A new federal database listing drug and alcohol violations by long-haul truck drivers won’t likely impact most individual cattle producers moving animals to market, but producers and owner-operators transporting larger volumes of cattle and other ag commodities longer distances could be affected.

Most producers ship their calves before October, according to a Progressive Cattle online poll.

There is a step in between weaning and payday that can make a difference in our product. I’m sure you can recall seeing trailers with various issues over the years. When loading out after a sale once, I loaded a heifer onto a buyer’s bumper pull trailer.

Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) and Jon Tester (D-Montana), along with 17 other co-sponsors from both parties, introduced the “Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act,” a bipartisan approach to giving livestock haulers some relief from the hours-of-service rules and the electronic logging devices (ELD) mandate that poses a problem for transporting livestock effectively and humanely.