BOL for personal property?

Your receipt from the auction will be all you need to prove its personal property. It's not a big deal really,.

 

i was told you can always carry personal property in your trailer, without a BOL

however, i "heard" that a flatbedder had a toy tonka truck strapped to an empty flatbed and DOT told him to remove it or he would get cited for not having a BOL

 

You had to be sitting at the counter of knowledge for that one!

 

I heard the same story but the DOT citied him for not having 4 straps on towing a vehicle

 

Don't know about the DOT, but I saw the Tonka and the trailer. That was Mondo Cool!! Got me smiling for the rest of the day on a not so good morning. Thanks, whoever you are out there.

 

Ahh the Tonka truck and DOT cop story....A gem.
I used to haul 4 offroad vehicles to an offroad park in Ar, from Mo, on my RGN. I stopped at a scale and asked an actual DOT officer the rules.
So long as you aren't getting paid, in a competition where you could win a prize, and so on, no log book or bills required. It's personal use, simple as that.
Mind, I did hear on the CB that a guy's 2 cousin three times removed got a ticket for......
Martin

 

^ that's pretty sweet. Guess whenever I run I to a questionable situation "I own this property just taking it to my other office" saweet!

 

Sometimes hauling your personal property can be hard to prove.I used to haul my farm equipment from Florida to North Carolina. Diesel Bear in N.C. stopped me, started asking how could I prove machinery was mine. I said I couldn't, but that it was. We went around for a while, he finally let me go, told me to always carry proof I owned the cargo if hauling my personal equipment. Still can't, some of that stuff was made in a machine shop 30 years ago, no paperwork.
Florida has also told me to have paperwork if I was hauling personal items under the agricultural exemption.

Sometimes you just can't please those bears.

 

I've seen that Tonka guy a bunch of times.