A diverse coalition of organizations and a major business have joined forces to oppose the federal government’s mandated installation of electronic logging devices.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association last week announced the formation of a coalition to back a two-year delay of the Dec. 18 ELD mandate compliance deadline. The coalition supports a bill introduced in the U.S. House earlier this year by Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) that would delay the ELD mandate’s adoption deadline to December 2019.
The new coalition includes industry trade groups representing agriculture, petroleum, utility contractors, and other interests — groups OOIDA says would “be negatively impacted by the mandate.”
The sole business in the coalition is Lucas Oil Products.
The coalition includes:
- Agricultural Retailers Association
- American Pipeline Contractors Association
- American Pyrotechnics Association
- Associated Equipment Distributors
- Distribution Contractors Association
- Livestock Exporters Association of the USA
- Lucas Oil Products
- Mid-West Truckers Association
- National Association of Chemical Distributors
- National Association of Small Trucking Companies
- National Aquaculture Association
- National Corn Growers Association
- National Cotton Council
- National Electrical Contractors Association
- National Federation of Independent Business
- National Grain and Feed Association
- National Ground Water Association
- National Hay Association
- National Motorists Association
- National Precast Concrete Association
- National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
- National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association
- New England Fuel Institute
- North American Wood Pole Council
- Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
- Petroleum Marketers Association of America
- Power & Communication Contractors Association
- Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
- SikhsPAC
- Southern Pressure Treaters’ Association
- United States Cattlemen’s Association
