Posted on 08/12/2011 6:27:45 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt standards that would reclassify all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles, officials said. Likewise, the proposal, if adopted, would require all farmers and everyone on the farm who operates any of the equipment to obtain a CDL, they added.
The proposed rule change would mean that anyone who drives a tractor or operates any piece of motorized farming equipment would be required to pass the same tests and complete the same detailed forms and logs required of semi-tractor trailer drivers.
Drivers would keep logs of information including hours worked and miles traveled. Vehicles would be required to display DOT numbers. A CDL in Virginia costs $64 for eight years, or $8 per year, not including the cost of an instructional class and the written test.
If the DOT reclassifies farm vehicles and implements as commercial vehicles, the federal government will have regulatory control over the nation’s farm workers, estimated at over 800,000, by requiring them to have commercial drivers licenses.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazettevirginian.com ...
Let’s see...Machines on a farm....Combine, wheat baler, backhoe and field rake.....seems pretty simple. If one of them DOT inspectors comes on your property, shoot him with the ‘varmint’ shotgun, run the combine over him, bale his worthless ass with the baler, dig a hole with the backhoe, push his worthless ass in the hole, fill it up and then run the raker.....PROBLEM SOLVED!
Yup; farming IS one of the most dangerous jobs to perform!
Nor do they care. Now silence yourself and turn in your paperwork, serf.
LOL, don’t drive trucks or tractors anymore.
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