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House panel advances bill prohibiting truckers’ meal, rest breaks by states

Funding measure provides $17.8 billion for DOT in fiscal 2018

A House subcommittee advanced a Department of Transportation funding bill that includes a provision blocking states from implementing their own meal and rest breaks for truckers.

However, during a brief hearing on July 11, Rep. David Price (D-NC), ranking member of the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development, said while he was not yet offering any amendments, the bill faces “many hurdles to get bipartisan support.”

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Trucker and farmer dinged for deadstock disposal

SARNIA, ON--A trucking company based in the nearby village of Arkona along with a farmer from Wyoming, ON., pleaded guilty and were each fined $2,500 for violating a provincial law that regulates the disposal of deadstock. On June 9, 2017, Ontario Business Corporation 1342823; otherwise known as Ernie Herrington Excavating, Trucking and Sanitation Ltd., of Arkona, and Mike Huybers of Wyoming pleaded guilty in the Sarnia Provincial Offences Court to one charge each of violating Ontario Regulation 105/09 (Disposal of Deadstock) under the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2001. ...Read the rest of this story