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The bill eases regulatory burdens and lowers costs for livestock transporters (and may shorten animal transport cycles) at the expense of increased roadway safety risks and reduced enforceability and oversight of driving hours.
Farmers, ranchers, livestock haulers, and small carriers will face fewer driving-time regulatory interruptions and avoid ELD compliance costs, enabling faster deliveries and lower transportation and administrative costs.
Farmers and transportation workers can make unladen trips while picking up or returning from deliveries, reducing downtime and shortening transport cycles — which can improve animal welfare by enabling timelier transport.
Drivers and other road users face higher crash risk because allowing longer driver hours without Hours-of-Service limits increases driver fatigue.
Local governments, accident investigators, and others will have reduced enforceable records of driving time because removing ELD mandates limits oversight and complicates crash investigations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Exempts commercial motor vehicles hauling livestock (including insects and live aquatic animals) and their drivers from federal HOS and ELD requirements, including when unladen.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Jeff Hurd · Last progress July 17, 2025
Exempts commercial motor vehicles that haul livestock (including insects, other commercially raised live animals, and live aquatic animals) and their drivers from federal hours-of-service (HOS) limits and electronic logging device (ELD) rules. The exemption also applies when the vehicle is unladen while going to pick up or returning from delivering animals. The measure relies on existing statutory definitions for "livestock" and "commercial motor vehicle" and does not create new funding, agencies, or deadlines.