Feds to require CDL for farm tractors

[Fixemall]

I hear they are going to create a task force to come check all our dishwashers to make sure nobody loaded knives pointed up...how did all the kids I beat up in school get into elected office?

 

[sweep]

England, Ireland and Scotland has required license to operate tractors for 60-70 years and tractors have license plates.

Glad to see it's being tabled.

 

[dave1949]

Good Mornin Biggerten,
I think that you would find that most farmers have CDL liscences allready...

As far as the migrant workers that work on the farm, that may be something completely different !

A large part of obtaining a CDL, deals with air brake systems and the associated checks that go with it to have a truck safetly on the road. That being said, farm tractors dont need to deal with that issue. I dont have a problem with safety inspections, but having to have a CDL to operate one seems strange at best to me JMO !

Just another example of our government going in the wrong direction !

I have a CDL, not that I have used it much. I had to parallel park a tractor trailer, do a alley docking and like you say, pass a written and verbal exam on air brakes, safety check, etc. I don't think those skills have much to do with operating field equipment.

It seems like a sensible approach, if one is needed even, would be to have a FDL - farm drivers license. I haven't heard of many combines reported in hit and run accidents :laughing:

I think some states do have required Ag operator safety classes for operators under a certain age.
Dave.

 

[scott_vt]

It seems like a sensible approach, if one is needed even, would be to have a FDL - farm drivers license. I haven't heard of many combines reported in hit and run accidents :laughing:

Dave.

Good Mornin Dave,
That idea seems to make much more senxe to me, although our goverment might think that would require yet another agency, and all the beauracratic baloney that goes alopng with it !

 

[elkhurst1]

Another way for the government to obtain more money to waste.

 

[Jay4200]

Crop-share tenant farmers will no longer be considered for-hire and implements of husbandry will not be regulated as trucks under the terms of the announcement issued this morning by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA.)

What's an implement of husbandry? Isn't that like a marital aid? OTOH, maybe a commercial license for one of them isn't a bad idea...

JayC

 

[Duffster]

As proposed, it certainly would have applied to farm tractors.

In fact, it was targeting tractors/combines as a primary focus of the proposed laws.

Got any links to that.

From what I have read linking tractors to the CDL was a bit of a leap.

 

[RickB]

Got any links to that.

From what I have read linking tractors to the CDL was a bit of a leap.

You need to read more and do your own verification. Every time you are in doubt about something, the burden is on everybody else to educate you. Not my job this time. Instruments of husbandry are tractors, combines and other self propelled equipment used in production agriculture.

 

[2458n]

IT gets worse you need a hazemet endorsement to haul fuel. This requires $100.00 every four years for Homeland security to renew your endorsement. Finger printed and the whole works. I thought it was a one time thing and went through the process. NO it is every time you redue your CDL.

 

[Duffster]

You need to read more and do your own verification. Every time you are in doubt about something, the burden is on everybody else to educate you. Not my job this time. Instruments of husbandry are tractors, combines and other self propelled equipment used in production agriculture.

I will take that as a No?

What I have read explicitly stated that you would not need a CDL for tractors.