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North Central Indiana | Trucking “LLC’s” are busted easily the way most farms operate. Not nearly as simple as a sticker on the truck that says “X farms trucking, llc” and having an llc that files taxes for fuel expenses and buys insurance. Been a while but I talked about it in another thread on the topic.
To be in compliance you would need commercial plates, commercial insurance, only CDL drivers, correct DOT numbers and registration, follow weight restrictions, documented payments from the farm to the trucking company for hauling, and reasonable expenses through the llc for fuel/maintenance and wages. Anything less than that and a good lawyer would be picking over everything you own anyway. The ones I know that are set up well have gone as far as leasing trucks from the farm to the trucking llc and paying all “profit” the llc has to the truck drivers employed by the llc. In this scenario there is literally nothing to be had if you kill someone on the road other than your insurance coverage and needing a new LLC. But that kind of begs the question, are we just setting it up to protect ourselves or to be able to take reasonable responsibility for an accident causing major injuries or death without losing everything.
Edited by JRCS Farms 5/2/2026 08:22
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Stupid LLC?
