Ag Haulers Linked to Fate of Agriculture

June 26, 2000 9:00 AM, EDT

WASHINGTON — Agricultural haulers have a special connection to the freight they haul that is not shared by a truckload carrier moving boxes of underwear one day and computers the next.

A forest declared off-limits to logging or a crop-withering drought can leave these specialty truckers nothing to haul.

So trucking company executives attending American Trucking Associations’ Agricultural Transporters Conference’s annual meeting were not only concerned about issues like work-hour changes for drivers, but also the challenges facing timber companies and farmers.

At the meeting, June 19-20, Steve Jarvis, director of forestry programs for the Forest Resources Association, told the truckers that they were not the only ones fighting government regulations.

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