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Old 10-07-2021, 06:46 PM   #1
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Daily driver

I’ve been trying to get a pic of this truck for awhile. I pass it on the road a lot, but haven’t caught it parked until today.
This is a farmers daily driver. He drives it at least 20 miles a day up a steep mountain and back down.
He really is using it for farm use, picking up groceries and hardware are where I’ve seen it, besides parked at his farm.
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Old 10-07-2021, 06:50 PM   #2
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Old 10-07-2021, 07:50 PM   #3
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That is a bit awesome. Got to be some sort of cost per year record.

When I was a kid there was a rancher just like that. He would buy a brand new blazer and drive that thing into the ground. The first I noticed was a 70. Then go buy another brand new one.
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Old 10-07-2021, 08:09 PM   #4
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I'm guessing it's exempt from any safety inspections...
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Old 10-07-2021, 08:32 PM   #5
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I'm guessing it's exempt from any safety inspections...
I don't think that it could possibly pass a safety inspection. It says "Farm Use"; doesn't that mean it isn't supposed to be used on the road, as in not paying for license tags?
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Old 10-07-2021, 08:34 PM   #6
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Old 10-07-2021, 08:35 PM   #7
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At least He doesn't have to worry about anybody stealing it or banging there doors into his or scratching it up. Way to go. Bet people walk way around it in parking lot. Be funny watching people all day. Good for him. Paid for itself many times over. Probably pretty happy guy. Cool!!
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Old 10-07-2021, 09:03 PM   #8
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I don't think that it could possibly pass a safety inspection. It says "Farm Use"; doesn't that mean it isn't supposed to be used on the road, as in not paying for license tags?
Actually, here in Virginia, putting “ Farm use” on it restricts you to 75 miles from your farm and only farm use. Getting groceries isn’t considered farm use, though many push it. No registration, no inspections, No insurance ( though you’re still liable). Has to be 7500 gvw or more, I believe. You can also get a state issued “farm tag” that expands your use, as you’re considered registered then, but it’ll cost you a small yearly fee.
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Old 10-07-2021, 09:14 PM   #9
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I’m not positive, but farm use applies to using it for anything pertaining to your farm. Getting groceries and hardware fall into those categories. He probably passes several Roanoke County cops and the Roanoke and Floyd state troopers at least weekly. As a farmer once told me about driving a tractor on a slanted field,’ you just have to find your balls’.
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Old 10-07-2021, 09:17 PM   #10
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I'm gonna drive mine until it looks like that!
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Old 10-07-2021, 10:24 PM   #11
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I’m not positive, but farm use applies to using it for anything pertaining to your farm. Getting groceries and hardware fall into those categories. He probably passes several Roanoke County cops and the Roanoke and Floyd state troopers at least weekly. As a farmer once told me about driving a tractor on a slanted field,’ you just have to find your balls’.
No, I can assure you that groceries doesn’t count. Hardware, yes. Been down that road. Like I said though, 9 out of 10 of Virginia’s finest won’t challenge ya unless it’s you really take advantage of it.
From the dmv website;
You are not required to register a vehicle (obtain license plates and decals) or pay a registration fee for any pickup or panel truck, sport utility vehicle, vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 7,500 pounds, trailer, or semitrailer used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes on lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner. Although registration is not required, such vehicles must be titled. This registration exemption applies only to vehicles that are not operated on or over any public highway for any purpose other than:
Crossing a highway;
Operating along a highway for a distance of no more than seventy-five (75) miles from one part of the owner's land to another, irrespective of whether the tracts adjoin;
Taking the vehicle or attached fixtures to and from a repair shop for repairs;
Taking another vehicle exempt from registration under any provision of Va. Code §§ 46.2-664 through 46.2-668 or § 46.2-672, or any part or subcomponent of such a vehicle, to or from a repair shop for repairs, including return trips;
Operating along a highway to and from a refuse disposal facility for the purpose of disposing of trash and garbage generated on a farm; or
Operating along a highway for a distance of no more than seventy-five (75) miles for the purpose of obtaining supplies for agricultural or horticultural purposes, seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, or animal feed. (Va. Code § 46.2-665)
Transporting the vehicle owner between his residence and the land where such agricultural or horticultural activities take place.

