[AT] DOT Question--officer statement

[charlie hill]

That's kind of hard to do with a 22' disc on a 24' wide road.  I know a guy 
who has always been a farm equipment operator and usually works for a farmer 
right down the road a ways.  Around here farms kinda blend in with towns and 
subdivisions which means lots of time spent with the tractor on the road and 
lines of mad yuppies behind.  This guy is a great farm worker but he can't 
take the stress of moving the equipment on the highway and every few years 
he quits for a while until the pain of being broke overpowers his memory of 
moving equipment.

Charlie

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:27 AM
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> ...If the trooper knows the law.  When I was in college, home on spring
> break several years ago, probably '94 or '95, I was having lunch w/ my
> grandmother before going back to the field.  (I spent my spring breaks
> farming, not on the beach and I liked it that way!)  The local TV news
> was doing a story about how there would be more farm machinery moving on
> the highway and what to do.  They interviewed a NC State Trooper and he
> said that a wide piece of equipment had to stay on their side of the
> road, not across the yellow line!  I nearly fell out of my chair!!!
> Goes back to my earlier comment.....ask three officers the same
> question, get three different answers.  Unless you're talking about
> speeding or DWI....
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:01 AM
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>
> Unless the law has been changed recently and I missed it, farm equipment
> in
> North Carolina has the right of way except on Interstates and Limited
> Access
> Freeways.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at mchsi.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:21 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] DOT Question--officer statement
>
>
>> Never heard that one before, of course kind of hard to argue with a 20
> ft
>> combing on the road, or a 8000 lb tractor, :))
>>
>> Paul W
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
>> Edchainsaw at aol.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:06 PM
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>>
>> In a message dated 12/26/2006 12:18:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
>> [AT] DOT Question
>>
>>
>> In addition, in general if you ask three different enforcement
> officers
>> in a given state the exact same question regarding DOT regulations,
> you
>> will usually get three different answers.  Awful hard to insure you're
>> following the rules in situations like that.....
>>
>>
>> THIS is so  true...    we were talking to  a  local business man that
> 2
>> yrs
>>
>> ago was a  deputy.
>> He  was complaining about   the wreck he  caused ( he was speeding)
> He
>> says
>> 35 aint to fast (it is in a 30mph zone)  but any how   he was
> complaining
>> about   farm equipment  widths .   We made the statement  that  in
>> INDIANA
>>
>> farm equipment  still has   the right of way on  Indiana  roads (not
>> interstattes
>> of course)    He just said  thats  BULL****.    well  he  was wrong .
> A
>> relative of  ours   was  the Atturney for the state  and he's  the one
>
>> that
>> told us that.
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