After ELDs hit ~99% compliance, FMCSA asked how to change HOS — especially ag. That comment round is the ancestor of 2020, not a 2026 pilot

What the notice actually said

After ELDs hit nearly 99 percent compliance, FMCSA asked how to change hours of service. Electronic logs made certain rules — agriculture among them — bite harder. That is the ANPRM in one line.

Congressional ELD mandate first. Then the industry could see exactly where Part 395 pinched. An Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is how an agency asks before it rewrites. It is not a 14-hour holiday.

Public comment, then the 2020 four-part final rule: break, sleeper, adverse, short-haul. The 2025 pilots are a later, separate study. Do not quote this 2018 ask as “HOS is optional while they think.”

This comment round is the ancestor of 2020, not a 2026 pilot. Today’s log is still the 2020 rule unless you are actually enrolled in a study.

Agriculture was a named pain point. The 2020 rule’s four parts apply more broadly than ag. Read that page before you treat this ANPRM as a dry-van exemption.

What it changes on Monday

Today we run 2020 hours of service on Motive. Pilots are opt-in studies. 2020 rule and the 2026 pre-test.

Appointments still have to fit the clock. Deferred loading is the product when the window cannot be made legal — not an ANPRM caption.

That docket closed. This page is history with a Monday use: stop a broker who quotes 2018 as if the clock is optional.

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What we will — and will not — do

We will run 2020 HOS. We will not treat a 2018 comment round as a holiday, and we will not mash it into the 2025 pilots.

We will not sell “they’re thinking about hours” as a service. The legal log is the legal log until you are in a real pilot.

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