Hopper bottom trucking on farm tags

the boat?

 

You would be suprised. One of the bigger dairy farms up where i live goes through 2 or 3 trucks a day in feed easy. 1000 cows eating 20 to 100 pounds a day depending on what they are fed and size adds up fast. Then there are feed lots and all kinds of other industrys. Cows aint sitting there just eating a pound or two like a human. And commercial ops typically have thousands of the critters crammed into spaces the size of a truckstop. So no forageing.

I think the biggest farms have something like 20k cows. 20k cows eating lets be conservitive and say 25 pounds a day in feed, times 20k cows equals around 500k pounds of feed or 10 trucks a DAY to feed minimum and as much as 50 a day. Even 1k cows your looking at a truck every other day at minimum or 2 trucks a day at max.

Granted a lot of farmers also have acers to feed the critters and feed lots are an extreme example but critters go through a LOT of kibble.

 

I don't see where "here" is, but in Wisconsin, a truck carrying feed is considered a motorized feed wagon. Same with manure, and no special drivers license or plate is required. I think there is a distance requirement, as most those trucks at the feed mill aren't going very far. Arctic_fox is pretty spot on. I don't know about 20K cows, that's a bit much, but in Wis. a couple thousand is not unusual. Many small mom & pop farms are being bought by these "mega" farms, just to get rid of the waste. Oh, we never hear about THAT,,,do we. Mega farms generate a S load of crap. Olympic size manure pools have to be drained daily. Disgusting. There too, some heavy loads of manure, operated by Slim the farm hand, with unmaintained equipment is a loophole that should be closed.

 

NC rule for farm vehicles;
per site;haulingAgManual.pdf (ncagromedicine.org)

e n e ral R u l e Operators of vehicles with a gross combined vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 26,001 pounds or more; operators of vehicles designed to carry 16 or more passengers, including the driver; and operators of vehicles hauling placardable quantities of hazardous materials are required to have a commercial driver’s license (CDL). (N.C.G.S 20-37.12) A gri c u l t ural Ex empt i o n An operator of a farm vehicle is exempt from CDL requirements if the vehicle he or she is operating meets all of the following four criteria: (N.C.G.S. 20-37.16(e)) 1) It is controlled and operated by the farmer or the farmer’s employee and is used exclusively for farm business; 2) It is used to transport either agricultural products, farm machinery or farm supplies to or from a farm; 3) It is not being used for hire (remember that “for hire” is interpreted by Motor Carrier Enforcement as including work done for a neighbor if the farmer receives anything of value in return) 4) It is used within 150 miles of the farmer’s farm.

 

Know a bunch here that does work on Farm tags, some do it right, helping the other nearby farmers for “trade off”
(You help me haul mine off to market, I’ll help haul yours)

Some run into MO(which doesn’t honor AR Farm tags for hire, they don’t get caught, Cabool catches most