{"id":511083,"date":"2023-01-14T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=511083"},"modified":"2023-01-14T03:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:43:02","slug":"brian-mast-offers-proposal-to-help-the-supply-chain-by-cutting-red-tape-for-truckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/brian-mast-offers-proposal-to-help-the-supply-chain-by-cutting-red-tape-for-truckers","title":{"rendered":"Brian Mast Offers Proposal to Help the Supply Chain by Cutting Red Tape for Truckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., brought out the &#8220;Ceasing Age-Based (CAB) Trucking Restrictions Act.&#8221;Mast insisted the bill will &#8220;eliminate unnecessary restrictions to allow more truckers to keep the supply chain moving&#8221; and &#8220;is a step towards fulfilling the commitment to America made by the House of Representatives&#8217; Republican majority: to strengthen the supply chain and build an economy that&#8217;s strong.&#8221;The congressman&#8217;s office offered some of the details on the proposal.&#8220;While many states allow truckers between the ages of 18 to 20 to transport goods within the state, any transportation across the state boundaries &#8211; or interstate transportation &#8211; requires that the trucker is at least 21 years old per federal law. Under current law, picking up goods from a port is interpreted as interstate transportation even if the port is located in the same state as the distribution center or the final destination. This precludes 18 to 20-year-olds from transporting cargo coming off of ships at overloaded ports,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., brought out the &#8220;Ceasing Age-Based (CAB) Trucking Restrictions Act.&#8221;. Mast insisted the bill will &#8220;eliminate unnecessary restrictions to allow more truckers to keep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}