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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I'm talking about myself this time. Was driving through town and saw two JD A's on a trailer. Almost ran into the car in front while looking at the tractors. At the stop light I tried to snap a pic out the window of truck . I was too close to get a full pic. There should be warning signs on trailer when towing pulling tractors. geo
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Well i see one thing wrong in the picture , Chain hooks OUTSIDE the rub rail and exposed . Had a Diesel bear seen that the driver of said pulling tractors would be making new friends and give said Diesel Bear and excuse to start looking for more to add to his daily bag limit.
 
I go to tractor pulls and shows and you will see a lot of strange ways that people strap and chain down tractors.
 
D beaty,
It seems to my the YT police hand out more tickets than the cops. Why aren't the cops doing there job or do they have bigger fish to fry? It's very distracting seeing tractors when I'm driving. That should be against the law.

Someplace in my picture file, I have a pic of a guy pulling a backhoe, no chains or straps. Where are the cops???

geo
 
I seen one on I 75 in southern Georgia couple days ago. Nice mid sized compact tractor on a trailer. Loader bucket 3 foot in the air above the trailer with 2 cargo straps looped through the tractor to hold it down. I passed and got away from that guy as fast as I could.
 
Is the guy pulling the two JD tractors required to pull in weigh stations if he were traveling on Interstate? If so then he would be checked out by DOT?

I wonder why so many people aren't ticketed if they are breaking the law? geo
 
Thank you Tractor vet, I did not know about the hooks on the outside of the rub rail. What is the correct way to do it? thanks joe
 
(quoted from post at 12:40:54 06/29/16) D beaty,
It seems to my the YT police hand out more tickets than the cops. Why aren't the cops doing there job or do they have bigger fish to fry? It's very distracting seeing tractors when I'm driving. That should be against the law.

Someplace in my picture file, I have a pic of a guy pulling a backhoe, no chains or straps. Where are the cops???

geo
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My 20 years as a cop was spent in a city of just over 300,000 so we were not huge, but not Hooterville, either. We NEVER enforced trailer regs or state truck regs. We didn't even train on them or study them as they were not relevant to our jobs. As far as I know the Sheriff didn't either.

That was all left up to the state Highway Patrol and there are not very many of them to cover the whole state. So - there is not a lot of enforcement for anything but 18 wheelers.
 
(quoted from post at 07:28:15 06/29/16) Well i see one thing wrong in the picture , Chain hooks OUTSIDE the rub rail and exposed . Had a Diesel bear seen that the driver of said pulling tractors would be making new friends and give said Diesel Bear and excuse to start looking for more to add to his daily bag limit.
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I've hooked my chains that way for 15 years and have never been questioned. I would think on a 96" wide trailer they wouldn't be illegal....maybe on a 102" since they would exceed the max width. Of course I am farm, so (in this state anyway) I can go wider.
 
According to Federal Motor Safety Regulations you can chain to rub rail and depending on the circumstances you can hook over the outside of rub rail.
 
I think it depends on what state your in. I know that Ill says all trucks over 8 ton must cross scales.
 
Hook them through the stake pockets. I have run through the truck inspections with a load of farm equipment many times and have not been bothered by the law. It seems that in many states the law enforcement people do not go so hard on those trucking farm machinery.
 
There are only 10 scales in the state of Indiana and I know where they are and stay clear of them and getting stopped by portables is slim.
 
I was guilt of distracted driving today. I saw a late 40's early 50's hook and ladder firetruck on a stet deck on the should of the road. Wish I'd have been able to get a picture.

Rick
 
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