[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR391.2]

[Page 1093]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 391_QUALIFICATIONS OF DRIVERS AND LONGER COMBINATION VEHICLE (LCV) 
DRIVER INSTRUCTORS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 391.2  General exemptions.

    (a) Farm custom operation. The rules in this part do not apply to a 
driver who drives a commercial motor vehicle controlled and operated by 
a person engaged in custom-harvesting operations, if the commercial 
motor vehicle is used to--
    (1) Transport farm machinery, supplies, or both, to or from a farm 
for custom-harvesting operations on a farm; or
    (2) Transport custom-harvested crops to storage or market.
    (b) Apiarian industries. The rules in this part do not apply to a 
driver who is operating a commercial motor vehicle controlled and 
operated by a beekeeper engaged in the seasonal transportation of bees.
    (c) Certain farm vehicle drivers. The rules in this part do not 
apply to a farm vehicle driver except a farm vehicle driver who drives 
an articulated (combination) commercial motor vehicle, as defined in 
Sec. 390.5. (For limited exemptions for farm vehicle drivers of 
articulated commercial motor vehicles, see Sec. 391.67.)

[36 FR 24219, Dec. 22, 1971, as amended at 37 FR 26112, Dec. 8, 1972; 54 
FR 12202, Mar. 24, 1989; 60 FR 38745, July 28, 1995; 61 FR 13346, Mar. 
26, 1996; 61 FR 17253, Apr. 19, 1996]