Thank You Very Much For Reasonable Decision
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
As someone who would have offered some very visceral observations on the state of things, should the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made a decision to impose commercial license requirements for farm equipment, I want to just as emphatically applaud the decision (made very quickly) to not go forward with the imposition of such controls. Through their August 10 news release, the agency announced that they weren’t going to bring farm equipment under their regulatory control.
By way of a more detailed explanation of the decision, William Bronrett, Deputy Administrator, clarified the agency’s point of view, as well as clearly articulating that they got the message from the input which was provided.
Earlier this week I had written of the concerns, following the August 1st, close of public input comments and shared the input that had been provided by both the American Farm Bureau Federation and Nevada Farm Bureau Federation. A day before the release of the announcement from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, I had been interviewed by the Nevada News Bureau, who restructured their news story to include the newly announced decision.
All in all, the decision to not regulate in this case is extremely welcomed – as is the prompt response made by the agency in coming to the conclusion they did. It’s worthy to note that the strong turn-out of input and consistency of opposition was also positive.
Thank you to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for the decision you’ve arrived at making.
As someone who would have offered some very visceral observations on the state of things, should the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made a decision to impose commercial license requirements for farm equipment, I want to just as emphatically applaud the decision (made very quickly) to not go forward with the imposition of such controls. Through their August 10 news release, the agency announced that they weren’t going to bring farm equipment under their regulatory control.
By way of a more detailed explanation of the decision, William Bronrett, Deputy Administrator, clarified the agency’s point of view, as well as clearly articulating that they got the message from the input which was provided.
Earlier this week I had written of the concerns, following the August 1st, close of public input comments and shared the input that had been provided by both the American Farm Bureau Federation and Nevada Farm Bureau Federation. A day before the release of the announcement from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, I had been interviewed by the Nevada News Bureau, who restructured their news story to include the newly announced decision.
All in all, the decision to not regulate in this case is extremely welcomed – as is the prompt response made by the agency in coming to the conclusion they did. It’s worthy to note that the strong turn-out of input and consistency of opposition was also positive.
Thank you to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for the decision you’ve arrived at making.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/10/2011 12:44 PM 
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Farm Equipment Government Regulations Highways Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Farm Equipment Government Regulations Highways Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Doug, Well there ya go. So much for your conspiracy theory.
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