One of my pet peeves! When I was working as a NYSP DOT Insp one of my duties was police for overweight trucks. I made the mistake of thinking on my own and realizing that we were told trucks were only "safe" up to a certain weight. After that death and destruction of our roadways was certain to follow...UNLESS the trucker paid the State a certain amount of $$$ and then the truck was suddenly safe again!!! After that I didn't get super excited about the guy that a bit over. Yeah, the guy running down the road in a 5 axle rig at 137K was obviously going to get some attention, but it wasn't something I was going to froth at the mouth over.
One of the other things that I found mind boggling was the people that would gripe about the Amish leaving marks on the road with their steel wheeled vehicles and shod horses that were often the same people hauling liquid manure with a combination that would have scaled well over 100K that never gave a thought to the culverts they crushed, to say nothing of what the articulated tractors were doing as they turned on the pavement.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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