Transportation Safety Regulations via the Electronic Logging Device Mandate Can Affect Fresh Produce Shipment Costs

Tara Wade, Shellye Suttles and Lurleen Walters

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2021, vol. 36, issue 3

Abstract: The Electronic Logging Device Mandate was signed into law in 2012 with the hope that it would improve transportation safety by electronically monitoring commercial drivers. Agricultural transportation, however, was exempt from the mandate until 2019. We find that compliance with the mandate will increase shipment costs and transportation times for fresh produce.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312407

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