Trucking

MnDOT METR interactive e-learning tool

Provides contractors with an understanding of the state truck rental rates and how to properly complete a month-end trucking report.

State truck rental rates

The hourly truck rental rate is comprised of two components:

Operating cost
Prevailing wage

Truck rental rates are minimum hourly compensation requirements established by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry through an annual survey process.

A contractor or subcontractor that hires an Independent Truck Owner/Operator (ITO), Multiple Truck Owner (MTO), Trucking Company and/or Truck Broker to perform and/or provide covered hauling activities under a contract that is funded in whole or in part with state funds must comply with the payment of the appropriate State Truck Rental rates.

Hauling activities of material to and from a construction project

Any business entity that delivers materials or products to and from a public works project that is funded in whole or in part with state and/or federal funds is subject to the prevailing wage specifications incorporated into a contract.

Hauling activities are subject to the state prevailing wage law

The hauling of any or all stockpiled or excavated materials on the project work site to other locations on the same project even if the truck leaves the work site at some point
The delivery of materials from a facility that does not meet the requirements of a commercial establishment to the project and the return haul to the starting location either empty or loaded
The delivery of materials from another construction project site to the public works project and the return haul empty or loaded
The hauling required to remove any materials from the public works project to a location off the project site and the return haul if empty or loaded from other than a commercial establishment
The delivery of materials or products by trucks hired by a contractor, subcontractor, or agent thereof, from a commercial establishment
The delivery of sand, gravel, or rock, by or for a commercial establishment, which is deposited substantially in place, either directly or through spreaders from the transporting vehicle
The delivery of material from a prime contractor's off-site material operation that is not a separate commercial establishment to the public works project and the return haul empty or loaded
Commercial establishment’s trucks that deposit mineral aggregate on the project site of work substantially in place (PDF) from a commercial establishment.

Hauling activities are subject to the federal prevailing wage law

The delivery of material from an immediately adjacent, dedicated off-site facility to the project and the return haul empty or loaded
The hauling of any or all stockpiled or excavated materials on the project work site to other locations on the same project even if the truck leaves the work site at some point

Hauling activities are exempt from prevailing wage

Pursuant with state regulations

Business entity that is considered a commercial establishment that delivers or hires trucks to deliver its materials or products from an off-site facility to the project site of work is exempt from the state prevailing wage requirements.
Trucks, from a commercial establishment, which stockpile deposit mineral aggregate on the project site that will later be moved. The stockpile site is not considered to be part of the project work.

Pursuant with federal regulations

A business entity that delivers materials or products to or from an off-site facility that is not immediately adjacent and dedicated to the public works project is not subject the federal prevailing wage requirements.