highgrit":2lclv8tc said:
As long as your doing it for yourself or for free you don't have to worry about the laws.
Don't know about other places, but in OK, if your truck has a farm tag, you are exempt from a CDL and a health card. However, you must STILL comply with DOT regs. If the GWR of your pickup + GWR of your trailer = > #26,001, you must comply. This means you must display a DOT number on the tow vehicle, carry three orange safety triangles, fire extinguisher, safety chains, and break-a-way kit on the trailer. IF a weights-n-measures trooper sees you rolling down the highway with dual tandems or triple singles, they can stop you for no other reason than to inspect you, because either of those two combinations plus a truck GWR will be in excess of #26,001. Ask me how I know. :bang: I got a "violation" paper for only one triangle, no numbers, and no extinguisher. Didn't cost any money, but just had to sign the report and mail it to headquarters to tell them I have corrected the problem. I had a DOT number, just didn't have it displayed. It must be YOUR hay, meaning, from your land or something you have purchased. If you are hauling for a friend, there is where it gets sticky and the laws isn't defined very well. If he pays you a dollar or trades something, then it could be considered "for hire" and you must have CDL, health papers, and the insurance.
So basically, in OK, you can haul a rocking chair on a dual tandem for your grandma and be ok. If you put one bale of "farm commodity" hay on the trailer, you must be farm tagged and comply by the rules above. If you run a dual tandem or triple single, you are available for inspection at any time. This is what you get when you have a bunch of ag ignorant jerk-wads at your capital making laws they can't possibly understand.
Oh, ya, I also got written up for "mirrors that don't exceed the width of the load." He told me I didn't even know he was behind me until he hit the siren. He about crapped when I pointed out that I saw him the entire time and I was trying to get up the road where I could get him off in a ditch for his safety. I was hauling 5'x6's so I was pretty wide. I called and discussed the use of cameras with the Troop S headquarters, they handle weights and measures for the state. The law says "mirrors" not "reward facing devices that allow one to see behind them" so it is up in the air at this point. Again....lawmakers are tards.
Camera is a magnetic mount I slap on the back. It is the little, silver dot in the middle of the bar across the back. Display is in my console in the truck.
An hour before said "violation." And don't forget straps. They will nail you around here for "unsecured load" if any bales aren't "secured" by strap or by another bale that is. They even started being Richards about the inlines at one point and giving tickets for not having each bale strapped. That has since gone away....thank God.
Chicken coups are another story here on the interstate. IF you have DOT numbers on your two rig AND the coop can plainly see that you are hauling hay or ag equipment when you fly past them, they won't normally chase you down. Anything else you are risking it when you drive past them. Just hammer them to cover the weight we haul. "Under Registered" ticket will cost ya $175. It is cheaper to just wait to get one than to pay for it when tagging your down and take the first exit. LOL Typically the only ticket that cost you money would be the fact that 90% of us don't register our truck for proper weight when we tag trucks. Helps to have a Corp Commision weights-n-measures guy living across the fence from ya.
Either way...there is your lesson on OK law for the day. I'll pick up a new Red Rhino tomorrow at 8am in Mounds, OK at GoBob.
