Re: Okay, how many have hauled farm equipment out

Posted by Kevin Bismark on June 24, 2005 at 17:16:13 from (64.12.117.7):

In Reply to: Okay, how many have hauled farm equipment out of s posted by kentuckydiesel on June 24, 2005 at 14:35:18:

I have read posts from a lot of guy"s that are not too sure about the rules, if you haul your own stuff, not for hire, not for business in the state you stuff is registered in you don"t need a dot number if it"s small enough, if you haul for hire you do, and if you haul your own stuff and go out of state you need the fancy numbers, I found that out but got lucky.
It seams all the states are different, when you drive by the scale and look at the sign it had a GVW posted for the trucks that have to stop, it you meet or exceed it you have to by law stop, once the trailer is on the truck you have to have the fire extinguisher and triangles in the truck, just like the federal motor carrier regulation say, in Minnesota last fall they stopped me to dip my tanks and check my medical card and license, depending on your state and the weight of the truck they may even require a class A drivers license, so the moral of the story is spend a few bucks and buy the truckers version of the map book that shows the scale locations and mile markers on the road and by pass them you can always" say you were looking for a place to stop and get a cup of coffee and stretch your legs if they come up on you with the portable scale deal, the sad thing is that when they inspect the trucks the people for the most part don"t have enough knowledge about trucks and trailers and the braking systems to know what is safe and what isin"t, they just passed a civil service test and got the free job, so you have to realize it"s not about safety, it"s about getting money for the state, just make sure you buy the best tires you can for your trailer and make sure your break away breaking system is working and you have good safety chains hooked up to something solid.
I always" wondered why I spent the time getting a dot inspection sticker on the trailer and then the next day they crawl all over it looking for problems, I looked at it closer than they ever would because I didn"t want to sit on the side of the road with wheel bearing or tire problems, just looked at a 21,000 lb trailer today for sale and wondered why there was no dot inspection sticker on it, must have been a lucky guy that had it...

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