What would be neat to know is whether or not he’s the original owner and is getting every cent out of it ! I’ve driven farm trucks like that to where you had to keep the windows down to let the exhaust fumes out that were coming up through the floor.
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Old 10-07-2021, 11:47 PM   #12
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I keep looking at it. Is it an optical illusion with no two panels on the same plane?
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Old 10-08-2021, 07:36 AM   #13
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It looks like the frame is broken. That's scary!
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Old 10-08-2021, 10:03 AM   #14
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It's got cool patina where the rust holes aren't. At least the drivers door is pretty well aligned. (As long as it's closed.)
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No, I can assure you that groceries doesn’t count. Hardware, yes. Been down that road. Like I said though, 9 out of 10 of Virginia’s finest won’t challenge ya unless it’s you really take advantage of it.
From the dmv website;
You are not required to register a vehicle (obtain license plates and decals) or pay a registration fee for any pickup or panel truck, sport utility vehicle, vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 7,500 pounds, trailer, or semitrailer used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes on lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner. Although registration is not required, such vehicles must be titled. This registration exemption applies only to vehicles that are not operated on or over any public highway for any purpose other than:
Crossing a highway;
Operating along a highway for a distance of no more than seventy-five (75) miles from one part of the owner's land to another, irrespective of whether the tracts adjoin;
Taking the vehicle or attached fixtures to and from a repair shop for repairs;
Taking another vehicle exempt from registration under any provision of Va. Code §§ 46.2-664 through 46.2-668 or § 46.2-672, or any part or subcomponent of such a vehicle, to or from a repair shop for repairs, including return trips;
Operating along a highway to and from a refuse disposal facility for the purpose of disposing of trash and garbage generated on a farm; or
Operating along a highway for a distance of no more than seventy-five (75) miles for the purpose of obtaining supplies for agricultural or horticultural purposes, seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, or animal feed. (Va. Code § 46.2-665)
Transporting the vehicle owner between his residence and the land where such agricultural or horticultural activities take place.

What would be neat to know is whether or not he’s the original owner and is getting every cent out of it ! I’ve driven farm trucks like that to where you had to keep the windows down to let the exhaust fumes out that were coming up through the floor.
There is another paragraph in those regs:

You are not required to register or pay a registration fee for any farm vehicle if the vehicle is making a return trip from any marketplace, transporting back to the farm ordinary and essential food and other products for home and farm use, or transporting farm supplies to the farm. (Va. Code § 46.2-673)

So he’s good.

I don’t know why there isn’t a paragraph in those regs regarding a requirement addressing the basic safety of the vehicle (specifically brakes)….

It would be interesting to get the history of the truck….
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Old 10-08-2021, 11:38 AM   #16
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I understand things can change over the years, but looking at the truck I would ask how does a C10 qualify for "Over 7500" GVWR.

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Old 10-08-2021, 03:06 PM   #18
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If y’all saw the mountain he travels up and down every day with hairpin turns and a 55 speed limit, you like me would think he’s apparently an excellent mechanic.
The rotting(?) of the bed mounts causing it to tip, is a relatively new issue. It does make it look like the frame is gone, but I don’t know how it could be with his traveling.
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Old 10-08-2021, 09:27 PM   #19
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It's got cool patina where the rust holes aren't. At least the drivers door is pretty well aligned. (As long as it's closed.)
That door is keeping it from folding up.
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It makes The Farm Truck (from the street outlaws) look pristine!!

I’ve never seen the lack of a license plate, like that, ever....to be on a road, some sort of a registered plate has to be on it. Oklahoma has farm use plates, not the Mr. Haney type, as pictured!!!!

I’d like to have it!!! Put a LS3 in it, and of course good brakes and all fundamentally proper safety items....

Looks like something, Too Much Stuff has at his house!!!!
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Old 10-09-2021, 12:16 PM   #21
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I don't know why, but the second I saw this old truck, I thought of this old flag! I love that song.
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And the truck looks like it falling apart "one piece at a time".


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I understand things can change over the years, but looking at the truck I would ask how does a C10 qualify for "Over 7500" GVWR.

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My thoughts exactly. My C20 door plate says 7500 is the most my truck rating could be (and is). If the reg says it must be "greater than 7500"... Have to be a C30 or larger???
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I’ve been trying to get a pic of this truck for awhile. I pass it on the road a lot, but haven’t caught it parked until today.
This is a farmers daily driver. He drives it at least 20 miles a day up a steep mountain and back down.
He really is using it for farm use, picking up groceries and hardware are where I’ve seen it, besides parked at his farm.
If ya ever get another chance, get some more pictures of this beast!!!

Thanks for this one great picture!!!
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I’ll be on the lookout. I don’t want to cause him any problems though.
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