Farmers may need CDLs

That's fine if there's a mileage limitation for them toget out of paying heavy use tax but who's gonna check the odomoter on those trucks, it's just a loop hole. I know farmers are "supposed" to play by the same weight rules as everybody else but the local DOT here wont even stop them anymore because if he gives them a ticket they just take it to court and piss and moen infront the the judge and he feels sorry for them and throws it out. And as far as what will I haul if all farmer have to have commercial plates??? It doesn't really matter because there's already farmers cutting my rate to haul out of the elevator and all they have are farm plates on there trucks. I haven't got anything against farmers, but god ###### if I gotta play by the rules why dont they????????????????

 

Down here, we use the "off duty" driving school instructors to give the driving test. I kind of wondered if they give you a little extra trouble if you are testing without having gone through their school.

 

I agree with you about farm exemptions, but I think the way to level the field is to drop certain regulations on commercial haulers instead of increase regulation on farm tab haulers. The only people to win in the game of more regulations are the government people enforcing and the huge corporations who can afford to hire people full time to keep in compliance.

 

So which should they remove.

Drug testing?
Annual inspection?
Road use?
Insurance?
Proper training and testing(alright there is none of that now but there is supposed to be)?



If they are running commercial equipment they should fall under commercial rules. They are a business, no more no less a business.

 

check out California. Takes forever, then they screw up your license and it takes even longer to straighten it out.
I went back for my P endorsement. Took them a year to get my license straight and to me. They'd send out a new license, but dropped the doubles/triples. Then get that straight and my tanker endorsement was missing. Got that back and the P was missing.
No kidding. Oneyear!

 

EXACTLY!!!!! I couldn't have said it better myself.

Like I said before, I have nothing against the american farmer, I mean god bless them for what they do. But around here the farmers have nicer, newer and bigger equipment than the commercial haulers. I mean they haul for there neighbors, there friends & they even do custom hauling for some of the local elevators. So it's OK for them to do that because there farmers but because I'm joe blow with a truck and not a farmer I need a CDL & commercial plates?????? Where's the fairness in that??? Look at the grain prices the past few years, If farmers can afford to buy a newer pete and a set of wilson doubles then they can afford to pay a little more for there license plates. I wouldn't have such a problem with this but all I do is custom grain and feed hauling & when some farmer cuts into my hauling and he doesn't have a CDL or commercial plates or a health card or a logbook but yet I have to jump through all those hoops, Well.........................it pisses me off. Besides all the states and counties are looking for ways to get more money and by making farmers pay more and buy commercial plates theres just that much more money for local government, trust me the farmers can afford it.

 

its not for tractors its for the farmers that hire idiot 16 year old high school kids to run thier trucks out of the field if we have to have a cdl why dont they to operate a tractor trailer

 

I give the local vo-tech school here in town alot of credit, they have an agricultural program for wanna be farmers and one of the requirements to pass the course is you have to get your CDL, which I think is a great idea but I still say any farm vehicle bigger than a 3 axle straight truck needs to have commercial plates.

 

I can tell you right now, I live in a farming community and NONE of them will get a CDL and still let their kids run the combine, planter, plows and mowers...The cops don't break up the dog or chicken fighting, moonshining or pot growing, this won't even be a consideration...I was surprised when the farmers in Iowa had a chance to ask Chairman Maobama questions, this wasn't brought up...