A vehicle may be operated with a gross weight of 25 percent in excess of the gross weight for which it is registered when transporting a load of raw farm products or soil fertilizers under Iowa Code section 321.466 except that nothing in this rule shall be construed to allow operation of a special truck on the public highways with a gross weight exceeding the maximum gross weight allowed under Iowa Code section 321.463(6). In addition, the following products shall be considered raw farm products. This list shall not be deemed conclusive and shall not exclude other commodities which might be considered raw farm products:
Animals which are dead | Hides |
Berries, fresh | Honey, comb or extracted |
Blood | Melons |
Corn, ear corn including hybrids | Milk, raw |
Corn, shelled | Nursery stock |
Corn, cobs | Potatoes |
Cream, separated | Peat |
Eggs, fresh or frozen in shell | Poultry, live |
Flax | Saw logs |
Flaxseed | Sod |
Fodder | Soybeans |
Fruit, fresh | Straw, baled or loose |
Grain, threshed or unthreshed | Vegetables, fresh |
Hair | Wood, cord or stove wood |
Hay, baled or loose | Wool |
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 321.466(4) and 321.466(5).
Iowa Admin. Code r. 761-400.47