cr*p the Feds have been circulating for years.

 

If they still don't get their way after the 90 days is up, they can always grab their guns and take over a wildlife refuge or something.