The occasional trip exemption is designed to cover the situation where a person may have a need to have one, non-recurring shipment moved and engages the services of a non-motor carrier to perform such movement. If, however, the engaged carrier is in the business of performing transportation services or of performing such service as an incident to another primary business, the carriage will be deemed to be for hire carriage, and as such, is therefore not exempt under the Motor Vehicle Carrier Law.
S.C. Code Regs. § 38-408