Registration for Intrastate Hopper bottom trucking

The fore mentioned carrier that has the loads your wanting to haul.. Are they just giving you those loads or they acting as a broker ?

 

You probably need a South Dakota public carrier registration or whatever they call it
I am pretty much the same type of operation in Illinois and that’s how it works for me.
You might find that you need a dot number for some things like permits and insurance purposes idk if your looking at doing anything that would need permits
if you get a dot registered as intrastate they pretty much leave you alone and there’s not much up keep or oversight or at least that’s my experience
I started with a tandem dump truck hauling gravel or really anything that could fit and dump out now I move quite a bit of local osow equipment

 

Well this is just my opinion.. and you get get what you pay for with free advice.. but here in Iowa...it would be the same as what you stated .. IF.. your gonna run Ag Exmept.. I question what would happen if you had a accident or if there was a audit.. what about cargo insurance do you have that ?
I would think that company that is going to dispatch you would be able to answer your question
In my opinion the dispatching fee puts you in a gray area.. but Iam not a lawyer .. Iam way better at breaking the laws than abiding them
Hopefully someone else will chime in maybe @Long FLD can weigh in

 

I am not the smartest about rules and regulations but I highly doubt your going to be ag exempt from anything if your hauling for some else.
In Illinois you can’t use farm plates for what you want to do you need some type of commercial plate we have a mileage limit plate here that generally works well for me and if you run mechanical trucks and are a little clever it can be stretched a little I am not recommending that but….
I don’t know where to tell you to find the information but I agree that whoever your working with should know. I wouldn’t think you would need logs. Thinking about it you might need a dot number depending on where your delivering to. We need one for rain yards and river terminals but not for other places. You may be able to get out of cargo insurance but make sure you can take care of it if something happens and your probably ok on liability…but don’t take my word for it.

 

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