[AT] FW: towing tractors with a pickup

[Steve W.]

Grant Brians wrote:
> 
> James, in California (not exactly the least urban state) there is a very 
> specific section of the vehicle code that covers this and eliminates the 
> tickets unnecessarily being written - it is called "Implements of 
> Husbandry". The requirement is that the trailer or other farm machinery 
> being transported on a road must have a SMV placard facing rearward. 
> With this proviso, tractors, harvesters, trailers, tillage implements, 
> farm trailers, etc. can be moved on the road and normal width and other 
> limitations are almost all waived. Longtime members of the list will 
> remember my story of towing the 15' 10" wide Mower-conditioner I bought 
> back in 1982 being towed on US101 and the clueless CHP officers who had 
> to call SACRAMENTO to confirm what was in the vehicle code. It was 
> pretty hilarious to listen to the radio traffic that took place for them 
> to learn what they should have learned before entering a car.
>      I will note that since the section was written, in the 1990's there 
> was a limitation added - no more than 25 miles at a time on an 
> Interstate highway.
>              Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of vegetables, 
> edible flowers, herbs and other crops
> 

Pretty much the same in NY and most states I believe. As long as you're 
not doing something real stupid or destructive they won't bother you 
normally.

-- 
Steve W.