[AT] towing tractors with a pickup

[Aaron Dickinson]

My 88 year old cousin had been pulled over and the officer questioned his ability to drive and sent in a request/notice to the SOS that he be retested before renewing his license. He received paperwork to be filled out by his doctor and optometrist. I have been riding with him before, I prefer to drive😊

Aaron Dickinson
Mason, Michigan

From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 4:31 PM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [AT] towing tractors with a pickup

You don't have to have a driver's license to drive anything anywhere as long as you don't get stopped...  :-)  :-)  :-)
I don't recommend that... but I have known a few guys that have gone for years without a license. They don't make older drivers take a test here anymore but at one time they required both a written test and an in car driving test for older drivers. Many could not pass the testing (or just feared they couldn't) and just let it expire but kept driving. As long as they had the skills they never got stopped. Once they got stopped the police watched for them to be out. There was a lot of looking the other way unless they seemed dangerous.
They did away with those test both from claims of age discrimination and a complete lack of actuarial statistics proving that the older drivers were any more of a risk than the younger drivers. 
It turned out that the big problem was not the old drivers nor the teens but it was the road rage guys... They then started several state wide programs watching for and tracking "belligerent" drivers.

Indiana has the same drug problems as everyplace else but there is a huge amount of drugs that just cross the state, mostly from the south-east to the north. Almost all big cross country drug bust here are made out on the interstate highways or near an interchange and they are almost all because the driver did something really stupid like running more than 10 MPH over the limit or running a stop sign. The other dumb attack is the same one that nabs many drunk drivers, driving too slow...  :-)


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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 9:09 AM Steve W. <swilliams268 at frontier.com> wrote:
James Peck wrote:
> Does the implements of husbandry exemption allow people without
> drivers licenses to operate farm tractors on the highways?
> 

In NY at least you don't need a license for any farm equipment as long 
as it has the SMV sign on it. Just like the Amish don't have drivers 
licenses to operate their buggies because they are exempt.

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