{"id":11069,"date":"2011-07-23T01:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2011-07-23T01:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T06:54:51","slug":"latta-opposes-dot-farm-machinery-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/07\/23\/latta-opposes-dot-farm-machinery-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta opposes DOT farm machinery rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Latta commented in opposition to a proposed Department of Transportation (DOT) rule that would classify farm machinery as commercial motor vehicles, requiring drivers of farm equipment to obtain a commercial driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, federal highway laws exempt farmers driving on public roads from certain commercial vehicle regulations during planting and harvest seasons (read Congressman Latta\u2019s letter to the DOT,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latta.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/FMCSA_Comment.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>To submit a comment, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/#!home\">www.regulations.gov<\/a>, via fax at 202.493.2251, or sent via U.S. mail to: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of Transportation, Room W-12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.<\/p>\n<p>All comments must be identified by Docket Number FMCSA-2011-0146, and must be submitted on or before August 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Latta commented in opposition to a proposed Department of Transportation (DOT) rule that would classify farm machinery as commercial motor vehicles, requiring drivers of farm equipment to obtain a commercial driver\u2019s license. Currently, federal highway laws exempt farmers driving on public roads from certain commercial vehicle regulations during planting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:55:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}