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For years I did everything that was necessary to run trucks over the road, and I mean everything. I use to run my truck into the stations just to have them do a cat 1 inspection and get a cvsa sticker to keep them off my back when going over the scales. But when they started bothering me with...

I use to haul hay all the way to KY with my farm plate, but once you go past that 150 mile point you have to do the log book and all the other stuff, and if you go out of state you need to get the IFTA stickers, and in KY you need to be bonded and have a KYU # along with the DOT #.

I pulled my farm plate off my one ton and put a regular plate on to get around it. I've talked to DOT officers about it, and anything under 26001lbs is in a gray area of that law, it can be interpenetrated either way. The DOT is only focused on one tons, if you put a farm plate on a mini van...

This is called discretionary function, and it seems that it is being exercised and used more and more, redefining law to suit a give situation.