I don't normally spout off but in this case you don't know what the heck your talking about.
I know that area and have traveled that road, it parallels a river to the south and in some parts there is no access to fields except from that road
If you look at the map I provided Hwy 961 used to be the old 2 lane hwy, the new 4 lane road cut right thru those farms leaving the farmers no choice but the drive down that 4 lane road to access their fields, how else are they going to get to them.
It's sad anytime someones injured or killed in a accident but blaming the farmer for even being on that road is ludicrous.
Looking at the photo the guy was driving a late model cab tractor that would have had proper warning lights mounted at the top of the cab, "weather they were turned on or not I don't know", one can also clearly see the slow moving vehicle triangle mounted on the rakes frame, so he had taken proper precautions to warn others of his slow moving equipment.
Looking at the oil dry put down it appears he was in the right hand lane where he should have been, unfortunately we'll never know why she didn't move over to the left lane and pass the farmer.
It is true that farmers don't pay highway fuel tax on ag fuel, but most of them also own trucks to haul their equipment and farm products on, those trucks are charged a flat rate tax for every mile they are driven and also pay a federal highway fuel tax of $.38 pre gallon plus what ever the state charges. This amounts to thousands of dollars per year in highway use and fuel taxes paid by farmers, so if they need to drive that piece of ag equipment down a highway to access a field I think they've paid for it.
As for that farmer that won't fold up his cultivator, Call the law and complain, he's in the wrong and should be fined.
One more thing and I'm done.
A few years ago one of the trucks from the mill I worked at was delivering a load of lumber, the road they where on was small and he was about a mile from his delivery point, driver stated he was being safe traveling at 45 mph "with in the legal min limits", a guy in a car doing 65 mph "he admitted he was traveling that speed" slammed square into the rear of the truck on a straight stretch of road, he claimed he never saw the truck.
So was it the trucks fault for only doing 45 on a 55 mph road or for just being on the road period.
That appears to be the way some of you are looking at the farmer and his tractor, his fault for simply being there.
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