Iowa briefly waives hours of service regs for gasoline haulers

Iowa is the most recent state to waive sure hours of service laws for gasoline haulers. Neighboring states South Dakota and Nebraska additionally just lately suspended HOS regs for some gasoline haulers.

Gov. Kim Reynolds on Oct. 28 signed a proclamation that briefly suspends hours of service laws for drivers hauling motor fuels together with, gasoline, diesel No. 1, diesel No. 2, ethanol, biodiesel, aviation gasoline, and jet gasoline. The order additionally permits these vans to be chubby, as much as 90,000 kilos, with out a allow.

The proclamation cites “in depth challenges to well timed entry to provides of motor fuels,” in addition to “lengthy wait instances at terminals” for gasoline haulers.

“Lengthy wait instances at petroleum product terminals, mixed with the necessity to truck motor fuels over lengthy distances, make it troublesome for transporters to fulfill demand and adjust to state and federal hours-of-service necessities,” the proclamation reads. It provides that the short-term suspension of hours-of-service laws within the state “will improve the quantity of those merchandise transported” in Iowa and scale back “the damaging results of this entry constraint.”