A pair of Senators have introduced the Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization Act.
South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association President Eric Jennings says this bill removes un-needed red tape that would require in some cases having a commercial drives license just to haul around a farm or back to town say during harvest. The bill lets people legally pull and haul a gooseneck trailer with their pickup truck without having to get a CDL.
He says by passing the Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization Act, it brings hauling rules up to speed with modern day technology and would allow chores to get done on the farm where you could haul a few bales of hay without having a CDL
Jennings says as new technology comes out the laws need to keep up with it and be consistent and reasonable and simple to obey.
Under this legislation, exemptions are expanded 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 currently granted to farm vehicles under 26,001 pounds.
