This is not your typical bail out, but it is a “bale out” designed to help parts of Texas and Oklahoma get through one of the worst single-year droughts in recorded history. Truckers, farmers and a growing community from far and wide are pitching in to help ranchers who are out of feed for their livestock and horses because of the ongoing extreme drought and widespread wildfires. The Indiana Motor Truck Association announced that seven flatbeds from among its members would be loaded with hay donated by Indiana farmers and shipped to needed areas. Those trucks are scheduled to convoy to Terrell, TX, on Thursday, Oct. 13, where the hay will be distributed. Farmers and truckers from Tennessee chipped in the past few weeks to help Oklahoma ranchers with hay, and loads continued to arrive from Wisconsin, Alabama and other states that yielded enough to share. Agricultural losses in the Lone Star State have already topped $5 billion according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service. On Oct. 1, Texas Gov. Rick Perry renewed a previous disaster proclamation which suspends certain trucking restrictions related to hay transport. The Texas Department of Agriculture is doing its best to connect those who have hay with those who do not. Other states have temporarily lifted permit requirements to assist in the effort, as well. Alabama, for example, issued special hay-hauling permits to deliver feed to Texas. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin recently extended an executive order that lifts permit requirements for hay haulers...
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It's great to see the voluntary cooperation and assistance and praise to those who are participating.
Usually a disaster declaration means more government involvement, but in this case it means less. Let's see those trucking restrictions lifted permanently.
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