"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..."
Hmmm......
From that blurb, from the piece FWJ posted the original link to, it would certainly sound as if the proposed changes would directly affect the operation of farm/heavy equipment.
Idiocy. When, as we now so often find ourselves, the "public servants" we are working with have no idea how the real world operates and only understand how the bureaucratic system operates........we have this. Heavy equipment is big, heavy, and burns diesel so therefore it's just like semi-trucks to the bureaucratic mind. Since heavy road trucks need licensing and records and such, then, so should heavy off-road vehicles. They're both loud and blow billowing clouds of dark smoke after all. It makes perfect bureaucratic sense to them since they have no idea of the real world applications and implications of such a decision. Ya see.
One more symptom of the lingering, growing, and deadly cancer our nation has in its heart in the District of Corruption. Not to be "political" in a, well, thread about government and politics..........but there are voting habits that lead to such types of proposals. There are others which lead to diametrically opposed types of proposals.
You figure it out. It's really very clear and simple.
