A pair of senators recently introduced the Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization Act to expand and modernize exemptions for covered farm vehicles.
Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) say the legislation removes the regulatory red tape regarding Department of Transportation (DOT) registration and fuel tax licensing requirements that have “little to do with vehicle safety.”
The legislation expands exemptions for covered farm vehicles to allow farm vehicles with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating under 36,001 pounds to travel across state lines with the same exemptions given to farm vehicles under 26,001 lbs.
This would exempt the vehicles from needing a USDOT number, filing a unified carrier registration and obtaining an International Fuel Tax Agreement license.
“This bipartisan legislation removes out of date regulations to better reflect modern day farm vehicles, and ultimately allows folks to legally pull a gooseneck trailer with their pickup truck without jumping through hoops to obtain a for-hire commercial driving license,” Marshall said.
