The National Aquaculture Association worked with an Agriculture Transportation Coalition to oppose regulations focused on limiting the speed drivers of commercial motor vehicles could choose while traveling federal highways. To provide regulatory relief and flexibility, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a variety of actions is to remove burdensome regulations and provide drivers with more control over their operations.

• Withdrawal of Speed Limiter Rulemaking: FMCSA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are withdrawing a joint rulemaking that proposed to require speed-limiting devices on heavy vehicles. This decision respects the professionalism of drivers and acknowledges the proposed rulemaking lacked a sufficiently clear and compelling safety justification.
• Deregulatory Initiative: FMCSA’s deregulatory initiative is slashing red tape and eliminating burdensome regulations, which generated nearly 25,000 unnecessary violations in 2024. The proposed actions eliminate over 1,800 words from federal regulations and are estimated to save the motor carrier industry millions annually.
• ELD Exemption Maintained: The Department of Transportation Secretary is committed to not extending the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate to pre-2000 model year trucks.

 To read or download a summary of the agency’s actions, click here.