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Cowboy2005

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I know not many of you are in wisconsin but I was just curious if any of you know if its legal for someone who has a tractor safety certificate but not a drivers license drive a truck with farm plates from farm to feild or farm to farm?? Seems like everyone around here thinks it is but I thought I'd heard otherwise? It's not important I'm just curious.

-Garrett
 
Live in north Central Wisconsin and have 2 trucks with dual purpose farm plates. I have never read or heard anything that farm plates allow an unlicensed driver to operate on public roads. Liability insurance is a requirement and would likely not cover an underage driver. On your own property you should be fine. Many farm kids were driving long before they had a license.
 
i hardly think so. i have safety certificates for lots of stuff dont mean it passes as a drivers licence.
 
The exemption applies to tractors but not to a car or truck.



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I don't know if this would effect you or not,but to get farm plates you have to run an active farm and the state will want income records on your products you sell,and for some states you have to be active for a couple years prior to apllying for plates.If you want my opinion (you probably don't,but here it is anyway!),If this is a rural area,just slap an SMV sign (the old orange triangle) on the truck and don't go faster than 25mph,as that's the limit for smv's,and since you are just going farm to farm I don't see why not.

Rock
 
I didnt think it would be legal but several people told me it was, so I don't know where they got they're information.
 
(quoted from post at 20:23:51 09/05/20) I didnt think it would be legal but several people told me it was, so I don't know where they got they're information.
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Cowboy2005, That is what YTDOT is for. It is "alternative" information and rules, that come from what someone heard and then told someone else.
 
Don't know nothing about ant other state, when i reg my truck (4700 int) all they wanted was my TX agricultural and timber registration card.
 
FINALLY ..... a reply based on an actual document instead of "I heard" or "my uncle told me" .... ha !!!
 
I'm glad I don't live in those states. A drivers license for a tractor. Don't need a license to drive a tractor in MI. And as for trucks there are or used to be 2 different farm plates. One only allows you to go from the field to the bin or closest market like the local elevator. The other will let you go mostly only the 150 air miles though nobody has had a problem with going farther as far as I know. You do need a farm endorsement on a regular car license or a Communist Drivers License to drive them on the road if over a certain GVW.
 
By "truck", do you mean a pickup, a pickup and trailer or wagon, a grain straight truck or a semi tuck and trailer? I doubt that it is legal to drive any on the road w/o a drivers license. Most states publish online drivers manuals, so the laws and requirements in your state should be easy to find.

Decades ago in the Dakotas it was legal for underage students to drive a school bus or a grain truck w/o a license, due to the labor shortage and lack of traffic. I don't know if that is true today. Finding insurance could be the toughest hurtle.
 
I am assuming by your questions and your handle that you are 15.

You will need to check with your local DMV and insurance provider, we are all guessing.

Thanks for posting.
 
We dont even have farm plates anymore. People who dont farm were buying them because they were cheaper.
 
The 2015 version of Farm Bureaus Farm Transportation handbook says Michigan has a farm permit for 14year-olds. I can't seem to open the 2020 version due to software versions. It may have changed.

My neighbors both got to drive young, after their Dad blinded himself removing stumps with dynamite. I was about 13 for my first trip to the mill by myself.
 
Not sure what rules in Illinois...but knew a fella who couldn’t get a drivers license, and drove his tractor everywhere!
Similar stories about using lawn mowers. ...and ATVs
See the movie “The Straight Stoty “ with Richard Farnsworth.
 
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