---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 396.1"
title: "49"
number: "396.1"
heading: "Scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/396.1"
---

# §396.1. Scope.

- (a) Every motor carrier, its officers, drivers, agents, representatives, and employees directly concerned with the inspection or maintenance of commercial motor vehicles must be knowledgeable of and comply with the rules of this part.
- (b) Every intermodal equipment provider, its officers, agents, representatives, and employees directly concerned with the inspection or maintenance of intermodal equipment interchanged or offered for interchange to motor carriers must be knowledgeable of and comply with the rules of this part.
- (c) This part does not apply to “covered farm vehicles,” as defined in [49 CFR 390.5](/cfr/49/390.5.md), or to the drivers of such vehicles.
- (d) The rules in this part do not apply to “pipeline welding trucks” as defined in [49 CFR 390.38(b)](/cfr/49/390.38.md?p=b).

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 76823, Dec. 17, 2008, as amended at 78 FR 16195, Mar. 14, 2013; 81 FR 47722, July 22, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 504, 31133, 31136, 31151, 31502; sec. 32934, Pub. L. 112-141, 126 Stat. 405, 830; sec. 5524, Pub. L. 114-94, 129 Stat. 1312, 1560; and 49 CFR 1.87.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 38526, July 2, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 76823, Dec. 17, 2008, as amended at 78 FR 16195, Mar. 14, 2013; 81 FR 47722, July 22, 2016]