This will be my final post in this matter. First of all, I was driving textbook correct, legal or otherwise. The guy on the tractor driving 15 on a highway with a posted speed limit of 65 was in the wrong. I’m really surprised the thread hasn’t been pulled. It has really gotten out of hand. Some have acted like children. You know anyone that has followed the story realizes you are trying to make me out to be the villain because the idea may impact your operations with legislation eventually, because I’m not alone. In reality if this topic isn’t discussed it may come to that. Moving agriculture equipment on our nations highways is inherently dangerous. All that it would take is someone important to hit a tractor and it would be all over the news. The next step would be laws restricting it. If this equipment is going to be on the highway there needs to be some system developed to inform the public. You can’t expect someone that is not a farmer to know when harvest season is nor when you are moving equipment from one farm to another. When the county is mowing the highway near where I live, they put up a sign warning people to watch for mowers. Perhaps if someone was moving 14 tractors from one farm to another they could just put up a sign warning the public that equipment is on the highway. I still believe if a person is moving one tractor it should be trucked. Back to my initial story, if there were a sign warning about equipment on the highway I would definitely not have come over that hill at 65 mph. As I stated in my initial story I had a fraction of a second to decide to run off the road and hit a tree, hit the tractor or pass him. Obviously I didn’t like being put in that position because he couldn’t take the time to put the tractor on a trailer and move it. Over my lifetime I’ve been held up many times by tractors on the highways. It’s only a minor inconvenience and I don’t mind as long as I know their there.
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