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Paul in MN

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When I bought this trailer earlier this year, I did not expect to pull it beyond the 150 mile radius of our farm. But now I need to deliver a hay baler to daughter's farm near Lebanon MO, about 675 miles. As the home place is in MN, I need to go through IA, and south to I 44 in MO. I can get the baler down to 8'6" with some minor disassembly, so that should be legal. But the big question is how to deal with the farm plate distance restriction. The trailer is plated at 18,000#. The load will have a few other parts and pieces tucked under the baler axle and well tied down. Your thoughts???

Thanks for your replys.

Paul in MN
 
This isn't going to end well. Do yourself a favor and hire it out. Out of state and a farm tag on an Interstate is like blasting an air horn at the DOT guy's as you pass by. JMO
 
Agreed, hire it out. Much cheaper than going commercial or risking getting caught with your current set up.
 
(quoted from post at 22:00:26 11/02/16) Agreed, hire it out. Much cheaper than going commercial or risking getting caught with your current set up.
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Gotta agree! Or else contact the states you plan to travel through and get any permits required. Be sure to get the names, first and last of anyone you talk to and write them down! Check the laws. I believe that you will require a log book too!

Rick
 
Do you need license plates if you're hauling farm equipment?

I have heard in the past that you don't.

But I really don't know.

I agree though with everyone else if you're worried about hauling it yourself just to hire it out.
 
Is this a one time occurrence, or will this happen more often? If it's a one-time trip, and you can be patient, you can probably hire it done one way for less cost than you can drive the round trip. If it will be a regular trip, I would upgrade your registration or schedule another hauler.
 
Here in MO we buy a trailer license plate with no weight limit listed on the plate and no restrictions where you can pull it...My GN trailer has been in 8 different states....The limits are on the vehicle pulling it....I have a beyond local 24,000 lb license on my Ford dually so can go anywhere.......MO hasn't been enforcing DOT numbers on pickups pulling trailers as practically no one has them in my area..You can get to Lebanon without getting on I-44...

Iowa would be the state that I would worry about..Maybe you can buy a one time trip permit or upgrade your current license if your worried..
 
Iowa is going to be your problem. They are very hard to deal with. If you could go thru WI and IL down to MO you more than likely would have no problem. If you would haul on a weekend that would help as well.Less DOT. Tom
 
Need tags unless you can do what you want with a SMV and stay under 25 That a truck cannot do in road gear.
 
In Ky we used to have farm tags with no weight restriction, untill other states said they would not recognize them with out weight restrictions. They now comply with that when you buy them you pay extra for more weight. Iowa might recognize MN plates but you would have to have Cdl by crossing state lines.
 
You might want to rethink doing it yourself. Go to Diesel Permits Inc. and go down to farm truck in state and out of state and it will give you the information you need about plating and permits needed.
 
(quoted from post at 20:53:57 11/02/16) When I bought this trailer earlier this year, I did not expect to pull it beyond the 150 mile radius of our farm. But now I need to deliver a hay baler to daughter's farm near Lebanon MO, about 675 miles. As the home place is in MN, I need to go through IA, and south to I 44 in MO. I can get the baler down to 8'6" with some minor disassembly, so that should be legal. But the big question is how to deal with the farm plate distance restriction. The trailer is plated at 18,000#. The load will have a few other parts and pieces tucked under the baler axle and well tied down. Your thoughts???

Thanks for your replys.

Paul in MN
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Make double sure that the load is secured properly, all lights are working, obey all the traffic laws, and then just go. Avoid I-35 if possible. U.S. 71 and 59 are both very good roads and much less stressful. Most of the Iowa highway patrol folks won't give a second notice to the farm plates.
 
Locally we can buy single trip registrations to use a non-ifta truck. They cost a lot, are a pain in the butt as they are only good 3 days that need to be specified ahead of time.

We can also get in trouble as the adjacent jurisdiction calls farm trucks commercial vehicles and wants Class 1 or Class 3 license towing a 10k+ trailer. I recently pulled a gooseneck with a boat on a boat trailer through and bypassed the weigh stations without issue but I could have been in a world of hurt if they stopped me. The truck was registered at 14k and the trailer at 16k with commercial plates.
 
Your situation is the reason I do put regular plates on my trailers. Yes, it does cost more, but it doesn't limit me on what I can and can't do with my own trailers. It might be worth a trip to your local DMV to see about changing your registration and plates? But with a tri-axle, maybe you're best not to? I don't know about the laws with a pickup and trailer combinations over 26,000 gvw and needing cdl's and such. I thought long and hard about moving to a larger trailer than a 14,000 gvw when I bought a new one this summer to replace my 12 year old trailer. But, when all things were considered, for my needs a 14,000 gvw trailer licensed with regular plates seemed the most logical. I have hauled farm items in 15+ states outside of MN with my previous pickup and trailer, never had an issue of any kind. i hope you can figure something out. Nothing worse than being fully capable of doing a job on your own, but being forced to hire someone else because of government limitations.
 
I live in Missouri and run farm tags on my own truck. I've also trucked commercially all over the four state area and have seen a lot of trailers on the roads.

If it was me, I would make sure that you are not over width, have everything tied down well (and obvious that it is), make sure your lighting equipment is working, and just do it. In my experience, you won't be bothered if you stay away from the scale-houses. The regular Highway Patrol has better things to do than worry about your farm tags. If your rig is under 26,000 GVWR, I wouldn't worry about it. If it over that, take a route that has no scale-houses.
 
Just stay the heck out of IA and you will be fine(and my work truck has IA plates)
 

Hire it done. There is simply too much garbage that goes with interstate trucking to bother with it for a one time trip.
 
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