If you operate or tow a tractor, combine, agricultural products are taxed as motor Driving Rules being towed by a registered hay wagon or other implement of vehicles and must display license plates. An implement of husbandry may not be passenger automobile other than a husbandry on public roads, you must operated or towed on an interstate pickup truck follow state laws designed to ensure your Speed Limit highway. • If a towed implement of safety and that of other drivers. Pickup truck used primarily in the husbandry with a gross vehicle production or transportation of liquid An implement of husbandry may be weight of more than 6,000 pounds What is an implement of husbandry? fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia, or any operated or towed to the left of the center is required to have brakes, it must Minnesota statutes define an implement agricultural commodity may draw not to of a roadway only if it is escorted at the also have brakes adequate to stop of husbandry as a self-propelled or towed exceed two empty trailers when the front by a vehicle displaying hazard and hold it if it becomes detached vehicle designed or adapted to be used resulting combination does not exceed the warning lights visible in normal sunlight from the towing vehicle. (break exclusively for timber-harvesting, size and weight limitations otherwise and the operation does not extend into the away brake system) agricultural, horticultural, or livestock- prescribed by law. A pickup truck when left half of the roadway more than is raising operations. drawing two trailers shall not be operated necessary. Size and Weight Limitations on the highways of this state beyond a 35- Size This includes any towed vehicle that mile radius of the home post office of the Brakes With some exceptions, implements of meets the above definition whether it is owner of the pickup truck nor at a speed A self-propelled implement of husbandry husbandry are exempt from size being towed by another implement of exceeding 35 miles per hour. must be equipped with brakes adequate to limitations if: husbandry or by a registered motor control its movement and to stop and hold • The implement is being driven or vehicle. Slow Moving Vehicle (SMV) Emblems it and any vehicle it is towing. towed at a speed of 30 miles per All implements of husbandry which are hour or less; Driver’s license and license plates designed for operation at a speed of 30 A towed implement of husbandry must be • It is not operated on an interstate Any person driving or operating any farm miles per hour or less are required to equipped with brakes adequate to control highway; tractor (used primarily as a farm display a triangular slow moving vehicle its movement and to stop and hold it if: • And it is operated within a 75 mile implement) and other implements of emblem. The emblem must be visible radius of land owned, leased or husbandry temporarily operated or moved 600 feet to the rear of the implement. • it has a gross vehicle weight of operated by the farmer. upon a highway is exempt from the Towed implements which obscure the more than 24,000 pounds and was requirements to be a licensed driver. towing vehicle’s SMV emblem must manufactured and sold after Weight display an emblem of their own. A towed January 1, 1994; Self-propelled implements of husbandry Implements of husbandry and tractors implement of husbandry that is empty and • it has a gross vehicle weight of which are exempt from the size used solely for agricultural purposes are that is not self-propelled may be towed at more than 12,000 pounds and is requirements are also exempt from weight not taxed as motor vehicles and do not lawful speeds greater than 30 miles per towed by a vehicle other than a limitations. need to display license plates. However hour without removing the slow-moving self-propelled implement of farm trailers with a gross weight of vehicle emblem. husbandry; or Towed implements of husbandry 10,001 pounds or more, drawn by a • it has a gross vehicle weight of equipped with pneumatic tires operated passenger automobile or farm truck and more than 3,000 pounds and is on public highways must not exceed a used exclusively for transporting maximum wheel load of 500 pounds per Self-propelled implements of husbandry inch of tire width. These vehicles must are required to have: follow gross weight limits or posted • One white lamp to the front weight limits on bridges. • One red lamp to the rear • Two red reflectors to the rear Hitches mounted as close as practicable to A towed implement of husbandry must be the outside edges. Implements of equipped with one of the following: Combinations of a self-propelled and • A hitch with safety chains, towed implement(s) of husbandry are also Husbandry: • A regulation fifth wheel and required to have: kingpin assembly, or • At least one lamp showing white Safety on • A hitch pin or other hitching or amber to the front and red or For more information, contact the following agencies : device with a retainer that amber to the rear. prevents accidental unhitching. The lamp(s) shall be mounted to MN State Patrol Minnesota indicate as nearly as practicable the Commercial Vehicle Division When are lights required? What extreme left projection of the 1110 Centre Pointe Curve Suite 410 Roads lights/reflectors are required? combination. Mendota Heights, MN 55120 Amber flashing hazard lights are required • Two red reflectors visible 1-651-405-6171 to be displayed at all times on self- www.dps.state.mn.us/patrol/comveh to the rear mounted as close as propelled implements manufactured on or practicable to the outside edges. after January 1, 1970. Questions pertaining to driver’s licenses The reflectors are required to be MN Dept of Public Safety displayed on the last unit of the Driver & Vehicle Services All implements of husbandry are required combination. 445 Minnesota St. to display lights (as specified below) from St Paul, MN 55101 sunset to sunrise, at any time during (651)296-6911 inclement weather or when visibility is reduced.