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Farm trucks must obtain Federal ID
Sheila Harsdorf web sight ^ | September 2, 2005 | Sheila Harsdorf

Posted on 09/22/2005 12:15:17 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: farm
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To: quietolong
This is more proof of exactly what I predicted in 2002.

Because the federal government will not control who enters the United States, it must turn itself into Big Brother and watch everyone as if we are all felons in a prison yard. The feds have to turn America into a police state because they have let the terrorists into our midst.

One of these days soon we will have to take back our country from the irresponsible morons running it...or lose freedom forever.

41 posted on 09/22/2005 2:37:05 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: Hank Rearden
"We" are Americans who are sick of lying, greedy, power-mad politician weasels. "We" are Americans who love liberty and who think the Constitution should be respected, not ignored.
"We" are freedom lovers, not politician-worshippers.

I go along with you on this

42 posted on 09/22/2005 3:09:16 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: 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."

Excellent post. Our government is almost completely tyrannical now, and too many people don't see it...

My pilgrim ancesters hopped a boat for the New World to escape this garbage. They didn't care that it was a nearly barren wilderness, months away from any civilization, populated with "savages."

But there's no place for us to escape to now. Breaks my heart.


43 posted on 09/22/2005 3:22:26 AM PDT by ladyrustic
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To: flashbunny
meanwhile, the feds do next to nothing to stop the flow of illegal aliens and criminals over our borders.

Well, at least the trucks they drive (or ride in) will be properly registered. That's almost as good.

44 posted on 09/22/2005 3:26:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Echo Talon
OH, you mean you losertarians... How is that working out for ya? :) maybe you want to see more pictures of this

Thank you for raising the bar on irrelevant posts and showing a level of understanding of how government keeps us safe unmatched by anyone except for hard core DU posters.

45 posted on 09/22/2005 3:27:27 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: Fraxinus

Okay, maybe you can help me understand this. Somehow the DOT has asserted control over trucks that are not involved in interstate commerce. No real surprise. That said, how does a state legislature go about exempting trucks in its own state? Does the federal enabling legislation have an opt-in or opt-out for individual states?


46 posted on 09/22/2005 3:35:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Hank Rearden

Stupid infiltrated both parties. So don't blame Repub's


47 posted on 09/22/2005 3:50:51 AM PDT by MEpajamaMONSTER (Loose lips sink ships, so do torpedo's)
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To: Echo Talon

Like I said before "Stupid" Infiltrates just look in the mirror when you say certain things!


48 posted on 09/22/2005 3:54:11 AM PDT by MEpajamaMONSTER (Loose lips sink ships, so do torpedo's)
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To: from occupied ga
here
49 posted on 09/22/2005 4:33:32 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: quietolong
Farmers can obtain necessary USDOT number by contacting Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
April 13, 2005
To help ensure the safety of large trucks on roadways, most commercial motor vehicles-including those used in agricultural operations for transporting livestock and produce-must have a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) identification number, according to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.....

Federal identification number needed for commercial motor vehicles used in agriculture in WI

It appears that this notification is almost 6 months old. I wonder if there was a "grace" period, that is now over and they are now enforcing the law. I am wondering if the "USDOT" requirement on vehicles is actually part of the 1994 changes to commercial trucking regulations, that were done under Clinton. An exemption would be given to vehicles if the state, that they were registered in, also had a State DOT registration, I don't think that WI has a program like that.

Also I think, that many states, farm vehicle exemption regulations are based on the understanding that the vehicles would be used on rural roads that separated a farmer's fields, to get from one field to another. Not to be used on Interstate highways

Also many may not be aware, that in WI, vehicle insurance is not required by the state. Something to think about, if you have an accident with someone, who drives a vehicle register in WI

50 posted on 09/22/2005 4:38:14 AM PDT by rerat0120
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To: Echo Talon

I decline to click on your link, since it undoubtedly is either insulting or simply shows more of your lack of understanding of freedom


51 posted on 09/22/2005 4:58:34 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: quietolong

marked


52 posted on 09/22/2005 5:03:46 AM PDT by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: from occupied ga

No matter how far you stick your
fingers in your ears we still have
to fight terrorism. Just be careful
where you put your thumb...
53 posted on 09/22/2005 6:14:52 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: from occupied ga
p.s your name "from occupied ga" maybe you and "Cindy" would get along great...
54 posted on 09/22/2005 6:16:18 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Echo Talon
No matter how far you stick your fingers in your ears we still have to fight terrorism.

Nice graphic, but like your prior graphics, irrelevant. The government's taking away freedom from law abiding citizens doesn't fight terrorism. In fact, it nurtures it. McVeigh's bombing of the fed building was a direct result of the FBI and ATF's SS style assault on the Branch Davidians.

55 posted on 09/22/2005 6:20:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: Echo Talon
"Cindy" would get along great...

Who's Cindy?, Your wife?

56 posted on 09/22/2005 6:21:22 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: Echo Talon
Could you please refer me to the part in the Constitution that says anything about Motor Vehicles. Believe driving is privilege NOT a right...

Granted, the U.S. Constitution does not discuss motor vehicles or other conveyances, nor does it establish a "right" to drive. However, the powers of the Federal government are delineated in Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution. None of the powers authorized include the authority to regulate motor vehicles, including farm equipment. That is the proper jurisdiction of state governments. Additionally, the Tenth Amendment states that those powers not granted to the Federal government are reserved to the states and the people.

If American conservatism has any meaning, it must be found in adherence to the doctrine of original intent of the U.S. Constitution. The original intent of the framers of that document is well documented in The Federalist Papers and elsewhere. Unless you subscribe to the liberal doctrines of treating the "interstate commerce" clause of the Constitution as a "wax nose" adjustable to justify any and all economic interventions (the original intent was to prevent the states from establishing barriers for interstate free trade) and considering the Constitution a "living document" subject to re-interpretation to suit current political whims, there is no justification for Federal regulation of motor vehicles of any sort, except in the District of Columbia and Federally owned lands.

57 posted on 09/22/2005 6:32:12 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Echo Talon
Huh, and who is we? And IBTZ! :D

I'm not much on the ZOT, think the trigger gets pulled too quick in most cases, but if there ever was a candidate, it's you! Let's see if you make it through the day. They're holding your place in line over at the DU. Blackbird.

58 posted on 09/22/2005 6:34:14 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST
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To: flashbunny

"meanwhile, the feds do next to nothing to stop the flow of illegal aliens and criminals over our borders."

That's because the new rules are aimed at American citizens and controlling them.


59 posted on 09/22/2005 6:42:50 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: quietolong

Control the farmer, but let any old doofus with a standard drivers license herd a 40,000# motor home down the open road.


60 posted on 09/22/2005 7:58:56 AM PDT by Fog Nozzle
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