Creamer
Elite Member
Yes, tractors are cheaper than trucks and wheel loaders, more versatile, no road taxes and much easier and cheaper to get a drivers license so you can find drivers quite easy.
And they dont go so much slower than truks, many reaches almost 60 km/h and when working speed dosent matter that much.
That is quite a combination of incentives. It all makes sense.
We have seen a lot more high speed tractors coming into the US and even our "standard" ag tractors go much faster. Probably for a lot of the same reasons - I just had not thought of it that way. Some of it is just because farms have grown requiring a lot more road time to get to and from fields. I know one farmer out in the Dakotas and Montana that has acreage spread over 600 miles (1000 km) and roads all of his equipment because it is too large to break down an haul.