California Truck Insurance

372.115 Commodities that are not exempt under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6).

49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(5) provides an exemption from regulation for motor vehicles used in carrying ordinary livestock, fish, and unmanufactured agricultural commodities. Certain specific commodities have been statutorily determined to be non-exempt. Administrative Ruling No. 133, which is reproduced below, is a list of those commodities that are non-exempt by statute.

ADMINISTRATIVE RULING NO. 133

LIST OF COMMODITIES THAT ARE NOT EXEMPT BY STATUTE UNDER 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)

 

• Animal fats
• Butter
• Canned fruits and vegetables
• Carnauba wax as imported in slabs or chunks
• Cattle, slaughtered
• Charcoal
• Cheese
• Coal
• Cocoa beans
• Coffee, beans, roasted, or instant
• Copra meal
• Cotton yarn
• Cottonseed cake or meal
• Diatomaceous earth
• Dinners, frozen

• Feeds:
• Alfalfa meal
• Alfalfa pellets
• Beet pulp
• Bran shorts
• Copra meal
• Corn gluten
• Distilled corn grain residues, with or without solubles added
• Fish meal
• Hominy feed
• Middlings
• Pelletized ground refuse screenings
• Wheat bran
• Wheat shorts

• Fertilizer, commercial
• Fish:

  • Canned or salted as a treatment for preserving

    Cooked or partially cooked fish or shrimp, frozen or unfrozen

    Hermetically sealed in containers as a treatment for preserving

    Oil from fishes

    Preserved, or treated for preserving, such as smoked, salted, pickled, spiced, corned or kippered

• Flagstone

  Flaxseed meal

  Flour

• Forest products:
  • Resin products, such as turpentine
• Fruits and Berries:

  • Bananas, fresh, dried, dehydrated, or frozen

    Canned

    Frozen

    Hulls of oranges after juice extractions

    Juice, fruit, plain or concentrated

    Pies, frozen

    Preserved, such as jam

    Purees, strawberry and other, frozen

• Grains:

  • Oils extracted from grain

    Popcorn, popped

    Rice, precooked

    Wheat germ

• Gravel

  Hair, hog or other animal, product of slaughter of animal

  Hay, sweetened with 3 percent molasses by weight

  Hemp fiber

  Hides, green and salted

  Insecticides

  Limestone, agricultural

• Livestock:

  • Monkeys

    Race horses

    Show horses

    Zoo animals

• Lumber, rough sawed or planed

  Maple syrup

• Meal:

  • Alfalfa

    Copra

    Cottonseed

    Fish

    Flaxseed

    Linseed

    Peanut

    Soybean

• Meat and meat products, fresh, frozen or canned
• Milk and Cream:

  • Chocolate

    Condensed

    Sterilized in hermetically sealed cans

• Molasses
• Nuts (including peanuts):

  • Peanut meal

    Roasted or boiled

• Oil, mint

• Oil, extracted from vegetables, grain, seed, fish or other commodity

  Pelts

  Pies, frozen

  Pigeons, racing

  Pulp, beet

  Pulp, sugar cane

  Rock (except natural crushed, vesicular rock to be used for decorative purposes)

  Rubber, crude, in bales

  Rubber, latex, natural, liquid, from which water has been extracted and to which ammonia has been added

• Sand
• Seeds:
  • Oil extracted from seeds

• Skins, animal

  Soil, potting

  Soil, top

  Soup, frozen

  Sugar

  Sugar cane pulp

  Sugar raw

  Syrup, cane

  Syrup, maple

  Tea

• Tobacco:

  • Cigars and cigarettes

    Homogenized

    Smoking

• Top Soil
• Trees:
  • Sawed into lumber
• Vegetables:

  • Candied sweet potatoes, frozen

    Canned

    Cooked

    French fried potatoes

    Oil, extracted from vegetables

    Soup, frozen

    Soybean meal

• Wool imported from a foreign country

  Wool tops and noils

  Wool waste (carded, spun, woven, or knitted)

  Wool yarn

 

NOTE 1: Under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(D), any listed fish or shellfish product that is not intended for human consumption is exempt .

 

NOTE 2: Under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(E), any listed livestock feed, poultry feed, agricultural seeds, or plants that are transported to a site of agricultural production or to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural producers of goods used in agricultural production is exempt