If you can weigh over 10,000 lbs haul for a business and travel interstate you need a DOT number. If you own everything including the load this exempts you from MC number but not DOT. If you live in some states and travel intrastate you need this DOT number. Iowa and Wisconsin fall under this rule.
So if we assume that you will use this truck to haul tractors you will use on your farm or resell then yes you need a DOT number. You just use the same number you have on your semi.
You go out of state and weigh over 26,000 lbs so you need a ifta sticker also.
Now sit down. Since you travel out of state; use this truck for a business; and it weighs over 26,000 lbs your tag has to be a apportion tag just like your semi unless you plan on running farm tags.
Here is where it gets iffy........ This makes your truck a commercial truck so your wife driving it with a regular license is pretty much out the door. While she does not weigh 26,000 with just the truck what is to say she is not on her way to pickup a trailer. I do know some mobile home totters that push the rules. They claim as long as they are pulling a home they are commercial. But once they drop the home the truck becomes a personal truck and is not subject to DOT rules. I do not know how I would deal with this if put in this situation.
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