Intrastate Exempt Carriers (Minn. Stat. § 221.025)
A carrier who is not required to obtain for-hire operating authority when exclusively engaged in specified types of transportation as listed under Minn. Stat. §221.025.
- the transportation of students to or from school or school activities in a school bus inspected
and certified under section 169.451; and the transportation of children or parents to or from a Head Start facility or Head Start
activity in a Head Start bus inspected and certified under section
169.451:
- the transportation of solid waste, as defined in section
116.06, subdivision 22
, including recyclable materials and waste tires, except that the term "hazardous waste" has the
meaning given it in section 221.011, subdivision 31;
- a commuter van as defined in section
221.011, subdivision
27;
- authorized emergency vehicles as defined in section
169.01, subdivision 5, including ambulances; and tow trucks equipped with proper and legal warning devices when picking up and transporting:
-
disabled or wrecked motor vehicles
- vehicles
towed or transported under a towing order issued by a public employee
authorized to issue a towing order;
- the transportation of grain samples
under prescribed conditions;
- the delivery of agricultural lime;
- the transportation of dirt and sod within an area having
a 50-mile radius from the home post office of the person performing
the transportation;
- the transportation of sand, gravel, bituminous asphalt
mix, concrete ready mix, concrete blocks or tile and the mortar
mix to be used with the concrete blocks or tile, or crushed rock
to or from the point of loading or a place of gathering within
an area having a 50-mile radius from that person's home post office
or a 50-mile radius from the site of construction or maintenance
of public roads and streets;
- the transportation of pulpwood, cordwood, mining timber,
poles, posts, decorator evergreens, wood chips, sawdust, shavings,
and bark from the place where the products are produced to the
point where they are to be used or shipped;
- the transportation of fresh vegetables from farms to
canneries or viner stations, from viner stations to canneries,
or from canneries to canneries during the harvesting, canning,
or packing season, or transporting sugar beets, wild rice, or
rutabagas from the field of production to the first place of delivery
or unloading, including a processing plant, warehouse, or railroad
siding;
- the transportation of property or freight, other than
household goods and petroleum products in bulk, entirely within
the corporate limits of a city or between contiguous cities;
- the transportation of unprocessed dairy products in
bulk within an area having a 100-mile radius from the home post
office of the person providing the transportation;
- the transportation of agricultural, horticultural,
dairy, livestock, or other farm products within an area having
a 100-mile radius from the person's home post office and the carrier
may transport other commodities within the 100-mile radius if
the destination of each haul is a farm;
- the transportation of newspapers, as defined in section
331A.01, subdivision 5, telephone books, handbills, circulars, or pamphlets in a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000
pounds or less; and
- transportation of potatoes from the field of production,
or storage site owned or otherwise controlled by the producer,
to the first place of processing.
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