Trucking news & briefs for June 10, 2020:
FMCSA extends HOS waiver for certain COVID-19 relief haulers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended its hours of service exemption for COVID-19 emergency relief haulers for another month through July 14 while also narrowing its definition of relief loads. The waiver was set to end June 14.
The agency says the extension is due to the national emergency declared by President Trump still being in effect.
The waiver now only covers the following load types:
No longer included in the waiver are loads of food, paper products and other groceries for emergency restocking of stores; fuel; precursor raw materials like paper, plastic or alcohol; liquefied gases to be used in refrigeration or cooling systems; or equipment, supplies and persons meant to provide temporary housing and quarantine facilities.
FMCSA says there is “no longer a need for emergency relief with respect to the other categories of supplies, equipment, and persons covered by the May 13 extension.”
Bob Voltmann, head of TIA, stepping down at September’s end
Bob Voltmann, longtime president and CEO of the broker group Transportation Intermediaries Association, is leaving the association at the end of September, TIA announced Wednesday. Voltmann has been with TIA since June 1997. He called the decision to step down “difficult,” but that “it is time to continue to change and grow myself by taking on a new challenge.”
