Farm trucks must obtain Federal ID

Sheila Harsdorf web sight ^ | September 2, 2005 | Sheila Harsdorf

[quietolong]

September 2, 2005

Treating A Farm Truck Like An 18-Wheeler
by Senator Sheila Harsdorf

Wisconsin farmers are letting it be known that a new administrative rule requiring a federal ID number for farm trucks hauling personal property is burdensome.

In fact, the rule means that any farm truck hauling livestock or a trailer is violating the law and subject to fines if they don’t have a USDOT number. These are the same regulations required of semi-trucks.

It’s excessive and catching farmers by surprise. Not only do they need the ID number, but they have to have safety features required of 18-wheelers, including flares and fire extinguishers!

Throughout Wisconsin, farmers are getting tagged with tickets for violating this law.

To avoid these tickets, farmers must obtain a USDOT number. To do so, one must complete an application for a USDOT number online at:
www.usdotnumberregistration.com, call 1-800-832-5660 to have the form sent to you, or obtain a paper copy of the Federal application form MCS150 and mail it to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Unfortunately, federal processing takes upwards of six weeks if done on paper format. The numbers are free, but credit cards are required for identification purposes if registering online.

While this new regulation is costing farmers additional time and expense, a group of lawmakers have authored legislation to repeal this requirement on farm trucks in Wisconsin. As the Senate lead of this bill, I support exempting farm trucks and trailers from the newly imposed requirement.

Creating a reasonable exemption that doesn’t treat farmers like professional semi-truck drivers driving 18-wheelers must go through the legislative process, including public hearings.

In the meantime, I’d like to know about your experiences with this new regulation. Please call me at 1-800-862-1092 or email me at Sen.Harsdorf@legis.state.wi.us to offer your valuable input.

[Hank Rearden]

"We" also typically post when sober.

[Echo Talon]

"We" also typically post when sober.

Haven't touched alcohol in about 10 years.

[Echo Talon]

"We" are Americans who love liberty and who think the Constitution should be respected, not ignored.

Could you please refer me to the part in the Constitution that says anything about Motor Vehicles. Believe driving is privilege NOT a right...

[quietolong]

Wow I feel so much safer with more bureaucracy in place. /s

Hate to tell you this but the un-Patriot act. will not do one darn thing to stop things like that.

Instead of call people names. take some time to find out what happend.
Field personnel all over the US were pounding there heads on the bureaucracy wall in place.
What was done? Make the bureaucracy bigger. WOW!

9-11 Was not a surprise There were plenty of FBI and other field people out there that had the information.

So are you trying to promote the “Mark of the Beast” or do you Work for the government or just that foolish.

[familyop]

" Maybe you think anyone should have access to say "certain chemicals" and equipment? liberty right?"

If you want to continue to eat without depending on foreign nationals for that, people should be allowed to produce fertilizer without being coerced into licensing their chickens (or federally licensing small trucks to haul them).

Before the current social program madness got out of hand, people didn't murder lots of other people with crude demolition devices. That's because most of us agreed that morality was important.

I'm very much not a Libertarian. Who wants a nation administered by contracts, lawsuits and ruled by those among our less trustworthy corporates and lawyers? But it is very foolish for our "elite" to be legislating or ordering laws or regulations to attempt to monitor so many daily activities of citizens in the pursuit of absolute safety. And it certainly is a reaction that we'd expect from cowardly, socialist despots.

[endthematrix]

Again back to the topic...

"the rule means that any farm truck hauling livestock or a trailer is violating the law and subject to fines if they don’t have a USDOT number. These are the same regulations required of semi-trucks."

"It’s excessive..."

Must...comply...with...Federal Safety Regulations.

EchoT, you have a backwards understanding of the Constitution.

About Free Republic

[SpaceBar]

Over the last decades and under the guise of the combined wars on terror, crime, drugs, poverty, obesity, homelessness, secondhand smoke, road fatalities, tooth decay, and litter, the US Federal government has encroached, insinuated, maneuvered, litigated, bullied, and intimidated itself into every single aspect of American life without exception. George Orwell was only off by about twenty years.

[Echo Talon]

EchoT, you have a backwards understanding of the Constitution.

How is this Unconstitutional?

[endthematrix]

Now I know didn't speed read that link.

[Echo Talon]

I have read it before. I know losertarians are here... Not sure why, they have some other forum. Liberty(something)

[familyop]

"That was a picture of the OKC bombing... Maybe you think anyone and everyone should have access to Ammonium nitrate?"

Why no, of course not. Only official members of authorized fascist (that is, socialist) parties should be allowed to raise chickens. It's the only way that we can end all violence and crime and shut up domineering, political witches and their metrosexual mouthpieces.

[...little sarcasm and irony there.]

But it's not the proper Republican Party way, and that's apparently why Republican Senator Harsdorf is against such idiotic regulations against farmers.

[quietolong]

WOW! I have a yard full of terrorist equipment.

I’ll bet you just loved the going door to door down in NO

[Echo Talon]

I’ll bet you just loved the going door to door down in NO

Lost in Translation...

[Echo Talon]

Everyone else gets regulated why not farmers?

[quietolong]

LOL I’m not surprised It does go with my #8 But I’m sure the true FReepers got it.

[quietolong]

See the Amish oppose animal ID link on #1

[Echo Talon]

Yea, the first amendment is really taking a beating isn't it? Cindy who?

[Fraxinus]

A few things about those DOT numbers. They are required on all Commercial vehicles over 10,000lbs GCVW. Thus my employer has a DOT number on a pickup (7,500lbs) that often tows a trailer (5,000lbs).

In MD there is an exception for vehicles that go less than 100 miles from home and do not cross state lines (I think I remember). However the MD regulations are very similar to Federal standards. This is also the extent of my knowledge of this beyond that a vehicle with farm tags is regulated differently from those with commercial tags.

I also know that there are a number of people driving trucks with a registered weight of 15,000lbs without DOT numbers, since many of these vehicle do not appear that clearly to be that much heavier than a one ton truck. Think F-250 versus F-450.

[endthematrix]

You are correct. Also vehicles that are designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers, including the driver, for compensation; or designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers, including the driver, whether or not it is used to transport passengers for compensation; or used in transporting material found by the Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous.