The Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen Wheelers Act would prevent the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from implementing any regulation requiring vehicles over 26,000 pounds to be equipped with a speed regulation device. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association Transportation Committee Chairman Steve Hilker supports the bill and says a federal mandate that controls livestock haulers’ speed would limit their autonomy. Hilker Trucking President Alleah Heise says regulating livestock hauler’s speed could actually make highways more unsafe. “One of the worst things we could do is slow trucks down in these rural, two-lane highways across America.” Heise says slowing trucks down could delay the supply chain and cause truckers to lose profit. “They’re losing about 100 miles per day that gets cut off their earnings.”
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