Stakeholders in the trucking industry are jockeying for position on Capitol Hill as lawmakers begin prioritizing provisions to include in the next version of highway funding legislation.
A slate of issues were raised at a hearing Wednesday of a House Transportation subcommittee, including truck parking, freight fraud, driver pay and “fly-by-night” CDL schools, but increasing truck size and weights and evaluating the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s oversight of electronic logging devices for regulating driver hours of service stood out.
“[The ELD mandate] was one of the most expensive mandates imposed on trucking,” Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh told the committee.
