49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6) 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 fatsButterCanned fruits and vegetablesCarnauba wax as imported in slabs or chunksCattle, slaughteredCharcoalCheeseCoalCocoa beansCoffee, beans, roasted, or instantCopra mealCotton yarnCottonseed cake or mealDiatomaceous earthDinners, 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 FlagstoneFlaxseed mealFlour 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 GravelHair, hog or other animal, product of slaughter of animalHay, sweetened with 3 percent molasses by weightHemp fiberHides, green and saltedInsecticidesLimestone, agricultural Livestock:
Monkeys
Race horses
Show horses
Zoo animals Lumber, rough sawed or planedMaple 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, mintOil, extracted from vegetables, grain, seed, fish or other commodityPeltsPies, frozenPigeons, racingPulp, beetPulp, sugar caneRock (except natural crushed, vesicular rock to be used for decorative
purposes)Rubber, crude, in balesRubber, latex, natural, liquid, from which water has been extracted and
to which ammonia has been addedSand Seeds:
Oil extracted from seeds Skins, animalSoil, pottingSoil, topSoup, frozenSugarSugar cane pulpSugar rawSyrup, caneSyrup, mapleTea 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 countryWool tops and noilsWool 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 [53 FR 17707, May 18, 1988, as amended at 62 FR 15421, Apr. 1, 1997]