Doubles for farm/ranch

this is exempt farm use, and you need to check with the CDL manual in your state, because a lot of this will be state law, and not federal law, because you most likely will not be transporting in/out of the state, right? If you are going to be interstate, you won't be exempt..

Here in michigan, you need a special endorsement on your personal license to drive such equipment, an F endorsement. It allows you to drive anything, even semis, ...for the harvest season only, and within a 100ish air mile radius....

you'll still need commercial auto insurance which is going to rip you off big time, and you only have to pass dot inspection if you go through scales LOL LOL.

 

A few years ago when they started the Unified Carrier Registration program an old interpretation regarding farmers taking grain to the elevator was drug out of moth balls which required farmers to obtain a US DOT number.

In short, if a farmer transports grain from the field to a cooperative's silo for sale the move is interstate commerce as some of the grain is bound to be sold outside the state; therefore, the farmer must obtain a US DOT number.

Farmers are exempt from a CDL provided their state allows it. In Illinois the farmers must run farm plates and have farmer's driver's license.

Co-operative drivers may obtain a limited Class B.

Farmers are excepted from the medical requirement provided they avoid articulated vehicles:

Be safe.

 

dot numbers are free though