PURPOSE: This rule, which includes portions of former rule 4 CSR 265-10.020, prescribes the content and manner of markings to be displayed on motor vehicles operated by motor carriers on public highways in interstate or intrastate commerce within the jurisdiction of the division.

Editor’s Note: The following material is incorporated into this rule by reference: 1) Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, part 1058. (Washington U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994). In accordance with section 536.031(4), RSMo, the full text of material incorporated by reference will be made available to any interested person at the Office of the Secretary of State and the headquarters of the adopting state agency.

1. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this rule, every motor carrier shall display markings on both sides of each vehicle operated under its own power on the public highways, under a certificate or permit issued by this division authorizing intrastate operations, which shall state the name or trade name of the motor carrier and the certificate or permit number assigned by this division, in the form required by this rule. In addition, every motor vehicle operated by a motor carrier under a lease shall include in these markings, above the carrier’s name, the words “Leased To” or “Operated By.” If a carrier has elected to license the trailer of a tractor-trailer combination, the markings also shall be displayed in the same manner on the trailer. These markings shall be in the following form:

   1. (A) “Leased To (Insert name or trade name of carrier) D.O.T. Mo. No. (insert certificate or permit number)”;
   2. (B) The prescribed markings shall be in letters and figures in sharp color contrast to the background, and shall be of sizes, shapes, colors and materials which are readily legible during daylight hours from a distance of fifty feet (50’) while the vehicle is not in motion. The motor carrier shall clean and repair the markings to keep them legible. The markings shall be made of paint or other reasonably permanent materials, and shall not be made of pencil, chalk or other substances which are easily erased. The motor carrier may use removable devices to display the prescribed markings, if they meet the identification and legibility requirements of this rule, and are designed not to detach from the vehicle during normal operation;
   3. (C) No persons shall operate or use in their operations any vehicle which displays any certificate or permit number issued by this division unless the vehicle is then owned by or under lease to the motor carrier holding that certificate or permit; and
   4. (D) Motor carriers shall remove or obliterate their certificate or permit numbers assigned by this division from the vehicle markings whenever the vehicle is discontinued from authorized service under their certificates or permits, and shall not operate or let any other person operate the vehicle on the public highways until these distinctive markings are obliterated or removed.
2. (2) Motor carriers transporting motor vehicles in driveaway or towaway operations may display the markings prescribed in section (1) of this rule on both sides or at the rear of a single driven vehicle. Motor carriers transporting a combination of vehicles in driveaway or towaway operations may display the prescribed markings on both sides of any one
3. (1) of the units comprising the combination, or at the rear of the rearmost unit of this combination.
4. (3) Every motor carrier operating vehicles exclusively in interstate commerce on the public highways in Missouri under a certificate or permit issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) shall comply with the vehicle identification and marking requirements of the ICC as published in Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, part 1058. Carriers operating a vehicle in Missouri in both interstate commerce under ICC authority and intrastate commerce under a certificate or permit issued by this division may comply with those ICC requirements for the vehicle, instead of complying with section (1) of this rule.
5. (4) Every motor carrier operating vehicles exclusively in interstate commerce on the public highways in Missouri under a permit issued by the division authorizing the interstate transportation of ICC-exempt commodities shall display markings on both sides of each vehicle operated under its own power, which shall state the name or trade name of the motor carrier, and either the certificate or permit number assigned by this division or the carrier’s valid identifying number issued by the United States Department of Transportation.
6. (5) Motor carriers of passengers in intrastate commerce operating vehicles having a capacity of twelve (12) passengers or less, excluding the driver, may display on the vehicle’s rear bumper, rear window or otherwise on the rear of the vehicle, the certificate or permit number assigned by this division to the motor carrier, which shall be marked in figures not less than two inches (2”) in height.

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo 1994.* Emergency rule filed Dec. 1, 1994, terminated Dec. 19, 1994. Emergency rule filed Dec. 20, 1994, effective Jan. 1, 1995, expired April 30, 1995. Emergency rule filed April 20, 1995, effective May 1, 1995, expired Aug. 28, 1995. Emergency rule filed Aug. 18, 1995, effective Aug. 29, 1995, expired Feb. 24, 1996. Original rule filed Aug. 3, 1995, effective Feb. 25, 1996. *Original authority 1985, amended 1993, 1995.