I saw a little ad in the SC Farmer magazine that said that SC is set to start enforcing federal INTRAstate DOT laws 10-1-11. These apply to any vehicle used in "commerce" with a GCVW of +10k lbs. Read this as your half ton and a trailer, the literature they sent me said so.
This means, to begin with, a name and DOT number displayed. The little blurb about meeting "DOT health and safety regulations" has me really worried, up until now "Farm" tags in SC ment you could drive anything w/o a CDL, health card, DOT inspection, etc.
I really hate the idea of having to get my '52 COE (19,500 GVW) to pass a DOT inspection, and I can't afford to have a play pretty truck that gets 5 mpg. Anybody out there been through this?
Anybody got any good ideas for displaying DOT numbers that don't look so gawky? And you might want to check into it if you are working your old trucks, I can hardly believe SC is the only state to make this up, we aren't first in anything.
Thanks,
Scott
