The Midwest Truckers Association says the Department of Transportation (DOT) is kicking the tires on a pilot program that could help improve supply chain bottlenecks.
Executive Director Don Schaefer tells Brownfield the program could allow truck drivers under 21 to cross state lines to move ag products. “To push this pilot program, has been a task that’s been tried for years and years and years but now when you start talking, we have a shortage of truck drivers anywhere from 60 to 80,000, it makes this issue even more important and it’s not for the ag industries but all across the board.”
Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota and more than 80 bipartisan House members have sent a letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg asking the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to implement the program.
