WASHINGTON — the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has beaten a hasty retreat from its idea that a farmer driving a tractor on the public road ought to be required to get a commercial driver’s license (CDL), according to the National Chicken Council's Washington Report.
After getting 1,700 comments from the public, most of them telling the agency to forget it, DOT issued a news release announcing that it had no intention of issuing new rules on agricultural transportation.
“We have no intention of instituting onerous regulations on the hardworking farmers who feed our country and fuel. . .
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