Posted by Fixerupper on April 07, 2011 at 07:51:35 from (207.199.205.40):
In Reply to: Road Use posted by lgc on April 07, 2011 at 04:51:00:
In the area I live in here in NW Iowa a few farmers who don't want to mess with the rules and regulations of owning a truck use big wagons instead. The bigger wagons can hold 650 bushels apiece. That translates to 35,000 to 39,000 pounds of grain alone without adding the weight of the wagon. Most of them pull two wagons hooked together, bumping the total weight of wagons and tractor to 110,000 pounds or more. I've seen 113,000. These guys SHOULD PAY HEAVY ROAD USE TAXES! Here in Iowa a tandem axle semi can't be over 80,000. The wagons are over weight on the axles and have to follow the same weight laws as trucks, but they are rarely weighed by the DOT. One local farmer who pulls two of these big wagons regularly actually bragged to me that 'he can haul more than a truck'. And he was kind of sticking his chest out when he said it. In my area, every fall I hear of one or two of these wagons breaking an axle and dumping over in the ditch, or a hitch pin breaking and one or both wagons ending up in the ditch. They are not safe! I never hear of a truck breaking an axle and I can't remember of a semi losing the trailer though I'm sure it happens. Jim
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