Originally published at: House panel debates ELD certification, truck weight limits - FreightWaves
Trucking interests are weighing in on their priorities as Congress begins planning the next highway bill.
They need to make up their mind. We’re told on one hand that there is a driver shortage then we’re told on the other hand that the freight rates are so low because there’s too many drivers…
ATA says driver shortage so they can lobby for megacarrier donors to do whatever they want, hire and train “migrants”, and lower the age limit for interstate CDLs.
Freightwaves says too many trucks to give credence to the broker excuse of too many trucks to lower rates, even though DAT still shows load to truck ratios that do not support that excuse.
Meanwhile when they go on and on about the tens of thousands of new MCs that were registered right after covid, they leave out the part where those were broker mc’s. The 2290 tax is published by the fed. Since 2019, growth has slowed on the number of actual trucks registered each year.
They need debate on how they going to stop these brokers from taking 40% 50% of the load from the drivers who doing all the work and have all the expenses