Semi hits mowing crew tractor

[Soundguy]

More than likely, if there mowing practices are anything like here in florida, the tractor has to pull on and off the road many times throughout the day to get around signs, etc. As a slow moving vehicle, he should be afforded right of way.
More than likely, the semi truck driver wasn't paying as much attention as he should have been.. or he wouldn't have been in the lane closest to the tractor. I'm surprised that threat avoidance courses aren't mandatory for the cdl licenses.. they even teach that stuff in drivers ed these days.

Either way.. glad the drivers were unhurt.

Soundguy

<font color=blue>and hit a southbound John Deere tractor driven by Black, which was on the right shoulder of the highway, partly on the road.

<font color=red>This portion of the story does not sound good for the tractor driver or the state.

 

[Jeff396]

With the way traffic is lately, it's darn near impossible to get out of the right lane unless you have plenty of notice. Imagine how much harder it is towing a 40 footer. You're lucky if the cars in the left lane are leaving much more than a car space between them while going 80 mph. Of course you could put a turn signal on but that usually just causes the traffic in the left lane to tighten up even more.....especially when it's a semi. I drove a semi for a while and I don't wish to go back to it what with the way traffic is now a days. I just took a trip from SC to FL last week. I don't think I was hardly able to use the cruise control there was so much traffic. This all especially applies to the east coast.

Jeff