TRALA Scores 90-Day ELD Waiver for Short-Term Truck Rentals
FMCSA has granted a TRALA request to provide a 90-day waiver of the ELD rule to trucks rented for 30 days or less.
">A 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device mandate will soon be issued for carriers operating short-term rental trucks (defined as 30 days or less) by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The upshot is that these trucking operations will be exempt from the new rule until March 18, 2018 and firms that rent or trucks will have three more months in which to get their trucks in compliance with the ELD mandate.
The Truck Renting and Leasing Association announced on Dec. 12— less than a week before the ELD rule takes effect-- that FMCSA had agreed to grant the special 90-day exemption in a Dec. 8 letter to the association by Deputy Administrator Cathy Gautreaux. In her message, she noted that official notice of the waiver will be published in the Federal Register “as soon as practicable and will include the complete list of terms and conditions applicable to the waiver.”
In a news release, TRALA called the agency's action “welcome news to truck rental companies that have been spending the past few months trying to put together strategies and plans to address the fact that FMCSA only granted part of TRALA's original request for a five-year exemption for short-term rental trucks.”
Back on Oct. 24, FMCSA granted a waiver only for rentals of eight days or less— rather than the 30-day period sought by TRALA. The association said that left most of its members with “very little time to respond to ensure their customers continued to receive the best possible equipment and service designed to comply with the ELD rule set to take effect on December 18, 2017.”
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