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Duffy's Pre-Secretary Trucking Bills Languished in Congress

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sponsored roughly 820 pieces of legislation during his nine years in Congress from 2011 to 2019, but his trucking-related proposals stalled in committee. Four bills addressing commercial driver regulations, hours-of-service exemptions for agricultural haulers, and heavier truck weights died after referral to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Analysis of the 118th and 119th Congresses identified 79 trucking-related bills among 36,608 total proposals introduced. Of those 79, only two represented housekeeping measures: the Veteran Improvement Commercial Driver License Act and the Strengthening the Commercial Driver's License Information System Act. The third high-profile trucking bill was a Congressional Review Act resolution targeting California's Advanced Clean Trucks emissions rules. The data suggests Congress directed its trucking legislative energy toward regulatory opposition rather than safety or enforcement improvements.