Farm Special plates hauling commercial!!

Drive your truck and mind your own business.

 

Iowa or Arkansas. It happens all the time. I don't mean to sound mean or uncaring. I understand your position. The best thing you can ever do is just worry about you. Your trucks and not fixate on things that ain't right. In time it will work itself out. If the co-op knows that means he has friends in the right place. Much friction and all you have done is rub yourself out of a job.

 

Thats trucking.

Nothing is fair. Work hard, pay your bills, raise your family right and die anyway.

Hurst

 

At the risk of upsetting some here but guys like that are who drive rates down for everybody. Out here in Kansas it goes on too and some have been caught but not nearly all of them. Farm tags are a joke anyway, does the hardware store owner get Small Business tags? I think legislators need to view farming for the industry it is now and not Ma and Pa with 2 cows and 40 acres.

 

I will really upset some of them, I filed a complaint against a farm down the road from me, he knows I did that and we already had words. He just bought 5 more trucks to run general freight under farm tags. Ran into one of his new drivers at the pilot down the road and he spilled the beans about it. I view this as a threat to my business.

 

So tell us who did you report them too? Did the good guys immediately fly in there and shut them down and fine them really really big?

 

I can understand the frustration. That being said, they understand the loophole and are exploiting to the extent. Sucks but its not just in trucking.

 

The state IRP office, they directed me to the state police carrier enforcement and they are investigating.

Yeah I get that but with 10 trucks on the road throughout the year and only the time that they use 3 of them is for harvest, it is abuse of the loop hole which isn't right. I know this sounds like a crybaby but crap 7 trucks that are being used to haul sub-dollar freight because of low overhead, being passed on inspections and low insurance, come on guys, some of you complain about HOS, cheap freight and other things but then let this go?

 

What most don't understand is they have to have 25 to 50k in cargo depending on who the broker is and who bought the grain being shipped. Unless you are a certificate holder listed on their policy you can't possibly know how they are insured. About 2 grand a year is all a farm plate saves you hauling for others.