If passed, change to CDL rules to impact ND farmers, ranchers
July 4, 2011 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
After the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently extended a public comment period for discussion of commercial driver’s license requirements, area farmers and ranchers are urging no more regulations.
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I personally think that if a farmer or rancher is pulling a long vehicle on the highway, they need a CDL. They are sharing the road with the public, why should they not follow the rules that commercial drivers have to. Yes, it may be “inconvenient”, but I imagine the fellow truckers – professional drivers think it is inconvenient too. Farmers and ranchers buy semis and cattle trailers, and hopper trailers, hauling not only their grain and livestock, but their neighbors grain and cattle too. They don’t have to license commercially, but they are using their equipment “for hire”! They can put county plates on their equipment, whereas a bonafide business must pay upwards of $1500.00 per truck. I personally believe if they are going to be on the road, sharing it with the general public, then they must have a CDL, follow the hours of service rules, which are put in place to make the roads a safer place. One industry should not be able to be exempt, just because it may be “inconvenient”
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