Farmers may need CDLs

Well you would be dead wrong but hey whatever makes you feel better. I'm sure you wouldn't count chasing silage and baylage choppers as farm experience. Probably not cow pots or open trailers for beefers, springers, fresh either. Driving feed wagons in reverse more than forward because your grand father never comprehended milking 1000 head when they bult the first barns huh. Your right no idea what farming is about. Never spent time under the tree row...... Well never mind that doesn't count now does it?

Simple fact is farmers are hauling dangerous loads and equipment down public roads. It is not an assualt on the family farm as you claim to make them follow the exact same laws everyone else on the public road does. Nor is it unreasonable for them to run on road diesel when they are running up and down the highway in highway trucks.

They are not special nor exempt from societies rules and costs. To often they will use exemptions for their off road ooperations to operate on road during off times.

 

Just another guv'mint power grab.

 

And your free to hold onto, work, harvest whatever you heart desires on your land.

Operating your business (that is what farming is in the long run) on a public road you should have no special treatment from any other business.

Like I said work your kids however you want on your land. Follow whatever rules you wish on your land. Once your business moves onto a public roadway I see no reason for some special protection from the laws every other business conducted along that road must follow.




Yes I know farmers want exemptions, bull haulers want weight exemptions, so do tanker yankers, everybody thinks they should be given special consideration for their piety. No dice. Farming is a for profit enterprise same as trucking.




Now I do support and wish you well working and defending your land. Sometime I'll tell you why I no longer milk, or have cows. I still hold my land, and I will be burned on it so I get the sentiment.

 

Uh-oh. There goes the Collectivist Libertarian again. He has no idea what philosophy to follow, but it seems to me, reading more and more of his dreck, he needs to publicly align himself with the people who believe as he does: hard-line Socialists and outright Communists.

The guv'mint will set you free, right, Tazz?



Farmers already pay their share. I, for one, don't feel like paying the higher prices on food that will be the inevitable result of raising operating costs to farmers.

 

Wonder if they have a JD endorsement if I go home to help my dad plant wheat?

 

There are commercial carriers running around with little or no insurance also, but that's another story.

 

I'd be interested in seeing how many injury accidents there are involving underage or under licensed farm machinery operators and the general public.
I'll bet the number is next to zilch.
The few cases of people driving general freight without a cdl are so miniscule, it isn't worth the effort to THINK about it.
Better we concentrate our efforts on trucks coming up from down south with underlicensed, underinsured operators, and unable to pass a simple DOT inspection