Inconsiderate drivers and tractor operators, bad mix...

[Jstpssng]

Y’all wouldn’t believe our roads. They’re like wagon trails with some pavement and little paint markings. And we have @ssclowns pouring in here from NY and Philly. Just a matter of time until I’m roading between fields and someone hits me.

And they drive big Navigators because they feel safer if they crash.

That one has always made me wonder... what about the person they hit?

 

[ruffdog]

It's illegal to pass a vehicle at an intersection in Indiana.

Same here.....and you can NOT pass farm equipment in a no-pass-zone.

 

[4570Man]

I think one big problem nobody wants to address is how big tractors have gotten back when it was decided tractors could use the road with little consequence what was the size of most tractors? Now you have machines 14’ wide driving down roads meant for under 8’6” foot wide loads.

Agreed. As far as I’m concerned farmers should be held to the same standard as everyone else. Construction guys would be thrown under the jail for the crap farmers get by with.

 

[LouNY]

Agreed. As far as I’m concerned farmers should be held to the same standard as everyone else. Construction guys would be thrown under the jail for the crap farmers get by with.

Yep and those dang fool automobile machines should still have have someone walking in front of them with a red lantern.

 

[Hay Dude]

I think one big problem nobody wants to address is how big tractors have gotten back when it was decided tractors could use the road with little consequence what was the size of most tractors? Now you have machines 14 wide driving down roads meant for under 8? foot wide loads.

Probably because its too difficult and expensive to use eminent domain to widen roads move back utility poles.
The country has changed. Sadly, Small family farms using small equipment have been replaced by corporate farms using much larger equipment because food is very cheap and a host of other reasons.
The states and counties left the roads the same.
My widest piece of equipment is 11’-6”. I can keep it in one lane 99.5% of the time.
I wish I could say the same for cars and foreign nationals driving 25,999 GVWR trucks that can’t read what’s printed on a road sign.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^ I have one like that. Self entitled is an understatement. Has had more than one wreck including a near-rollover and a couple of road runoffs. So far, it's only been her, no other vehicles involved. Did some time for embezzlement too, but got out early. That didn't do anything to clip her wings.

Knew a highly decorated retired WWII fighter Ace that owned the section of road used by a development years after he bought... it was one parcel and divided into 5...

Well the quiet road became a race track and he lost livestock and his dog to speeders...

One day he lost it... was up on the roof doing repairs and the teen that killed his dog raced by flipping him off... old Commander threw his hammer and in slow motion it went through the windshield...

The kids old man was a Doctor and police called...

The short of it was that kid never speeded again... no one ever stood up to him... years later he even apologized....

Pretty risky but the Commander said I didn't fight on two fronts to be terrorized by a punk kid on my own property...

 

[mred2]

Everyday I pull onto the highway from my drive in my suv. I look both way. I am on top of a hill. There is a curve in the road about 800 yards away. The speed limit is 55. Almost everyday there will be a car on my backend by the time I get up to speed. I will be running 60 to 65 and they will past me in the next curve on a bridge. I am just waiting to someday hit the ditch and watch a head on, in front of me. At least 2 times a week, I will have a car on a side road, pull out in front of me and I have to slam on my brakes. The kids today drive just like their parents do.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Speaking of construction. It is amazing how permits, escorts and such are often required for loads that don't even pose a threat to the motoring public, and then the huge agricultural equipment has no restrictions for the most part. BIGGEST problem, I beleive, is that you are never sure what they are going to do. Is he going to turn any minute or drive another ten miles down the road? In my mind, THAT should be somehow addressed.

 

[5030]

Probably because its too difficult and expensive to use eminent domain to widen roads move back utility poles.
The country has changed. Sadly, Small family farms using small equipment have been replaced by corporate farms using much larger equipment because food is very cheap and a host of other reasons.
The states and counties left the roads the same.
My widest piece of equipment is 11’-6”. I can keep it in one lane 99.5% of the time.
I wish I could say the same for cars and foreign nationals driving 25,999 GVWR trucks that can’t read what’s printed on a road sign.

I love the 'Foreign National' comment. Don't you know that is why the Federal DOT really did away with log books and went to E-logs. They did it because those 'Foreign Nationals cannot read or write in English. Before I retired from my day job at a Freightliner dealership, I had a total bellyfull of those 'Foreign Nationals.. We had other names for them that I cannot post on here.

 

[5030]

Speaking of construction. It is amazing how permits, escorts and such are often required for loads that don't even pose a threat to the motoring public, and then the huge agricultural equipment has no restrictions for the most part. BIGGEST problem, I beleive, is that you are never sure what they are going to do. Is he going to turn any minute or drive another ten miles down the road? In my mind, THAT should be somehow addressed.

Really. I think you should leave earlier and slow down a bit and drive pro actively too. Sounds to me like you are part of the problem and not part of the solution.