The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) is petitioning the US Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) to include metals transport in its expanded national emergency declaration, which provides regulatory relief to commercial vehicle drivers amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
"ISRI is requesting emergency relief for the transportation of ferrous and non-ferrous metals as an essential item to be included in the national emergency declaration for commercial vehicles delivering relief in response to the Covid-19 outbreak," ISRI president Robin Wiener wrote in...