According to a MN DOT officer I talked to farm plates can take you up to 26,000 pounds. There is no grace but most officers will only give you a warning and "out of servies" till the weight is right for a couple of hundred pounds overweight. Call MNDOT and ask what the rules are so you are covered, be sure to get the name of the person you talked to.
1st haul I'd take it in about half full and get the weight. Then it should be easy to measure the depth of the beans and fighure out how many LBS per inch. May seem like a waste of fuel but get an over weight ticket and you will not think so.
Last year DOT was heavy on it around Battle Lake MN. Just about shut the potato haulers down with ratty old trucks being over weight and failing inspection. They stayed around until corn was in.....got a bunch of local farmers too. Haven't seen em this year too much but the tater haulers have much better looking and newer trucks this year with floaters to give the extra axle or 2.
Wife's uncle is certified to do DOT's for the state and US DOT stickers. The standards for getting the MN DOT farm sticker are not as hard as com trucks but THE COPS CAN WRITE YOU UP FOR ANY VOILATION THEY CAN FOR A COM TRUCK!!!!! He's pretty mad about it. Double standard for getting the sticker but one stadard for actually on the road.
If you have questions the forum is a great place to learn about DOT laws in many areas but the people you need to talk to are the enforcement folks. Last time I stopped at an inspection place the officer gave me a booklet on MN DOT laws. I stopped in my car because I'd seen that officer writing a ticket to a pickup pulling a single axle trailer with some small branches on it. Saw that on my way into town. Coming back she was in a wayside rest area with no one else in there at the time. She wrote the guy up for an unsecured load. That was shortly after a guy I know in the Foley MN area got nailed with a Bobcat behind a 1/2 ton truck. He's been running a Bobcat service for years and always had an F150. He's driving a F250 now.
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