Not For Hire?

Private carrier or personal vehicle that is not licensed to carry freight.

 

Saw one that had that on it pulling a enclosed car carrier. They were telling me about all of the different loads they pickup and deliver. Been seeing more of these.

Makes me wonder if they are just hiding under the radar.

 

A private carrier still needs dot #s, except for some rather gray exemptions in the "hobby" realm, and the # needs to be posted. A private carrier doesn't need operating authority and hence, an MC #. I am a private carrier, and I have never seen anything requiring "not for hire" to be posted on my truck. I think its a holdover from back in the day--used to see it a lot. My friend pulls his RV with a shaker classic bobbed to one axle and registered as an "RV." He put "not for hire" on it, but when I asked why, he could only answer he did it because he thought he wqas supposed to.

 

Yes, they are trying to avoid consortium membership, and new entrant safety audits, and HOS records, and driver qualification files, and so on and so on.

 

More than likely, the high cost of the insurance and logbooks. They probably have no clue as to the above.

 

Great explanation

Another example of "not for hire" would be a construction company that owns a semi truck and trailer to move its own equipment from job site to site. They aren't allowed to move anybody elses equipment for money. if they did, then they would be "for hire"

I always get a tickle when I see the RV folks who put not for hire on the side of their rigs.

 

Being a private carrier doesn't excuse me from HOS. Aside from not needing mc authority, evrything is the same. I just can't charge money to drive stuff around; it has to be my stuff. All the rules still apply. DOT #s properly displayed, lots of records, pee tests and DMV records, all of it.