Hours of Service

Governor Greg Gianforte signed an emergency executive order on April 16, 2024 providing a 2 week window of reduced hours of service regulations for fertilizer delivery in Montana.  This order …

Livestock groups are disappointed about a regulatory decision by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration denying an exemption application over hours-of-service rules for hauling livestock. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety …

Late Friday night, the House passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which passed the Senate in mid-August and now goes to President Biden for his signature. The bill …

Livestock haulers may soon see much-needed regulatory flexibility. Crucial language pulled from the HAULS Act to provide for a 150 air-mile exemption from Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules, was adopted into the …

U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee and chairman of the subcommittee on Transportation and Safety, introduced legislation that would provide livestock haulers flexibility and …

A bipartisan group of Senators have sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to push for greater flexibility in the Hours of Service regulations for …

Montana Farm Bureau members were back in the nation’s capital February 20-21, this time for American Farm Bureau’s Issues Advisory Committee meetings as well as meeting for the second time …

Last week, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released its long-awaited proposal to increase flexibility for truckers by revising the rules around the amount of time …

On June 4, the House Appropriations Committee said in a news release that they approved the fiscal year 2020 funding of the Department of Transportation and other related agencies, bringing …

(WASHINGTON) – Wednesday, Montana Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines along with Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse introduced a bipartisan bill to provide livestock haulers with regulatory relief from the restrictive …