Posted by JDseller on November 28, 2010 at 09:51:09 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Accident question posted by John S-B on November 28, 2010 at 08:08:30:
Why do you think the farmer was not there when the law showed up??? If he was left of center then he is liable for causing the accident. A farm equipment accident in Ohio that killed a State congressman"s son is why all equipment has extremity lighting now. If I was your friend I would try to find out who the farmer is and let her lawyer FIND out how good of insurance that farmer has!!!
WHY AM I MAD ABOUT THIS??? I Am a farmer and move a lot of wide equipment. I DO pull over to yield to traffic. Too many of the farmers around here think they are GOD and don"t have to yield to no one. They pay TAXES so the he!! with everyone else. Thanksgiving Day had to follow a a tractor and wagon for two miles as the Woman driving it would not use the berm,empty wagon too. Too much traffic to pass. Now the berm is twelve feet wide , graveled and maintained for farm traffic. I hear the farmers brag at the coffee shop about how they are not going to use the berm BECAUSE they pay taxes too and have the "Right" to use the pavement too. Have a neighbor that moves his combine with a thirty-five foot head. Does not even own a header trailer. Says it is the other people"s problem IF HE is blocking traffic.
I am waiting for enough non farm people to get fed up with that attitude and then watch as farmers have to have license and are limited in width. Some of the North east states are already limiting how wide farm equipment can be and not need escorts/lights.
Have family in Southern Ohio, Brown County. The sheriff has started writing tickets for overloaded weight on grain carts and wagons. They are destroying the paved county road. Breaking the shoulders off loading trucks setting in the road way.
It only takes a few idiots to make life hard on us all. I try to respect my fellow travelers. A small law change that makes us more liable would make life rough.
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