{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-372.115","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 372.115","heading":"Commodities that are not exempt under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6).","body":"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.\nAdministrative Ruling No. 133\nList of Commodities That Are Not Exempt by Statute Under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)\nAnimal fats\nButter\nCanned fruits and vegetables\nCarnauba wax as imported in slabs or chunks\nCattle, slaughtered\nCharcoal\nCheese\nCoal\nCocoa beans\nCoffee, beans, roasted, or instant\nCopra meal\nCotton yarn\nCottonseed cake or meal\nDiatomaceous earth\nDinners, frozen\nFeeds:\nAlfalfa meal\nAlfalfa pellets\nBeet pulp\nBran shorts\nCopra meal\nCorn gluten\nDistilled corn grain residues, with or without solubles added\nFish meal\nHominy feed\nMiddlings\nPelletized ground refuse screenings\nWheat bran\nWheat shorts\nFertilizer, commercial\nFish:\nCanned or salted as a treatment for preserving\nCooked or partially cooked fish or shrimp, frozen or unfrozen\nHermetically sealed in containers as a treatment for preserving\nOil from fishes\nPreserved, or treated for preserving, such as smoked, salted, pickled, spiced, corned or kippered\nFlagstone\nFlaxseed meal\nFlour\nForest products:\nResin products, such as turpentine\nFruits and Berries:\nBananas, fresh, dried, dehydrated, or frozen\nCanned\nFrozen\nHulls of oranges after juice extractions\nJuice, fruit, plain or concentrated\nPies, frozen\nPreserved, such as jam\nPurees, strawberry and other, frozen\nGrains:\nOils extracted from grain\nPopcorn, popped\nRice, precooked\nWheat germ\nGravel\nHair, hog or other animal, product of slaughter of animal\nHay, sweetened with 3 percent molasses by weight\nHemp fiber\nHides, green and salted\nInsecticides\nLimestone, agricultural\nLivestock:\nMonkeys\nRace horses\nShow horses\nZoo animals\nLumber, rough sawed or planed\nMaple syrup\nMeal:\nAlfalfa\nCopra\nCottonseed\nFish\nFlaxseed\nLinseed\nPeanut\nSoybean\nMeat and meat products, fresh, frozen or canned\nMilk and Cream:\nChocolate\nCondensed\nSterilized in hermetically sealed cans\nMolasses\nNuts (including peanuts):\nPeanut meal\nRoasted or boiled\nOil, mint\nOil, extracted from vegetables, grain, seed, fish or other commodity\nPelts\nPies, frozen\nPigeons, racing\nPulp, beet\nPulp, sugar cane\nRock (except natural crushed, vesicular rock to be used for decorative purposes)\nRubber, crude, in bales\nRubber, latex, natural, liquid, from which water has been extracted and to which ammonia has been added\nSand\nSeeds:\nOil extracted from seeds\nSkins, animal\nSoil, potting\nSoil, top\nSoup, frozen\nSugar\nSugar cane pulp\nSugar raw\nSyrup, cane\nSyrup, maple\nTea\nTobacco:\nCigars and cigarettes\nHomogenized\nSmoking\nTop Soil\nTrees:\nSawed into lumber\nVegetables:\nCandied sweet potatoes, frozen\nCanned\nCooked\nFrench fried potatoes\nOil, extracted from vegetables\nSoup, frozen\nSoybean meal\nWool imported from a foreign country\nWool tops and noils\nWool waste (carded, spun, woven, or knitted)\nWool yarn\nNote 1:\nUnder 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(D), any listed fish or shellfish product that is not intended for human consumption is exempt.\nNote 2:\nUnder 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","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER III—FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","SUBCHAPTER B—FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATIONS","PART 372—EXEMPTIONS, COMMERCIAL ZONES, AND TERMINAL AREAS","Subpart A—Exemptions"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"34af86fcbf4a029da41f3b5d2e2b5f21477a3ab8170cd900e93985db83ae4588","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-372.113","next":"us/49-cfr-372.117"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}