AGRICULTURE HAULING EXEMPTIONS
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by turboguy, Mar 8, 2018.
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It would be helpful if the op told us what state they run in. Missouri considers harvest year round. Iowa just changed to harvest year round because of this rule.
I haul ingredients for the largest pork producer in the world but the mill is part of the farm..which is owned by another American company and that company is owned by a China company.
Confusing huh.....as long as the plant is a farm and your in harvest season in your state you should be good until you run into the officer that doesn't understand it.
The states are putting out alot of guidance to the officers for this and eld enforcement. Don't ask me how I know. -
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All of these exemptions just goes to show you that the HOS have zero to do with safety. I mean, does a farm hauler not get tired just like somebody hauling electronics? Evidently not, according to the DOT.
CDL exemptions are the same way. Without a CDL, people hauling goods would kill everybody on the road, but people hauling farm goods or motor homes are perfectly safe without it.
In TN, you can put a 16 year old to hauling grain, hop him up on enough drugs to where he can run 20 hrs a day, and still be within the law.Paddlewagon and TallJoe Thank this. -
FWIW, those HOS exempt AG haulers, according to FMCSA, have lower accident rates than drivers subject to HOS.
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The way HOS are structured, it encourages drivers to drive tired. Instead of a driver driving when he or she is rested, they are encouraged to drive whenever they have hours, regardless of how they feel. I don't know of anybody that has "normal" sleep patterns that coincides with current HOS. I have no doubt in my mind that most drivers would be safer with no HOS. -
thanks guys for all the responses so I called the highway patrol to get some clarification for my situation
and guess what?
they created their own laws that apparently supersede the federal HOS exemption
so you get 12 hours a day driving time only if you are picking up a commodity that has NOT been processed yet within 150 miles of the farm location
since the commodity that I would be transporting has already been processed "in boxes" I cant even take advantage of this HOS rule -
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