Trucks, bearing the logos and cargo of companies in industries ranging from manufacturing to food, consumer goods to raw materials, each day traverse the seemingly endless thousands of miles of road in our nation to fill our stores and homes with their goods.
It's an industry that many of us do not give much thought to unless we have direct contact with the trucking sector.
In 2016 trucking freight revenues accounted for over $738.9 billion in the United States.
I recently had the chance to look over a particular policy issue that's been affecting the trucking industry, specifically the implementation of an "Electronic Log Device" requirement and the schedule that must be followed from it.
The federal rule, implemented in 2015 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and only beginning to be enforced in recent months, has caused already a wide array of complaints across the trucking sector due to its rigidity and disconnection from the realties of how the business is run.
On a broader scale, it appears that the rule was implemented as well with only a little input from the trucking associations but almost nothing from truckers themselves, who are exposed to the realities of the business on a daily basis.
Wider potential ripple effects including effects on the prices of food, consumer goods of every sort, industry, and just about every industry that relies on trucking, which constitutes about 70%, as compared to trains, planes, cars, and ships, of freight transportation in the United States.
The federal rulemaking process incorporates industry feedback as well as general public comment, but as one person with whom I recently discussed the ELD issue with mentioned "Truck drivers don't sit around reading the Federal Register," with the Federal Register being a place where rule notices are published.
This trucking regulatory mishap that is having a wide array of unintended effects shows the importance of citizen engagement.
https://spectator.org/the-trucking-industry-regulatory-mishaps-and-self-governance/
It's an industry that many of us do not give much thought to unless we have direct contact with the trucking sector.
In 2016 trucking freight revenues accounted for over $738.9 billion in the United States.
I recently had the chance to look over a particular policy issue that's been affecting the trucking industry, specifically the implementation of an "Electronic Log Device" requirement and the schedule that must be followed from it.
The federal rule, implemented in 2015 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and only beginning to be enforced in recent months, has caused already a wide array of complaints across the trucking sector due to its rigidity and disconnection from the realties of how the business is run.
On a broader scale, it appears that the rule was implemented as well with only a little input from the trucking associations but almost nothing from truckers themselves, who are exposed to the realities of the business on a daily basis.
Wider potential ripple effects including effects on the prices of food, consumer goods of every sort, industry, and just about every industry that relies on trucking, which constitutes about 70%, as compared to trains, planes, cars, and ships, of freight transportation in the United States.
The federal rulemaking process incorporates industry feedback as well as general public comment, but as one person with whom I recently discussed the ELD issue with mentioned "Truck drivers don't sit around reading the Federal Register," with the Federal Register being a place where rule notices are published.
This trucking regulatory mishap that is having a wide array of unintended effects shows the importance of citizen engagement.
https://spectator.org/the-trucking-industry-regulatory-mishaps-and-self-governance/
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