The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted reprieve from hours-of-service rules to one group and received an exemption request from the rules from another.
February 5, 2019agriculture
Government, Business, Safety
Chickens are transported for processing. (Getty Images)
FMCSA Grants One HOS Exemption, Receives Request for Another
Chickens are transported for processing. (Getty Images)
Government, Business, Logistics
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Truck Drivers on the Lookout for Spotted Lanternfly
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
A troublesome tiny Asian visitor known as the spotted lanternfly is hopping from fruit trees onto trucks and railcars throughout the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, threatening to ruin billions of dollars of agricultural commodities in the state and elsewhere.
February 1, 2019
Business, Technology
Virgo Invests in Indoor Farming Company 80 Acres Farms
Virgo Investment Group has made a “significant” investment in 80 Acres Farms, a Cincinnati-based indoor farming company, according to a Jan. 15 press release. Financial terms were not disclosed.
January 24, 2019
Business
Paul Schockemöhle Logistics
Paul Schockemöhle Logistics' Story Familiar to American Trucking Companies
Paul Schockemöhle Logistics
, Germany — The story of Paul Schockemöhle Logistics is one that many trucking executives in the United States would recognize. The journey traverses five decades from a small farmhouse here to becoming a multinational transportation and logistics powerhouse with a fleet of 600 trucks and revenue of between 100 and 120 million euros a year.
October 23, 2018
Technology, Logistics, Top 100
A forklift truck picks up a container at the Freight Farms production facility. (Freight Farms)
Container Farms: A New Type of Agriculture
A forklift truck picks up a container at the Freight Farms production facility. (Freight Farms)
Innovators within the produce industry are breaking the boundaries of food production — by growing crops not in fields, but in recycled shipping containers.
August 20, 2018
Government, Business, Technology, Safety
Livestock hauler by David B./Flickr
Senate Bill Would Ease HOS, ELD Demands for Ag Haulers
Livestock hauler by David B./Flickr
A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced a bill that would relax both electronic logging device and hours-of-service requirements for livestock haulers.
May 29, 2018
Government, Business
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed the law April 18. (Mark Zaleski/Associated Press)
Tennessee Law Prohibits State Funds From Supporting ELD Enforcement of Ag Haulers
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed the law April 18. (Mark Zaleski/Associated Press)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a law April 18 that would prohibit state funds from being used to enforce electronic logging device regulations for certain agriculture-related hauls.
April 19, 2018
Government, Business, Equipment, Safety
HouseAppropsGOP via YouTube
Chao Stresses Continued Outreach to Ag Haulers on ELD, HOS Rules
HouseAppropsGOP via YouTube
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will continue to meet with and host briefings geared toward livestock haulers who are discontent with the electronic logging device rule, according to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
April 12, 2018
Government, Business, Technology
The U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2018 (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)
Spending Bill Includes Extension of ELD Exemption on Livestock
The U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2018 (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)
Motor carriers that haul livestock will be exempted from the federal electronic logging device mandate until Sept. 30 under language included in a $1.3 trillion omnibus funding measure the U.S. House of Representatives advanced March 22.
March 21, 2018
Government, Business
An ag hauler moves almonds out of Linden, Calif. (Devine Intermodal)
FMCSA Gives Ag Haulers 90-Day Extension on Waiver From ELD Rule
An ag hauler moves almonds out of Linden, Calif. (Devine Intermodal)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced an additional 90-day temporary waiver from the electronic logging device rule for agriculture-related transportation.
March 14, 2018Pages
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