Fed Wants to Control Farm Tractors

"The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, has proposed reclassifying all farm vehicles as Commercial Motor Vehicles. Farmers would be required to obtain Commercial Drivers Licenses" for their tractors and their combines out in the fields, not only on public property. "If the rule goes into effect, anybody who operates any motorized farm equipment will have to pass the same rigorous tests that semi drivers do. They’ll have to fill out the same, highly detailed forms and daily logs. American farmers would have to keep track of how many hours they work and sleep, how many miles their vehicles travel. They’d have to display Department of Transportation numbers -- and, of course, they’d have to pay the government fees for all these new burdens [To pay to support more government intrusion in their business. -RT].

In one fell swoop, the regime would have more regulatory control over farmers and their 800,000 vehicles. Nobody knows what they would do with that power. But since the EPA already has its regulatory nose in the American farmer's barn we can only imagine what new 'green' regulations the DOT will impose. Farmers, of course, are livid that the regime is considering making it even more difficult to keep the country fed. Bad enough they’re already battling insects, vermin, droughts, fires, floods, and everything else Mother Nature can dish out. Now, Obama’s regulatory jackals want to put these farmers in the government’s crosshairs." For your info, the government rescinded these regulation wishes right after Rush Limbaugh's revealing them on the air. They're SO afraid of him! (Rush Limbaugh)