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Old 10.20.2009
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Doubles for farm/ranch

We have a ranch in Eastern Oregon. A lot of the harvest work is contracted out, including the sets of doubles we use to ferry the grain to the elevators. If I were to purchase some doubles, would I need to establish a trucking company, complete the logs, etc, or would having trucking insurance and being able to pass a DOT inspection be enough?
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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.
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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.

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(f) Restricted CDL for certain drivers in farm-related service industries. (1) A State may, at its discretion, waive the required knowledge and skills tests of subpart H of this part and issue restricted CDLs to employees of these designated farm-related service industries:
(f)(1)(i) Agri-chemical businesses;
(f)(1)(ii) Custom harvesters;
(f)(1)(iii) Farm retail outlets and suppliers;
(f)(1)(iv) Livestock feeders.
Farmers are excepted from the medical requirement provided they avoid articulated vehicles:

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§391.67 Farm vehicle drivers of articulated commercial motor vehicles.
The following rules in this part do not apply to a farm vehicle driver (as defined in [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. of this subchapter) who is 18 years of age or older and who drives an articulated commercial motor vehicle:
(a) [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , and (b)( (relating to general qualifications of drivers);
(b) Subpart C (relating to disclosure of, investigation into, and inquiries about the background, character, and driving record of drivers);
(c) Subpart D (relating to road tests); and
(d) Subpart F (relating to maintenance of files and records).
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dot numbers are free though
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