NGFA要求为AG搬运工提供服务时间

资料来源：国家粮食和饲料协会

在一个信件向联邦机动载体安全管理局（FMCSA），国家粮食和饲料协会（NGFA）和53个其他农业团体敦促该机构从联邦驾驶时间规则扣除所有卡车司机拖运农产品。

“由于货运能力和司机的可用性因Covid-19而收紧，潮流或正常的货运能力可能是充分利用的，以便为动物饲养行动，食品加工和制造厂，分销设施提供所需的立即交货，团体表示，出口设施和零售店可能导致大量食品连锁供应中断。“

原子能机构以前签发了Covid-19的紧急宣言，但只豁免了司机，将食物提供给分销和零售设施，从遵守联邦服务时间规则，限制在4月12日最早的开车时间。该机构明确包括畜牧业豁免。However, today’s letter notes that FMCSA’s previous action “was insufficient to adequately encompass the major beginning and middle segments of the food and agricultural supply chain….Each sector of that chain is linked, and when one segment is affected adversely, the ripple effects extend throughout the supply chain.”

为了解决加强货运能力和卡车运输中断，群体敦促FMCSA“扩大并延长来自农场到叉子的服务时间救济。”

NGFA和其他团体表示，应扩展紧急宣言，包括卡车运输：原料和加工农产品，动物食品和饲料成分，加工食品和食品成分，蜜蜂和农场供应（如种子，肥料和其他农业产品s and chemicals needed by farmers to grow crops) “to adequately preserve the resiliency of our nation’s food supply during the pandemic.”

美国国土安全部（DHS）最近确定了完整的粮食和农业供应链，作为必要的关键基础设施工人，该工人有一个特殊的责任继续运作，这封信指出。

”连锁业务在食品和农业密切相关和继续操作需要及时的运输和接收…我们敦促FMCSA延长服务时间救济包括所有食品和农业关键基础设施操作确保食品分配系统的生存能力,”组。

The groups also requested that FMCSA add flexibility to the process for obtaining new restricted agricultural commercial driver’s licenses, assist in keeping truck washouts open that are necessary for the sanitary transportation of many food products, and provide leadership in harmonizing the temporary increases in truck weight limits that have been announced by several states.