[AT] Towing

[charlie hill]

Farmer,  the law allows you to take a road tractor that any truck driver 
would be required to have a CDL to drive, build a camper on the back of it, 
title it as a RV and drive it with a class C license and no training.   It's 
crazy.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: [AT] Towing


> In Indiana it is legal to tow a trailer with a rear hitch
> and to tow another trailer behind that. I am not sure of
> the law changes that allow that, just that they started
> appearing one day and are said to be legal. I was wondering
> how universal that might be across the country and if any
> states expressly forbid it. Most often it is a vehicle that
> is pulling a travel trailer and then has a boat trailer
> behind that.
> It seems a little funny that someone can hit the road with
> a 130 foot motor home pulling two trailers behind it but if
> I were to hang 3 empty farm wagons behind a tractor and
> start down a back road at 10 MPH with it I can be stopped
> and ticketed...
> I got to thinking about this because I want to go to a
> plow day about 40 miles away and I thought about putting
> the plow on a small trailer behind the bigger trailer. If I
> thought that there would be a loader or forklift there I
> would just sit the plow on the truck or crosswise on one
> end of the bigger trailer using my loader. My S-MTA Farmall
> that I would likely take does not have a 3-point lift or I
> could use a 3 point boom I have..
>
>
>
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>
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