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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: 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...

Subject to what? Any petty tyranny the Feds dream up? Cite for me the portion of the Constitution that gives the Fed morons any authority over motor vehicles whatsoever, please.

61 posted on 09/22/2005 9:55:24 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: MEpajamaMONSTER
Stupid infiltrated both parties. So don't blame Repub's

Why not? Republican-stupid is OK? Classic non-sequitur you posted there.

62 posted on 09/22/2005 9:57:52 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Echo Talon
Everyone else gets regulated why not farmers?

You sure love regulation and control, just for its own sake, don't you?

How about we try deregulating everybody a whole lot more, and get rid of idiotic crap foisted on us by morons who could only get government jobs? And let's get rid of the morons while we're at it, too.

63 posted on 09/22/2005 10:03:15 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Hank Rearden
Cite for me the portion of the Constitution that gives the Fed morons any authority over motor vehicles whatsoever, please. In the case of heavy trucks, as for ships, electric lines, or trains, it is the commerce clause. The reasoning, as I would put it, is thus: The constitution reserves for the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce, this has been interpreted to include the right to regulate the conveyances that are of the type that are used for said commerce. I believe that the statute defines this for trucks as vehicles in excess of 10,000 lbs GCVW. You will find that most if not all city buses have DOT number on them, this is despite the fact that for many cities these buses cross state lines once in their lifetime (when being delivered).
64 posted on 09/22/2005 1:49:47 PM PDT by Fraxinus
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To: Hank Rearden

>>> And let's get rid of the morons while we're at it <<<<

The government has tried that too.

The State Boys Rebellion
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422319

It’s interesting that Germany looked to the US for it’s ideas on eugenics.

Excerpt from link:
Though they couldn't possible know it, the children of the Fernald State School were the victims of bad science and a newly developed bureaucracy designed to save America from the so-called "menace of the feebleminded." Beginning early in the twentieth century, United States health officials used crude versions of the modern IQ tests to identify supposedly "deficient" children and lock them away. The idea was to protect society from potential criminals and to prevent so-called undesirables from having children and degrading the American gene pool......

...... It reveals the danger in misguided science, the fearsome power of unchecked bureaucracies,


65 posted on 09/22/2005 1:58:46 PM PDT by quietolong
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To: quietolong
I was referring to getting rid of the morons in government, which seems to be a moron magnet, hiring those incapable of actually producing anything elsewhere.

But I'll grant you the feeblemindedness of these government morons. Retarded people outside government usually can't mess up our lives; those within, can.

66 posted on 09/22/2005 3:02:03 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: from occupied ga
Who's Cindy?, Your wife?

Re: your FR name "from occupied ga" WND

67 posted on 09/22/2005 11:55:40 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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