Livestock haulers get temporary waiver from hours rule provision

You seriously think livestock haulers follow ANY HOS rules? If so, you're gull a cow... several steps below gullible.

 

Hey, nothing but respect for bullhaulers, I've done it, and have friends that still do it. It's the nature of it, they cannot comply with HOS rules... It doesn't work, they cannot stop... If they do, cattle/livestock can and do die on them... It's just a fact, and if they do die, they can be fined big time... and if they get caught out of HOS compliance they can be fined. They are in a ###### if you do ###### if you don't situation.

 

maybe I should be exempt too as I haul dead cold bulls

 

Unload the cattle into the Flying J TV room for 30 minutes. Just be careful to not accidentally reload any drivers in place of cattle. I know it will be difficult given the remarkable resemblance, by both sight and smell, of some.

 

I haul ######## sometimes... Am I exempt also???

 

Why are oversized loads held to curfew laws? Point is, your loads can wait. Your steak and chicken tenders in your reefer are already dead. The last thing we need are a bunch of dead animals in our trailers. Those liberal tree huggers are already a HUGE pain in the ### with all the supposed "animal abuse" that goes on! The only abuse that ever goes on in those livestock trailers is when you get gored real good by some F-Rank cattle, or that sawed off little city slicker feller that tucks his pants in his boots.

 

If you have long sets, you run 2, TWO, multiple drivers! Why would you categorize bull haulers as a bunch of HOS rule breakers? Do you think you are the only one that ever gets an audit?

 

Well, maybe things have changed... NOT, as I said... I've done it, and have friends that still do it. HOS rules many times just don't work for bull hauling. It's just the way it is, heck... out west the troopers know it and will leave a bull rack alone. Teaming up many times just doesn't work either... but hey, one can always find a way to log something legal for the audits... I have no doubt about this at all.

Yup, if it was logged that way, that is the way it was done... yup, no doubt about it.

 

If a team of Swift drivers can run 24/7 legally, then why can't a team of bull haulers? I've got 2 double bunk trucks specifically for the long hauls. It really comes down to the length of the haul. On some of those real long hauls, the driver can catch a break because that load is going to have to rest at a sale barn, especially if you are hauling horses.