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I have had a CDL license and med card as long as there has been a CDL license, because it was the right thing to do even though I didn't have to have one. CSA has gone over the top with "safety" provisions for commercial truck drivers but seems to turn their heads away from the farm truck drivers. Aren't these trucks driving on the same highways as the rest of the "commercial trucks" and motorists? In my opinion, a farm truck is a truck and can do as much damage in an accident as a commercial truck. What are your thoughts?", "thumbUrl": "", "dateAdded": "2012-03-17T03:57:07Z", "lastPost": "2012-03-17T03:57:07Z", "views": 2083, "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "messageCount": 5, "premiumOnly": 0, "isfeatured": 0, "showInDays": -100, "showDate": "", "forumLink": "", "youtubeVideoId": "", "approved": 1, "active": 1, "alias": "agricultural-exemptions-passed", "forumUrl": "https://www.bulkloads.com/forum/agricultural-exemptions-passed/", "userId": 1842, "firstName": "JIM", "lastName": "DREHER", "companyName": "ASHBY TRANSPORTATION INC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "STAR CITY", "state": "AR", "userCommentCount": 36, "userLikes": 3, "replies": [ { "replyId": 22283, "content": "i totaly agree because they not only have to have a med card but they are also taking work from us by hauling out of elevators and from other farmers on farm plates. they are also going in and droping the rates for us because they will come in and under bid us just to get the work so they can give their employees something to do. i think a farmer shouldnt have anything more than a straight truck.\n", "contentHtml": "i totaly agree because they not only have to have a med card but they are also taking work from us by hauling out of elevators and from other farmers on farm plates. they are also going in and droping the rates for us because they will come in and under bid us just to get the work so they can give their employees something to do. i think a farmer shouldnt have anything more than a straight truck. ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-02-15", "dateAdded": "2012-03-17T04:54:58Z", "likes": 1, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 6599, "firstName": "DEAN", "lastName": "HELLER", "companyName": "DEAN HELLER TRUCKING", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "ORCHARD ", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 1, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22284, "content": "\n Here's a 'copy and paste' directly from the article...This will blow your mind...\n \n \n The second amendment would exempt drivers of farm vehicles from obtaining a commercial driver's license and would provide and exemption for farm trucks from federal regulations that are aimed at the long haul trucking industry. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., brought this amendment to the bill along with co-sponsors Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. Both amendments have widespread support within the agriculture industry. \n \"Farmers and ranchers are not professional truck drivers and shouldn't be treated as such,\" National Cattlemen's Beef Association Director of Legislative Affairs Kent Bacus said. \"Hauling livestock to market two times a year is hardly the same as hauling goods across the country on a daily basis.\"\n \n .... \n", "contentHtml": " \r\nHere's a 'copy and paste' directly from the article...This will blow your mind... \r\n \r\n\r\n\tThe second amendment would exempt drivers of farm vehicles from obtaining a commercial driver's license and would provide and exemption for farm trucks from federal regulations that are aimed at the long haul trucking industry. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., brought this amendment to the bill along with co-sponsors Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. Both amendments have widespread support within the agriculture industry.\r\n\r\n\t"Farmers and ranchers are not professional truck drivers and shouldn't be treated as such," National Cattlemen's Beef Association Director of Legislative Affairs Kent Bacus said. "Hauling livestock to market two times a year is hardly the same as hauling goods across the country on a daily basis." \r\n\t \r\n\t....\r\n ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-11-01", "dateAdded": "2012-03-17T20:38:40Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 2969, "firstName": "AARON", "lastName": "SANNE", "companyName": "P & M ENTERPRISES", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "NORFOLK", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 90, "userLikes": 185, "userDislikes": 18, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22285, "content": "While I agree with you on most points, in my area a couple of farmers have been turned in for hauling for hire and it stopped all of that for quite a while. We now have a couple of up start BTO's (big time operators, farmers) that are moonlighting. If you know of people that are abusing farm plates, in my opinion, you should report them, not only to keep the commercial hauling field even but to also keep the farm operations even. By the way, I have a commercial truck and a farm truck and I also farm. My farm truck only hauls for my my farm.", "contentHtml": "While I agree with you on most points, in my area a couple of farmers have been turned in for hauling for hire and it stopped all of that for quite a while. We now have a couple of up start BTO's (big time operators, farmers) that are moonlighting. If you know of people that are abusing farm plates, in my opinion, you should report them, not only to keep the commercial hauling field even but to also keep the farm operations even. By the way, I have a commercial truck and a farm truck and I also farm. My farm truck only hauls for my my farm.", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2011-04-21", "dateAdded": "2012-03-18T04:56:08Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 4377, "firstName": "JAMES", "lastName": "HUSER", "companyName": "HUSER FARMS", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "BERNE", "state": "IN", "userCommentCount": 1, "userLikes": 1, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 22286, "content": "A truck is a truck is a truck..anybody who drives one whether it is twice a year across the road or that hundred thou a year driver..need to be properly trained and qualified..is it not a fact that most accidents occure within 25 miles of home.. So why do these farmer want to be truck drivers think they ares can get a pass...and what happens when they kill my family because they arent qualified...but think they can operate a truck? Talk about lobbyists..maybe we need to sue them for that dead family...", "contentHtml": "A truck is a truck is a truck..anybody who drives one whether it is twice a year across the road or that hundred thou a year driver..need to be properly trained and qualified..is it not a fact that most accidents occure within 25 miles of home.. So why do these farmer want to be truck drivers think they ares can get a pass...and what happens when they kill my family because they arent qualified...but think they can operate a truck? Talk about lobbyists..maybe we need to sue them for that dead family...", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-11-12", "dateAdded": "2012-03-31T20:55:04Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 3078, "firstName": "JEFF", "lastName": "PEARSON", "companyName": "C & R TRUCKING INC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PAYSON", "state": "UT", "userCommentCount": 927, "userLikes": 225, "userDislikes": 94, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 } ], "userDislikes": 7, "signUpDate": "2010-06-15", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0, "iSubscribe": 0 }

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Posted on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 PM CST in STAR CITY, AR

AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTIONS PASSED

Seems to me there has been a double standard created here. I grew up on a farm and used to be a farmer for over 20 years and am now in the trucking business. I have had a CDL license and med card as long as there has been a CDL license, because it was the right thing to do even though I didn't have to have one. CSA has gone over the top with "safety" provisions for commercial truck drivers but seems to turn their heads away from the farm truck drivers. Aren't these trucks driving on the same highways as the rest of the "commercial trucks" and motorists? In my opinion, a farm truck is a truck and can do as much damage in an accident as a commercial truck. What are your thoughts?

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