Ceasing Age-Based Trucking Restrictions Act

Summary

Changes federal commercial driver licensing rules so that moving goods from a port of entry to another location within the same State — when the shipment is part of trade or transport that began outside that State or the United States — is treated as intrastate rather than interstate for CDL purposes. It also adds a short title and updates the Title 49 table of chapters to reflect the new chapter.

• Reclassifies certain port-to-within-state freight movements as intrastate for CDL rules when part of shipments that originated outside the State or U.S.
• Adds a new chapter to Title 49 of the U.S. Code to codify this change and updates the chapter table.
• May allow drivers who do not meet federal interstate age or qualification thresholds to operate these specific movements under state intrastate rules.
• Affects trucking companies, drayage operators, ports, and state licensing authorities more than it affects federal funding or programs.
• Does not appropriate money or create new federal grant or spending programs.
• Could help address local driver shortages for short port drayage trips by widening the eligible driver pool.
• May raise safety, insurance, and enforcement concerns due to differing state versus federal qualification standards.
• Applies only when the movement is part of trade/transportation that began outside the State or the United States.